{"id":3811,"date":"2015-07-24T11:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2015-07-24T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:48:56","slug":"what-do-the-drought-monitor-categories-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/07\/what-do-the-drought-monitor-categories-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What do the Drought Monitor categories mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week on Thursday morning the National Drought Monitor is updated to reflect the latest drought conditions across the US. \u00a0You can find a comparison from one week to the next at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/MapsAndData\/WeeklyComparison.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/MapsAndData\/WeeklyComparison.aspx<\/a>. \u00a0But do you know what the different drought categories mean?<\/p>\n<p>The CoCoRaHS group has put together a neat animated YouTube video which explains the different classifications and how frequently they occur. \u00a0It is about six minutes long and can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7F6QwRqyVI&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i7F6QwRqyVI&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/drought-monitor-weekly-comparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3812\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/drought-monitor-weekly-comparison-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"drought monitor weekly comparison\" width=\"490\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/drought-monitor-weekly-comparison-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/07\/drought-monitor-weekly-comparison-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each week on Thursday morning the National Drought Monitor is updated to reflect the latest drought conditions across the US. \u00a0You can find a comparison from one week to the next at\u00a0https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/MapsAndData\/WeeklyComparison.aspx. \u00a0But do you know what the different drought categories mean? The CoCoRaHS group has put together a neat animated YouTube video which explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","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=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}