{"id":27894,"date":"2024-09-14T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27894"},"modified":"2024-09-14T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:24:59","slug":"drought-expanded-ahead-of-francine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/09\/drought-expanded-ahead-of-francine\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought expanded ahead of Francine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday morning, shows that drought has expanded across most of the western part of our region due to heat and lack of rainfall. A small sliver of extreme (D3) drought was identified in northern Alabama and many areas of drought jumped up a category, while there were just a few small areas of improvement. The cutoff date for the map was on Tuesday when Hurricane Francine was still approaching the coast of Louisiana, so I expect there to be more improvement on next week&#8217;s map due to the rain from Francine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/09\/dm-20240910_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/09\/dm-20240910_southeast_none.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/09\/dm-20240910_southeast_none.png 816w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/09\/dm-20240910_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/09\/dm-20240910_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/09\/dm-20240910_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor, released on Thursday morning, shows that drought has expanded across most of the western part of our region due to heat and lack of rainfall. A small sliver of extreme (D3) drought was identified in northern Alabama and many areas of drought jumped up a category, while there were just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":27895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27894","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\/27894","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27896,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27894\/revisions\/27896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}