{"id":9400,"date":"2016-12-08T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9400"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:48:13","slug":"slow-improvement-in-drought-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/12\/slow-improvement-in-drought-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow improvement in drought conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The welcome rain in the past week helped reduce the worst drought in the Southeast, although the overall area of dry conditions did not change. \u00a0Just like the drought status is slow to worsen when we are going into a drought, the Drought Monitor authors remove drought slowly until it is clear that we have seen a long-term shift in the weather pattern. \u00a0The most noticeable improvements occurred in southern Alabama and Georgia and a small area near Atlanta. \u00a0I expect to see further improvements in next week&#8217;s map since we have had rain since this week&#8217;s cutoff date. \u00a0Drought generally decreases in the winter due to the combination of cool temperatures (which reduce evaporation) and dormant plants (which reduces evapotranspiration). \u00a0We still have a long way to go to completely make up the water deficit (but let&#8217;s not get it all in one event!).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9401\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/12\/dm-20161206_southeast_none.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The welcome rain in the past week helped reduce the worst drought in the Southeast, although the overall area of dry conditions did not change. \u00a0Just like the drought status is slow to worsen when we are going into a drought, the Drought Monitor authors remove drought slowly until it is clear that we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9400","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\/9400","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=9400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9402,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9400\/revisions\/9402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}