{"id":30068,"date":"2026-05-31T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=30068"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:30:38","slug":"may-2026-was-wetter-than-normal-in-most-of-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/may-2026-was-wetter-than-normal-in-most-of-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2026 was wetter than normal in most of the region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a very dry start to the spring season, May is going out with wetter than normal conditions for most areas in the Southeast except southeast Florida, northern North Carolina and southern Virginia. The rain that we have had in the last couple of weeks has put a dent in the drought and we hope to see more of that in the coming months as we try to whittle away at the rainfall deficit. May was also warmer than normal in the Florida Peninsula and parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and other areas. and You can get these maps at https:\/\/hprcc.unl.edu\/maps.php?map=ACISClimateMaps<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a very dry start to the spring season, May is going out with wetter than normal conditions for most areas in the Southeast except southeast Florida, northern North Carolina and southern Virginia. The rain that we have had in the last couple of weeks has put a dent in the drought and we hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":30070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30068","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\/30068","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=30068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30071,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30068\/revisions\/30071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}