{"id":6319,"date":"2016-03-06T21:17:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T02:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2016-03-06T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T02:17:40","slug":"very-warm-temperatures-for-the-next-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/very-warm-temperatures-for-the-next-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Very warm temperatures for the next two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to weather forecast models, the next two weeks across the Southeast have a very high probability of above-normal temperatures for at least the next two weeks. \u00a0Rainfall is also expected to be fairly light for the next week. \u00a0These conditions\u00a0should rapidly increase soil temperatures and dry them out, allowing farmers to prepare their fields for spring planting. \u00a0Rome Ethredge of <em>Seminole Crop E News<\/em> noted <a href=\"https:\/\/seminolecropnews.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/05\/corn-a-week-after-planting\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> that corn planting in southwest Georgia has already begun due to warm soil temperatures, even though there is still a chance of frost.<\/p>\n<p>Note that in the map below, the contours give the probability of above-normal temperature but do not say how much above normal it will be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/610temp.03062016.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6320\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/610temp.03062016-284x300.gif\" alt=\"610temp.03062016\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/610temp.03062016-284x300.gif 284w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/610temp.03062016-131x138.gif 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to weather forecast models, the next two weeks across the Southeast have a very high probability of above-normal temperatures for at least the next two weeks. \u00a0Rainfall is also expected to be fairly light for the next week. \u00a0These conditions\u00a0should rapidly increase soil temperatures and dry them out, allowing farmers to prepare their fields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-outlooks","category-extension-agent-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319","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=6319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6319\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}