{"id":30006,"date":"2026-05-19T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=30006"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:23:43","slug":"were-pretty-low-georgias-ogeechee-river-is-visibly-shallow-amid-the-states-extreme-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/were-pretty-low-georgias-ogeechee-river-is-visibly-shallow-amid-the-states-extreme-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We\u2019re pretty low.&#8217; Georgia&#8217;s Ogeechee River is visibly shallow amid the state&#8217;s extreme drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been many impacts from the current exceptional drought in the Southeast. One that has not  been mentioned until lately is the decrease in stream flows on many of the region&#8217;s rivers. Many water bodies, including reservoirs and farm ponds, have lost a lot of water due to the combination of no precipitation and warm temperatures, which enhance evaporation. You can read about the Ogeechee River in Georgia in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/were-pretty-low-georgias-ogeechee-river-visibly-shallow-amid-the-states-extreme\">recent story<\/a> from <em>Georgia Public Broadcasting<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-4.png 1000w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-4-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/05\/image-4-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ga. Highway 204 crosses over the Ogeechee River near Chatham County in May 2026. The river was several feet below historic averages, owing to a statewide drought.<br>Credit:\u00a0Jillian Magtoto \/ GPB News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many impacts from the current exceptional drought in the Southeast. One that has not been mentioned until lately is the decrease in stream flows on many of the region&#8217;s rivers. Many water bodies, including reservoirs and farm ponds, have lost a lot of water due to the combination of no precipitation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":30007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006","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=30006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30008,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30006\/revisions\/30008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}