{"id":29806,"date":"2026-03-22T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29806"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:43:36","slug":"noaas-spring-outlook-drought-forecasted-to-expand-in-u-s-west-parts-of-plains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/03\/noaas-spring-outlook-drought-forecasted-to-expand-in-u-s-west-parts-of-plains\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA’s Spring Outlook: Drought forecasted to expand in U.S. West, parts of Plains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this week, NOAA released their official spring outlook for climate conditions across the country. It shows that drought is expected to expand in the western US as well as parts of the Plains over the next three months. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, their forecast shows a good chance of improving conditions over some of the driest areas in the southern part of the region, although drought may persist in more northern areas. You can read their discussion at https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/spring-outlook-drought-forecasted-to-expand-in-us-west-parts-of-plains<\/a>. The monthly and seasonal outlook maps are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier this week, NOAA released their official spring outlook for climate conditions across the country. It shows that drought is expected to expand in the western US as well as parts of the Plains over the next three months. Fortunately for us in the Southeast, their forecast shows a good chance of improving conditions over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-outlooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29806","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=29806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29812,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29806\/revisions\/29812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}