{"id":27577,"date":"2024-06-22T23:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27577"},"modified":"2024-06-22T23:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:21:32","slug":"big-changes-in-drought-status-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/06\/big-changes-in-drought-status-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Big changes in drought status this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The heavy rain that fell across southern Florida this past week led to the end of drought conditions across that area, in some cases improving conditions by three categories. The rest of the region received little rain and a lot of heat and there was a significant expansion of abnormally dry (D0) conditions in the other states, especially Virginia and eastern North Carolina. This is likely to continue in next week&#8217;s map and could turn into moderate drought since temperatures continue to be high and rain will be relatively light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/dm-20240618_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/dm-20240618_southeast_none.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27578\" style=\"width:836px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/dm-20240618_southeast_none.png 816w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/dm-20240618_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/dm-20240618_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/dm-20240618_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024-1536x1187.png 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/06\/current_rcc_southeast_chng_6-22-2024-2048x1583.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy rain that fell across southern Florida this past week led to the end of drought conditions across that area, in some cases improving conditions by three categories. The rest of the region received little rain and a lot of heat and there was a significant expansion of abnormally dry (D0) conditions in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":27579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577","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=27577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27580,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27577\/revisions\/27580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}