{"id":463,"date":"2018-01-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=463"},"modified":"2018-01-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:00:00","slug":"drought-monitor-for-january-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2018\/01\/drought-monitor-for-january-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought Monitor for January 2, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

The following is copy from the latest release from the National Drought Mitigation Center:<\/p>\n

Within the announcement, there are a few links that will provide additional information. \u00a0These include:<\/p>\n

Crops in Drought<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Drought Monitor statistics<\/a>\u00a0(Drought Map)<\/p>\n

Narrative of Drought<\/a><\/p>\n

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U.S. Drought Monitor for January 2, 2018:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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For the contiguous 48 states, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed 27.70 percent of the area in moderate drought or worse, compared with 26.37 percent a week earlier.<\/p>\n

Drought now affects 61,895,597 people, compared with 57,457,534 a week earlier.<\/p>\n

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For all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed 23.18 percent of the area in moderate drought or worse, compared with 22.07 percent a week earlier.<\/p>\n

Drought now affects 62,002,755 people, compared with 57,564,692 a week earlier.<\/p>\n

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To find populations affected by drought for specific states or time periods please visit https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/Data\/DataTables.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

Just select one of the Population types from the Statistic Type pulldown.<\/p>\n

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The attachments include the weekly map and narrative as well as the one-week change map.<\/p>\n

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For complete U.S. Drought Monitor statistics and additional products and information, please visit https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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“U.S. Crops in Drought” is updated each week:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/oce\/weather\/Drought\/AgInDrought.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 Georgia like most of the Southeast is experiencing no drought conditions to Moderate Drought conditions.\u00a0 More information can be found at the Drought monitor website enclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}