{"id":29881,"date":"2026-04-16T22:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29881"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:16:14","slug":"north-carolina-upcoming-drought-webinar-april-23-at-11-am-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/04\/north-carolina-upcoming-drought-webinar-april-23-at-11-am-et\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina upcoming drought webinar April 23 at 11 am ET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina is hosting a webinar this coming Thursday to discuss the latest information about the drought that is affecting the Southeast. While it will focus on North Carolina, I expect that the general information about how the drought began and how it is evolving will be of interest to us all in the Southeast and so I plan to attend. You can find more information or register using the link in the image below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table caes-extended-core-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/ecp.yusercontent.com\/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9p4p.mjt.lu%2Fimg2%2Fs9p4p%2F5af115e6-7dde-4002-b12f-4a2ee12994e2%2Fcontent&amp;t=1776391357&amp;ymreqid=cd5ec4f2-e7df-3017-1c4d-fe04e3011d00&amp;sig=ferXh_dix6g4TqDMiiQyXw--~D\" alt=\"An infographic about the upcoming extreme drought webinar\"><br>Our cool-season drought has now stretched into the warm season, pushing it to extreme levels with visible impacts across North Carolina ranging from low water levels to high wildfire danger. Join us on\u00a0<strong>Thursday, April 23rd at 11 am<\/strong>\u00a0for a webinar about this ongoing drought and its effects, presented by some of the experts who guide our state&#8217;s weekly drought assessment: Corey Davis, Assistant State Climatologist at the State Climate Office, Klaus Albertin, Chair of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdrought.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>NC DMAC<\/u><\/a>\u00a0at the Division of Water Resources, Jamie Dunbar, Fire Environment Staff Forester at NC Forest Service, Barrett Smith, Senior Service Hydrologist at NWS Raleigh. For those attending live, we will reserve time for Q&amp;A at the end. The webinar will also be recorded and posted afterwards, along with a summary blog post on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/climateblog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u>Climate Blog<\/u><\/a>. Register at <a href=\"http:\/\/go.ncsu.edu\/drought2026\">http:\/\/go.ncsu.edu\/drought2026<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-5.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Climate Office of North Carolina is hosting a webinar this coming Thursday to discuss the latest information about the drought that is affecting the Southeast. While it will focus on North Carolina, I expect that the general information about how the drought began and how it is evolving will be of interest to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881","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=29881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29886,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881\/revisions\/29886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}