{"id":6887,"date":"2016-04-28T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:23:36","slug":"drought-returns-to-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/drought-returns-to-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought returns to the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor came out today and shows that a large area of northeast Georgia plus a sliver of adjoining South Carolina is now classified as D1, moderate drought. \u00a0Small areas in western Virginia also received a D1 classification this week. \u00a0The drought declaration was not surprising considering the lack of rainfall in recent weeks, but also reflects longer-term dryness as shown in the radar-estimated radar for the year to date from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/water.weather.gov\/precip\/\">https:\/\/water.weather.gov\/precip\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6888\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none-300x300.png\" alt=\"dm 20160426_southeast_none\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/dm-20160426_southeast_none.png 816w\" 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