{"id":278,"date":"2016-11-23T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=278"},"modified":"2016-11-23T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:20:45","slug":"november-22-2016-drought-monitor-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2016\/11\/november-22-2016-drought-monitor-update\/","title":{"rendered":"November 22, 2016 Drought monitor Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is copy from the latest release from the National Drought Mitigation Center:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Within the announcement, there are a few links that will provide additional information. \u00a0These include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/\">Complete statistics and additional products\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/oce\/weather\/Drought\/AgInDrought.pdf\">US Crops Drought update<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/Home\/Narrative.aspx\">Narrative of this week&#8217;s drought conditions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/November-22-2016-drought-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-279\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/November-22-2016-drought-map-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"november-22-2016-drought-map\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/November-22-2016-drought-map-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/November-22-2016-drought-map-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/November-22-2016-drought-map.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/November-22-2016-drought-map-179x138.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov-22-2016-Geprgia-Drought-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-280\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov-22-2016-Geprgia-Drought-map-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"nov-22-2016-geprgia-drought-map\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov-22-2016-Geprgia-Drought-map-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov-22-2016-Geprgia-Drought-map-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov-22-2016-Geprgia-Drought-map.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2016\/11\/Nov-22-2016-Geprgia-Drought-map-179x138.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*** *** *** *** *** *** ***<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Drought Monitor for November 22, 2016:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the contiguous 48 states, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed 31.14 percent of the area in moderate drought or worse, compared with 30.13 percent a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Drought now affects 148,801,899 people, compared with 140,847,873 a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed 26.02 percent of the area in moderate drought or worse, compared with 25.18 percent a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Drought now affects 148,819,767 people, compared with 140,865,741 a week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To find populations affected by drought for specific states or time periods please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/MapsAndData\/DataTables.aspx\">https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/MapsAndData\/DataTables.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just select one of the Population types from the Statistic Type pulldown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The attachments include the weekly map and narrative as well as the one-week change map.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For complete U.S. Drought Monitor statistics and additional products and information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\">https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. Crops in Drought&#8221; is updated each week:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/oce\/weather\/Drought\/AgInDrought.pdf\">https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/oce\/weather\/Drought\/AgInDrought.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 22, 2016 Drought monitor information has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}