{"id":29949,"date":"2026-04-30T22:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29949"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:56:32","slug":"april-2026-ends-up-warmer-and-drier-than-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/04\/april-2026-ends-up-warmer-and-drier-than-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2026 ends up warmer and drier than normal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since today is the last day of the month, the summary maps are not quite complete but still show how much warmer and drier than normal most of the Southeast was this month. Note that there were parts of the region that received less than 5 percent of the normal precipitation. No wonder the drought expanded so much this month! Southern Florida was the only significant part of the region that had above-normal rainfall due to a storm that formed off the East Coast and brought rain to that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep-1536x1187.png 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-temp-dep-2048x1583.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip-1024x791.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip-1536x1187.png 1536w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/04\/apr-26-precip-2048x1583.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since today is the last day of the month, the summary maps are not quite complete but still show how much warmer and drier than normal most of the Southeast was this month. Note that there were parts of the region that received less than 5 percent of the normal precipitation. No wonder the drought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949","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=29949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29952,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions\/29952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}