{"id":9055,"date":"2016-11-09T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9055"},"modified":"2016-11-09T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T02:08:15","slug":"52-days-without-rain-in-birmingham-ties-the-record-from-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/52-days-without-rain-in-birmingham-ties-the-record-from-1924\/","title":{"rendered":"52 days without rain in Birmingham ties the record from 1924"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Spann pointed out in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=107358\">blog<\/a> today that it is Day 52 of no rain in the Birmingham AL area. \u00a0This ties the record from 1924, and they will break the record tomorrow since no rain is forecast. \u00a0In fact, if you look down the pike, there is no rain in the forecast until about November 18-19 (depending on where you are in the Southeast). \u00a0A ten-day forecast is not very accurate, so even this does not give much hope. \u00a0The \u00a0next Drought Monitor is released tomorrow and I expect it will show worsening conditions across Georgia and Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a satellite image which shows the smoke plumes from fires around the region today, blowing south, from Matt Daniel WMAZ. \u00a0Don&#8217;t start any fires under these terrible conditions!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/smoke-plumes-11-9-2016-matt-daniel.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9056\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/smoke-plumes-11-9-2016-matt-daniel-292x300.png\" alt=\"smoke-plumes-11-9-2016-matt-daniel\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/smoke-plumes-11-9-2016-matt-daniel-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/smoke-plumes-11-9-2016-matt-daniel-134x138.png 134w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/smoke-plumes-11-9-2016-matt-daniel.png 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Spann pointed out in his blog today that it is Day 52 of no rain in the Birmingham AL area. \u00a0This ties the record from 1924, and they will break the record tomorrow since no rain is forecast. \u00a0In fact, if you look down the pike, there is no rain in the forecast until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9055","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\/9055","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=9055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9055\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}