{"id":5699,"date":"2016-01-10T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2016-01-10T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T23:02:10","slug":"south-africa-drought-leads-to-failed-crops-water-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/south-africa-drought-leads-to-failed-crops-water-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Drought Leads to Failed Crops, Water Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ABC News<\/em> posted a story today about the severe drought in South Africa. \u00a0In the last week 11 people have died from heatstroke associated with record-setting high temperatures in the dry conditions.<\/p>\n<p>One farmer reported that he has already lost $60,000 this season because he has not been able to plant a single seed. \u00a0He pointed out that one bad season may cause repercussions several years down the road as farmers have to pay back the loans they must take out to survive in the lean years. \u00a0You can read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/south-africa-drought-leads-failed-crops-water-shortages-36194725\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drought in southern Africa is often linked to El Ni\u00f1o, as you can see in the diagram below. \u00a0In this case many scientists believe that rising temperatures are also contributing to the severity of the heat wave and dry conditions that are occurring this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2008\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/global-el-nino-effects.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/global-el-nino-effects-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Source: NOAA\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/global-el-nino-effects-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/global-el-nino-effects-226x138.jpg 226w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/02\/global-el-nino-effects.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NOAA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News posted a story today about the severe drought in South Africa. \u00a0In the last week 11 people have died from heatstroke associated with record-setting high temperatures in the dry conditions. One farmer reported that he has already lost $60,000 this season because he has not been able to plant a single seed. \u00a0He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","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=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5700,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/5700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}