{"id":6489,"date":"2016-03-23T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2016-03-23T23:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:39:36","slug":"more-about-the-maya-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/more-about-the-maya-express\/","title":{"rendered":"More about the &#8220;Maya Express&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was flying to San Antonio this week to attend the eXtension conference, I noticed the tremendous flooding near the Mississippi River due to the recent heavy rains. \u00a0Sadly, I could not get a photo because I was not in a window seat. \u00a0In a previous blog post I attributed this to an atmospheric river called the &#8220;Maya Express.&#8221; \u00a0NOAA posted a blog entry today providing more information about this weather event at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/event-tracker\/maya-express-behind-gulf-coast-soaking\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/event-tracker\/maya-express-behind-gulf-coast-soaking<\/a>. \u00a0The flooding there is causing tremendous problems for farmers in the region and is expected to be an issue for some time as the flood waters slowly recede.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/PrecipTotalMar8-12_2016_620_4.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6490\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/PrecipTotalMar8-12_2016_620_4-300x232.png\" alt=\"PrecipTotalMar8-12_2016_620_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/PrecipTotalMar8-12_2016_620_4-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/PrecipTotalMar8-12_2016_620_4-178x138.png 178w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/03\/PrecipTotalMar8-12_2016_620_4.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was flying to San Antonio this week to attend the eXtension conference, I noticed the tremendous flooding near the Mississippi River due to the recent heavy rains. \u00a0Sadly, I could not get a photo because I was not in a window seat. \u00a0In a previous blog post I attributed this to an atmospheric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489","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=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}