{"id":617,"date":"2014-08-21T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T03:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=617"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:16:04","slug":"severe-drought-returns-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/severe-drought-returns-to-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe drought returns to Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drought Monitor released their latest drought map today and severe drought (D2&#8211;dark tan on drought map) showed up for the first time in Georgia since March 19, 2013. \u00a0Two small areas in south central and southwest Georgia were identified and are well correlated with the lowest departures from normal over the last 90 days. \u00a0Rainfall in southern Georgia has been spotty for the last few weeks and the recent warmer temperatures have accelerated the drying. \u00a0Will it get worse or will the potential TS Cristobal pass over Georgia and bring conditions back to normal? \u00a0 Hurricane models are not consistently developing and tracking the potential tropical storm, so scientists are not at all sure if it will develop and where it will go if it does. \u00a0Keep an eye out for future forecasts as the tropical wave moves closer to the Southeast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/20140819_southeast_drought-monitor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-618\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/20140819_southeast_drought-monitor-300x300.png\" alt=\"20140819_southeast_drought monitor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/20140819_southeast_drought-monitor-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/20140819_southeast_drought-monitor-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/20140819_southeast_drought-monitor-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/20140819_southeast_drought-monitor.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/90-day-departure-8-21-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-619\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/90-day-departure-8-21-2014-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"90 day departure 8-21-2014\" width=\"486\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/90-day-departure-8-21-2014-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/90-day-departure-8-21-2014-239x138.jpg 239w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/90-day-departure-8-21-2014.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Drought Monitor can be found at\u00a0<a title=\"Drought monitor\" href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/<\/a> and is updated every Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drought Monitor released their latest drought map today and severe drought (D2&#8211;dark tan on drought map) showed up for the first time in Georgia since March 19, 2013. \u00a0Two small areas in south central and southwest Georgia were identified and are well correlated with the lowest departures from normal over the last 90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22833,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/22833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}