{"id":8910,"date":"2016-10-31T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8910"},"modified":"2016-10-31T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:13:28","slug":"alabamas-worst-drought-in-memory-is-about-to-get-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/alabamas-worst-drought-in-memory-is-about-to-get-even-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama\u2019s \u2018Worst Drought In Memory\u2019 Is About To Get Even Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Huffington Post<\/em> had a scary article this week about the terrible drought that is occurring in Alabama (and Georgia and parts of the Carolinas). \u00a0Some farmers say that they have never seen it so bad in their lifetimes. Impacts include corn yields at 1\/3 of normal values, dried-up streams and pastures and potential impacts on ecosystems down the river all the way to the coast, where oyster beds may be threatened by the lack of fresh water. \u00a0The Little River in northeast Alabama&#8217;s Little River Canyon has completely stopped flowing because of the lack of rain (here&#8217;s WBRC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/story\/33449302\/little-river-falls-dries-up-due-to-drought?sf39577053=1\">story<\/a> on that). \u00a0You can read more details at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/alabama-drought-2016_us_5812b8fee4b0990edc303fb7\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/alabama-drought-2016_us_5812b8fee4b0990edc303fb7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/little-river-falls-in-drought.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8911\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/little-river-falls-in-drought-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Little River Falls in drought, October 2016.  Source: WBRC.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/little-river-falls-in-drought-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/little-river-falls-in-drought-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/10\/little-river-falls-in-drought.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little River Falls in drought, October 2016. Source: WBRC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huffington Post had a scary article this week about the terrible drought that is occurring in Alabama (and Georgia and parts of the Carolinas). \u00a0Some farmers say that they have never seen it so bad in their lifetimes. Impacts include corn yields at 1\/3 of normal values, dried-up streams and pastures and potential impacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8910","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\/8910","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=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8912,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions\/8912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}