{"id":260,"date":"2016-11-11T05:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-11-11T05:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:33:03","slug":"260","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2016\/11\/260\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Drought from North Georgia to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following article written by Dan Chapman with the Atlanta Journal Constitution related to drought was in the November 8th edition of the AJC. \u00a0UGA CAES Agricultural Climatologist is quoted in this article.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*** *** *** ***<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"roof\"><span class=\"hit\">DROUGHT<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"roof-separator\"><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">Region from North Georgia to Florida in historic <span class=\"hit\">drought<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"drop-head\">And the outlook for the next three months looks equally bleak.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"byline-separator\"><\/div>\n<address class=\"ByLine\">By Dan Chapman <span class=\"tag LOC\"><span class=\"text_link link_wrap type_eml\">dchapman@ajc.com<\/span><\/span><\/address>\n<div class=\"Content\">\n<p class=\"indent\">No rain for weeks. Streams flowing at historically low levels. Wild fires raging. A drier- and warmer-than-usual winter predicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">The Chattahoochee and Flint river basins, running from North Georgia to Florida, are in \u201chistoric and exceptional drought,\u201dstate and federal climatologists said Tuesday. And the outlook for the next three months looks equally bleak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Content\">\n<p class=\"indent\">\u201c Things will continue to degrade across the area,\u201d said David Zierden, the climatologist for the state of Florida. \u201cThis year we will probably have more record streaks without any measurable rainfall than any other year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">Zierden joined weather experts from across Florida, Georgia and Alabama for their bimonthly Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin <span class=\"hit\">Drought<\/span> Assessment webinar. The updates, like the weather, get worse and worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">Cartersville, for example, hasn\u2019t had measurable rain in 49 days. Pastures have dried up across North Georgia. Cattle have been culled. Hay is imported from South Georgia or Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">\u201cAnd the soil is so dry you can\u2019t even plant a fall crop,\u201d said Pam Knox, a University of Georgia climatologist. \u201cIf you plant seed in the ground, it (won\u2019t) germinate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">Gordon County has banned outdoor fires, like many Southeastern U.S. counties. Firefighters on Tuesday battled a 20-acre fire in Paulding County with smoke visible near Dallas, Rockmart and Yorkville. Alabama, overall, records 40 new fires daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">The <span class=\"hit\">drought<\/span> is killing streams. Paul Ankcorn, a hyrdologist with the U.S. Geological Service, says half of Georgia is in a \u201csevere hydro-logic <span class=\"hit\">drought.\u201d<\/span> Gauges along the Chattahoochee River near Cornelia and Dahlonega show record-low flows, as do gauges along the Flint and other streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">A Sweetwater \u00a0Creek gauge, near Austell, recently recorded its lowest daily average flow in 110 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">No relief is on the horizon. The La Nina weather pattern, comfortably ensconced atop the Northern Hemisphere, isn\u2019t likely to change over the next three months when, typically, the replenishing winter rains arrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indent\">Georgia officials will talk with utility directors today and Thursday to determine whether the state\u2019s <span class=\"hit\">drought<\/span> warning should be raised to Level 2. By week\u2019s end, metro Atlantans may be able to water only twice weekly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article written by Dan Chapman with the Atlanta Journal Constitution related to drought was in the November 8th edition of the AJC. \u00a0UGA CAES Agricultural Climatologist is quoted in this article. &nbsp; *** *** *** *** DROUGHT Region from North Georgia to Florida in historic drought And the outlook for the next three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-water-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}