{"id":4424,"date":"2015-09-17T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2015-09-17T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:30:31","slug":"dry-conditions-expand-in-alabama-and-carolinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/dry-conditions-expand-in-alabama-and-carolinas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dry conditions expand in Alabama and Carolinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor this morning shows decreasing drought in Georgia and Florida but increases in drought and abnormally dry conditions in Alabama and North and South Carolina. \u00a0You can visit the Drought Monitor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/<\/a>. \u00a0Predictions for rainfall are below average for the next few weeks so this is likely to expand over time, at least until the winter El Ni\u00f1o rains start falling later this year.<\/p>\n<p>You might be interested in how the Drought Monitor is put together each week. Here&#8217;s an interesting story on how the map is put together using input from scores of experts across the country from the <em>Sacramento Bee<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/state\/california\/water-and-drought\/article34764399.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/state\/california\/water-and-drought\/article34764399.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4428\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/dm-9-17-2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4428\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/dm-9-17-2015-300x300.png\" alt=\"Source: National Drought Monitor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/dm-9-17-2015-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/dm-9-17-2015-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/dm-9-17-2015-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/dm-9-17-2015.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Drought Monitor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor this morning shows decreasing drought in Georgia and Florida but increases in drought and abnormally dry conditions in Alabama and North and South Carolina. \u00a0You can visit the Drought Monitor at https:\/\/www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/. \u00a0Predictions for rainfall are below average for the next few weeks so this is likely to expand over time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}