{"id":529,"date":"2014-08-04T08:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=529"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:52","slug":"mapping-drought-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/mapping-drought-across-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping drought across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<em> New York Times<\/em> has an interesting map which shows the changing drought across the US. \u00a0You can see the growth and decay of drought in the Texas panhandle as well as the increasing severity of drought in California. \u00a0Access it <a title=\"Change in drought across US\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/upshot\/mapping-the-spread-of-drought-across-the-us.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u00a0The text indicates the drought is increasing as a result of global warming, but climatologists know that California droughts often strength in summer due to normal lack of rain (their dry season runs from roughly April to October). \u00a0In addition, California&#8217;s climate history using paleorecords like tree rings indicate that they have gone through many periods of protracted drought in the past. \u00a0If the Earth continues to warm, however, droughts may increase due to higher evaporation rates associated with warmer temperatures, in addition to any decreases in rainfall that may occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has an interesting map which shows the changing drought across the US. \u00a0You can see the growth and decay of drought in the Texas panhandle as well as the increasing severity of drought in California. \u00a0Access it here. \u00a0The text indicates the drought is increasing as a result of global warming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22740,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/22740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}