{"id":3216,"date":"2015-05-26T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2015-05-26T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:53:41","slug":"extreme-weather-are-you-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/05\/extreme-weather-are-you-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme weather&#8211;Are you ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read the news about the extreme flooding that is occurring over the central part of the United States. \u00a0In Sunday&#8217;s post on climate data sources I showed a precipitation map from the Oklahoma mesonet; some stations reported more than 20 inches in the last 30 days! \u00a0You can read one story about the flooding at EarthSky <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/central-u-s-inudated-with-heavy-rain?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=4bb3ea218f-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-4bb3ea218f-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0A map from the NWS is shown below with rainfall departures for the last 14 days (you can get updates at \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/water.weather.gov\/precip\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/water.weather.gov\/precip\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if faced with extreme precipitation? \u00a0There is an observed trend towards more extreme precipitation events in the United States, so you are likely to face this situation at some point in the future. \u00a0Preparation is key to being able to respond quickly and effectively to the event. \u00a0AgWeb posted a link to an article from Nationwide Agribusiness with specific tips for agricultural producers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/extreme-weather-threats\/?smartid=ZZZZZZTZ12Z2221Z2ZZZZZZZZ2ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ&amp;spMailingID=48718993&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=682753072&amp;spReportId=NjgyNzUzMDcyS0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The best thing you can do to protect your business is to have an emergency plan in place before the event occurs. \u00a0You can get help in putting a plan together at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/business\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/business<\/a>. \u00a0The North Carolina Department of Agriculture also has a good template <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncagr.gov\/oep\/documents\/Farm%20Emergency%20Plan%20Template%202012%20Final%20%282%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and Iowa State has one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prep4agthreats.org\/All-Hazard-Preparedness\/farm-emergency-preparedness-plan\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/southern-region-precip-dep-last-14-days-5-26-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3217\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/southern-region-precip-dep-last-14-days-5-26-2015-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"southern region precip dep last 14 days 5-26-2015\" width=\"517\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/southern-region-precip-dep-last-14-days-5-26-2015-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/southern-region-precip-dep-last-14-days-5-26-2015-239x138.jpg 239w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/southern-region-precip-dep-last-14-days-5-26-2015.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read the news about the extreme flooding that is occurring over the central part of the United States. \u00a0In Sunday&#8217;s post on climate data sources I showed a precipitation map from the Oklahoma mesonet; some stations reported more than 20 inches in the last 30 days! \u00a0You can read one story about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}