{"id":9649,"date":"2017-01-05T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2017-01-05T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:30:46","slug":"exceptional-drought-is-gone-from-the-southeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/01\/exceptional-drought-is-gone-from-the-southeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional drought is gone from the Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s Drought Monitor shows a significant improvement in drought conditions in Alabama and northern Georgia as recent rains have brought relief to many areas. \u00a0All of the D4 exceptional drought is now gone, and areas of extreme, severe and moderate drought have all been reduced. \u00a0Drought conditions in southern Georgia and in Florida have not changed. \u00a0While drought is improving, there are still many impacts of drought to be seen around the area, including low pond and lake levels and low stream flows in many rivers. \u00a0Drought often improves over winter as temperatures are cool enough that evaporation is not a factor and plants are dormant, with reduced water needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9650\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/01\/dm-20170103_southeast_none.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s Drought Monitor shows a significant improvement in drought conditions in Alabama and northern Georgia as recent rains have brought relief to many areas. \u00a0All of the D4 exceptional drought is now gone, and areas of extreme, severe and moderate drought have all been reduced. \u00a0Drought conditions in southern Georgia and in Florida have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9649","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\/9649","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=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}