{"id":8082,"date":"2016-08-23T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2016-08-23T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:12:17","slug":"noaa-drought-and-la-nina-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/08\/noaa-drought-and-la-nina-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: Drought and La Ni\u00f1a updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve been watching the drought in the Southeast, many other areas of the country are also experiencing drought. \u00a0NOAA published a country-wide overview of the drought in these regions at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/drought-building-places-other-california\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/drought-building-places-other-california<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA also provided an update on the current neutral conditions and the likely transition into La Ni\u00f1a in their ENSO\u00a0blog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/august-2016-enso-update-wavy-gravy\">https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/august-2016-enso-update-wavy-gravy<\/a>. \u00a0The article has some interesting discussion on what the tropical Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures are looking like and how NOAA decides that a La Ni\u00f1a is officially occurring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc-1000x704-2016-08-02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8084\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc-1000x704-2016-08-02-300x211.png\" alt=\"usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc--1000x704--2016-08-02\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc-1000x704-2016-08-02-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc-1000x704-2016-08-02-768x541.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc-1000x704-2016-08-02-196x138.png 196w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/08\/usdroughtmonitor-weekly-ndmc-1000x704-2016-08-02.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;ve been watching the drought in the Southeast, many other areas of the country are also experiencing drought. \u00a0NOAA published a country-wide overview of the drought in these regions at\u00a0https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/drought-building-places-other-california\u00a0earlier this month. NOAA also provided an update on the current neutral conditions and the likely transition into La Ni\u00f1a in their ENSO\u00a0blog at\u00a0https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/blogs\/enso\/august-2016-enso-update-wavy-gravy. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-el-nino-and-la-nina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","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=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}