{"id":7651,"date":"2016-07-16T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2016-07-16T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:57:36","slug":"extreme-drought-expands-in-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/07\/extreme-drought-expands-in-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme drought expands in the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last post on the Drought Monitor depiction of drought in our region at the end of June, the area of extreme drought in the Southeast has expanded from 0.5% to 2.5% of the total area of the region. \u00a0Both below-average rainfall and well above-average temperatures contributed to the expansion of the worst drought conditions, although the total area of abnormally dry or worse also increased slightly. \u00a0Drought may expand in the next few weeks as above normal temperatures are expected to continue at least through the end of the month, with few breaks to normal or cooler temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>If you are seeing drought conditions in your area that are not reflected on the drought map, you can help to make it better by submitting a drought impact report at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/droughtreporter.unl.edu\/map\/\">https:\/\/droughtreporter.unl.edu\/map\/<\/a>. \u00a0Just click on the link on top to &#8220;Submit a Report&#8221;. \u00a0I&#8217;ve heard from several people in Laurens County GA and elsewhere that they should be in the drought area but so far this has not been captured by the drought map.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/drought-july-16-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7652\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/drought-july-16-2016-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"drought july 16-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/drought-july-16-2016-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/drought-july-16-2016-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/drought-july-16-2016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/07\/drought-july-16-2016-279x138.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my last post on the Drought Monitor depiction of drought in our region at the end of June, the area of extreme drought in the Southeast has expanded from 0.5% to 2.5% of the total area of the region. \u00a0Both below-average rainfall and well above-average temperatures contributed to the expansion of the worst drought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","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=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7654,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/7654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}