{"id":274,"date":"2014-06-13T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=274"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:12:28","slug":"wet-spring-across-most-of-southeast-temps-slightly-cooler-than-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/06\/wet-spring-across-most-of-southeast-temps-slightly-cooler-than-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet spring across most of Southeast; temps slightly cooler than average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national summary of spring conditions has just been released by NOAA.\u00a0 The climate division maps show that for most of the Southeast, conditions were much wetter than normal, particularly in SW Georgia, southern Alabama and the panhandle of Florida.\u00a0 In fact, in northwest FL, they experienced their second wettest spring ever, with 25.25 inches.\u00a0 The record is 26.02 inches set in 1991.\u00a0 Temperatures were somewhat cooler than normal, mainly due to the effects of the extra clouds and rainy conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-precip-anomalies-by-cd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-275\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-precip-anomalies-by-cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-precip-anomalies-by-cd.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-precip-anomalies-by-cd-189x138.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-temp-anomalies-by-cd.jpg\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-temp-anomalies-by-cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-temp-anomalies-by-cd.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/06\/spring-2014-temp-anomalies-by-cd-189x138.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise to farmers who have had to deal with the wet and cloudy conditions which delayed planting and slowed plant growth.\u00a0 Some farmers are still dealing with planting at this late date, although recent drier weather has helped to catch up on field work.\u00a0 Fungal diseases are also an issue in some crops this year.<\/p>\n<p>For the complete report on spring conditions across the country, click <a title=\"Spring 2014 national report\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/national\/2014\/5\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national summary of spring conditions has just been released by NOAA.\u00a0 The climate division maps show that for most of the Southeast, conditions were much wetter than normal, particularly in SW Georgia, southern Alabama and the panhandle of Florida.\u00a0 In fact, in northwest FL, they experienced their second wettest spring ever, with 25.25 inches.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}