{"id":8420,"date":"2016-09-22T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8420"},"modified":"2016-09-22T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:21:38","slug":"extreme-drought-expands-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/09\/extreme-drought-expands-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme drought expands in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Drought Monitor released this morning shows that extreme drought (D3) has expanded from 7.4 percent of the state&#8217;s area to over 11 percent in the last week. \u00a0Most of the expansion occurred in counties to the southeast of the Atlanta metro area, although there was also some expansion in the far northwest. \u00a0The northwestern region is also now designated as feeling impacts from both short- and long-term drought, which means that water quantity measures like streamflow and ground water levels are also being impacted in addition to soil moisture. \u00a0Moderate drought also expanded in western North Carolina. \u00a0Further expansion may be seen in the next week since little rainfall is expected in the drought areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8421\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"dm-20160920\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920-138x138.jpg 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/09\/dm-20160920.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Drought Monitor released this morning shows that extreme drought (D3) has expanded from 7.4 percent of the state&#8217;s area to over 11 percent in the last week. \u00a0Most of the expansion occurred in counties to the southeast of the Atlanta metro area, although there was also some expansion in the far northwest. \u00a0The northwestern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","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\/8420","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=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}