{"id":818,"date":"2014-09-12T23:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:11","slug":"georgia-10th-driest-summer-since-1895-but-us-is-9th-wettest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/georgia-10th-driest-summer-since-1895-but-us-is-9th-wettest\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia 10th driest summer since 1895, but US is 9th wettest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Climatic Data Center reported that the US as a whole experienced its 9th wettest summer on record (1895 to present) and drought decreased to 33 percent of the continguous area. \u00a0For the same time period, however, Georgia experienced its 10th driest summer with only 73 percent of normal rainfall, and drought expanded to cover 25 percent of the state. \u00a0Here are a couple of NOAA graphics to show climate highlights across the country for August and the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/div-precip-anomalies.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-819\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/div-precip-anomalies-300x219.png\" alt=\"div precip anomalies\" width=\"412\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/div-precip-anomalies-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/div-precip-anomalies-188x138.png 188w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/div-precip-anomalies.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/signif-events-august-and-summer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-820\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/signif-events-august-and-summer-300x228.png\" alt=\"signif events august and summer\" width=\"343\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/signif-events-august-and-summer-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/signif-events-august-and-summer-181x138.png 181w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/09\/signif-events-august-and-summer.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Climatic Data Center reported that the US as a whole experienced its 9th wettest summer on record (1895 to present) and drought decreased to 33 percent of the continguous area. \u00a0For the same time period, however, Georgia experienced its 10th driest summer with only 73 percent of normal rainfall, and drought expanded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}