{"id":7403,"date":"2016-06-16T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2016-06-16T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:31:12","slug":"severe-drought-doubled-in-alabama-and-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/severe-drought-doubled-in-alabama-and-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe drought doubled in Alabama and Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor shows an significant expansion of severe drought in both Alabama and Georgia. \u00a0Dry conditions early in June and a miss by Tropical Storm Colin coupled with very warm temperatures has allowed severe drought to grow, expanding south from the northern portions of those states into the Birmingham and Atlanta areas. \u00a0Hot temperatures are expected to continue for a couple more days before a cold front brings some relief to the area.<\/p>\n<p>If you have impacts from the drought that you would like to report, please send them to me and I will pass them on to the Drought Monitor folk, or you can submit them directly at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/droughtreporter.unl.edu\/map\/\">https:\/\/droughtreporter.unl.edu\/map\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7404\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none-300x300.png\" alt=\"dm 20160614_southeast_none\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/dm-20160614_southeast_none.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Drought Monitor shows an significant expansion of severe drought in both Alabama and Georgia. \u00a0Dry conditions early in June and a miss by Tropical Storm Colin coupled with very warm temperatures has allowed severe drought to grow, expanding south from the northern portions of those states into the Birmingham and Atlanta areas. \u00a0Hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":7404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403","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\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7408,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions\/7408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}