{"id":29977,"date":"2026-05-11T20:41:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29977"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:41:37","slug":"april-2026-was-warmer-and-drier-than-usual-across-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/april-2026-was-warmer-and-drier-than-usual-across-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2026 was warmer and drier than usual across the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NOAA’s climate summary for April 2026 shows that across the Lower 48 states, the temperature was well above normal. Precipitation varied quite a bit across the country but in the Southeast, it was drier than normal everywhere except a small portion of Florida’s East Coast and northern Alabama. The warm and dry conditions contributed to a rapid increase in the amount and intensity of drought in our region. You can read the monthly climate summary for the US at https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/national-climate-202604<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NOAA’s climate summary for April 2026 shows that across the Lower 48 states, the temperature was well above normal. Precipitation varied quite a bit across the country but in the Southeast, it was drier than normal everywhere except a small portion of Florida’s East Coast and northern Alabama. The warm and dry conditions contributed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29977","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\/29977","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=29977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29980,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29977\/revisions\/29980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}