{"id":960,"date":"2014-10-01T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=960"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:09","slug":"happy-new-year-water-year-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/happy-new-year-water-year-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year (water year, that is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrologists often use the period from October 1 to September 30 as the &#8220;Water Year&#8221; to describe rainfall over time.\u00a0 They choose this period because it is the end of the summer depletion of soil moisture and the average start of the fall and winter recharge period.\u00a0 Often, the end of the water year corresponds with the lowest base flow levels in streams.\u00a0 For the water year that just ended, most of the Southeast was drier than usual with some exceptions, particularly in Florida.\u00a0 The driest areas in south Georgia correspond quite well with areas that have recently been in severe drought.\u00a0 You can read a brief article about it in the newsletter from CoCoRaHS <a title=\"Water Year\" href=\"https:\/\/us1.campaign-archive2.com\/?u=00577ca59c6e6aa18cc70743c&amp;id=3fde07340b&amp;e=0a14f4458f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/wy2013-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-961\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/wy2013-14-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"wy2013-14\" width=\"572\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/wy2013-14-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/wy2013-14-239x138.jpg 239w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/10\/wy2013-14.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrologists often use the period from October 1 to September 30 as the &#8220;Water Year&#8221; to describe rainfall over time.\u00a0 They choose this period because it is the end of the summer depletion of soil moisture and the average start of the fall and winter recharge period.\u00a0 Often, the end of the water year corresponds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22866,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/22866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}