{"id":3723,"date":"2015-07-05T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2015-07-05T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T13:10:07","slug":"climate-data-sources-georgia-fire-weather-mesonet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/climate-data-sources-georgia-fire-weather-mesonet\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate data sources: Georgia Fire Weather mesonet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the mesonet run by the University of Georgia (https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net), there are two other mesonets in Georgia. \u00a0One of them is the Georgia Forestry Commission mesonet. \u00a0You can access their data at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gfc.state.ga.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/weather.gfc.state.ga.us\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This network has 19 weather stations scattered around the state. \u00a0It provides information on current and historical weather as well as a variety of maps on fire conditions. \u00a0For example, the KBDI map below (Keetch Byram Drought Index) identifies the areas that are most vulnerable to fires based on climate conditions. \u00a0Areas above 500 are expecially vulnerable. \u00a0This is a great source of information if you are thinking of doing any burning to see if conditions are appropriate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3724\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/kbdi.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3724\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/kbdi-300x281.gif\" alt=\"Source: Georgia Forestry Commission\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/kbdi-300x281.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/kbdi-147x138.gif 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Georgia Forestry Commission<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the mesonet run by the University of Georgia (https:\/\/www.georgiaweather.net), there are two other mesonets in Georgia. \u00a0One of them is the Georgia Forestry Commission mesonet. \u00a0You can access their data at\u00a0https:\/\/weather.gfc.state.ga.us\/. This network has 19 weather stations scattered around the state. \u00a0It provides information on current and historical weather as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}