{"id":15432,"date":"2013-08-01T09:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2013-08-01T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:25:03","slug":"rains-bring-drought-relief-to-much-of-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/08\/01\/rains-bring-drought-relief-to-much-of-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains Bring Drought Relief to Much of Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15433\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15433\" alt=\"DM-7-30\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/DM-7-30-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/DM-7-30-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/DM-7-30-150x114.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/DM-7-30.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">U.S. Drought Monitor<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Recent rains have dramatically improved statewide drought conditions, <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/DM_state.htm?OK,S\">data from the U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a> show.<\/p><p>Slightly more than half the state is experiencing some form of drought, which is a big improvement from the 75 percent reported on July 23.<\/p><p>Conditions in areas suffering from the most extreme drought classifications \u2014 &#8220;exceptional&#8221; and &#8220;extreme&#8221; \u2014 have improved significantly, but high levels of drought remain in west and southwest Oklahoma, data show.<!--more--><\/p><p>Rainfall has been widespread, but not even, the U.S. Department of Agriculture officials noted in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/oce\/weather\/pubs\/\">weekly weather and crop bulletin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; parts of \u00a0western Oklahoma and the Panhandle received less than half an\u00a0inch, while places in central and eastern Oklahoma received\u00a0upwards of six inches.<\/p><p>All of the rainfall resulted in improvements in condition ratings for\u00a0most row crops, as well as pasture conditions and provided run-off\u00a0for livestock water sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent rains have dramatically improved statewide drought conditions, data from the U.S. Drought Monitor show.Slightly more than half the state is experiencing some form of drought, which is a big improvement from the 75 percent reported on July 23.Conditions in areas suffering from the most extreme drought classifications \u2014 &#8220;exceptional&#8221; and &#8220;extreme&#8221; \u2014 have improved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[423],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432"}],"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=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15435,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions\/15435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}