{"id":14600,"date":"2013-06-07T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2013-06-07T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T15:01:36","slug":"rain-helps-conditions-but-drought-persists-in-western-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/06\/07\/rain-helps-conditions-but-drought-persists-in-western-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Helps Conditions, But Drought Persists in Western Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14601\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"U.S. Drought Monitor for June 4, 2013.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/DM-6-4.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14601\" title=\"U.S. Drought Monitor\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/06\/DM-6-4-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">U.S. Drought Monitor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Drought Monitor for June 4, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma&#8217;s overall conditions have improved with recent rain, but western regions of the state are still suffering &#8220;extreme&#8221; and &#8220;exceptional&#8221; levels of drought, <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/DM_state.htm?OK,S\">data from the U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a> show.<\/p><p>Thirty-eight percent of the state is now classified as drought-free, a slight improvement from the 32 drought-free total recorded on May 28, the data show. In March, the entire state was blanketed by drought conditions.<\/p><p>Summer, however, is just getting started, National Weather Service\u00a0meteorologist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/article.aspx\/Recent_rain_helps_improve_drought_conditions_in_Oklahoma\/20130607_11_A8_Recent366591?rss_lnk=1&utm_source=feedly\">Michael Lacy tells<\/a> <em>Tulsa World<\/em> reporter Althea Peterson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to start seeing our regular 90s in the middle to latter part of the week next week,&#8221; Lacy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s overall conditions have improved with recent rain, but western regions of the state are still suffering &#8220;extreme&#8221; and &#8220;exceptional&#8221; levels of drought, data from the U.S. Drought Monitor show.Thirty-eight percent of the state is now classified as drought-free, a slight improvement from the 32 drought-free total recorded on May 28, the data show. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":14601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[423,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14604,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions\/14604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}