{"id":9248,"date":"2016-11-22T22:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T03:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2016-11-22T22:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T03:47:52","slug":"drought-still-grips-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/11\/drought-still-grips-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought still grips southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many parts of the Southeast are in very bad drought conditions, we are not the only place in the US that is being affected by drought. \u00a0The drought in the Northeast, fortunately, seems to be waning as they go into the winter wet season. \u00a0In northern California, El Ni\u00f1o rains last year put a dent in their long-term drought. \u00a0But those rains missed southern California almost completely, and their drought is at exceptional levels similar to what parts of the Southeast are seeing now. \u00a0It is estimated that 107 million trees have died because of the drought there. \u00a0You can read more about it at EarthSky at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/drought-continues-california-november-2016\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/drought-continues-california-november-2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I attended the SouthEast Division of the Association of American Geographers meeting earlier this week and heard more about the California drought and its similarities to the Southeast drought in a talk by Glen McDonald. \u00a0You can read more about the topic at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/beyond_the_perfect_drought_californias_real_water_crisis\/2885\/\">https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/beyond_the_perfect_drought_californias_real_water_crisis\/2885\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/california-drought-november-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9249\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/california-drought-november-2016-300x200.png\" alt=\"california-drought-november-2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/california-drought-november-2016-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/california-drought-november-2016-207x138.png 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/11\/california-drought-november-2016.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many parts of the Southeast are in very bad drought conditions, we are not the only place in the US that is being affected by drought. \u00a0The drought in the Northeast, fortunately, seems to be waning as they go into the winter wet season. \u00a0In northern California, El Ni\u00f1o rains last year put a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":9249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","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=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9250,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions\/9250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}