{"id":29917,"date":"2026-04-23T22:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:28:45","slug":"north-carolina-drought-one-of-many-to-watch-as-southeast-dries-to-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/04\/north-carolina-drought-one-of-many-to-watch-as-southeast-dries-to-record-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Drought One of Many to Watch as Southeast Dries to Record Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here is a really interesting article that describes the current drought in North Carolina and the Southeast that you might also find interesting. It describes the current drought and how the tropical season may affect the drought later in the summer, including transportation hubs like regional airports. You can read it at iWeatherNet at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/wildfires-and-droughts\/north-carolina-drought-record-levels\">https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/wildfires-and-droughts\/north-carolina-drought-record-levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-9.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"783\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-9-1024x783.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-9-1024x783.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-9-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-9-768x587.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/image-9.png 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a really interesting article that describes the current drought in North Carolina and the Southeast that you might also find interesting. It describes the current drought and how the tropical season may affect the drought later in the summer, including transportation hubs like regional airports. You can read it at iWeatherNet at https:\/\/www.iweathernet.com\/wildfires-and-droughts\/north-carolina-drought-record-levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917","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=29917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29919,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29917\/revisions\/29919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}