{"id":29650,"date":"2026-01-29T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29650"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:37:32","slug":"slight-increases-in-drought-this-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/01\/slight-increases-in-drought-this-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Slight increases in drought this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that drought got a little worse this week for some parts of the region. The biggest increase in drought was in northern Florida, where I understand blueberry producers are worried about having enough water for irrigation for frost protection in this weekend&#8217;s cold weather. The biggest improvement is in northwestern Alabama, which received some much-needed rain in the last week. There was no change in the abnormally dry conditions in Puerto Rico this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/01\/dm-20260127_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"816\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/01\/dm-20260127_southeast_none.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/01\/dm-20260127_southeast_none.png 816w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/01\/dm-20260127_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/01\/dm-20260127_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/01\/dm-20260127_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 today, shows that drought got a little worse this week for some parts of the region. The biggest increase in drought was in northern Florida, where I understand blueberry producers are worried about having enough water for irrigation for frost protection in this weekend&#8217;s cold weather. The biggest improvement is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29650","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\/29650","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=29650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29652,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions\/29652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}