{"id":14109,"date":"2012-06-28T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2012-06-29T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T12:46:44","slug":"weekely-dorught-update-with-record-heat-drought-creeped-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/28\/weekely-dorught-update-with-record-heat-drought-creeped-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekely Drought Update: With Record Heat, Drought Creeps Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14111\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/28\/weekely-dorught-update-with-record-heat-drought-creeped-back\/picture-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14111\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14111\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Picture-4-300x292.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Picture-4-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/06\/Picture-4.png 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">US Drought Monitor Map<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good news: No exceptional drought. Bad news: Seven percent more of the state in drought conditions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, Texas hit a milestone in its recovery from drought: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/21\/in-drought-texas-is-no-longer-exceptional-for-now\/#more-13221\">no portion of the state was any longer in the worst <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/21\/in-drought-texas-is-no-longer-exceptional-for-now\/#more-13221\">&#8220;exceptional&#8221; stage of drought.\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/21\/in-drought-texas-is-no-longer-exceptional-for-now\/#more-13221\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news this week is not quite as good. The drought has returned to some previously drought-free parts of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>A greater amount of the state &#8211; seven percent, &#8211; has been added to the area experiencing drought since\u00a0last week&#8217;s release of the US Drought Monitor Map.<\/p>\n<p>That shouldn&#8217;t come as\u00a0 a surprise. Meteorologists foresaw a lack of summer precipitation. And, as we reported last week, we&#8217;re not likely to receive immediate relief any time soon. But <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/06\/07\/is-the-drought-ending-who-really-knows\/\">a projected El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern arriving by late summer should help the state&#8217;s prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the meantime, the advice our mother gave to us before going outside in the summer couldn&#8217;t be more fitting: &#8220;hydrate, hydrate, hydrate&#8221;. If only the state could do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Texas hit a milestone in its recovery from drought: no portion of the state was any longer in the worst &#8220;exceptional&#8221; stage of drought.\u00a0\u00a0 The news this week is not quite as good. The drought has returned to some previously drought-free parts of Texas. A greater amount of the state &#8211; seven percent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,140],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14159,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions\/14159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}