{"id":72,"date":"2023-10-26T17:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T16:32:07","slug":"colorado-river-basin-drought-status-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Colorado River Basin Drought Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5;width:140px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Image-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Drought<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Integrated Drought Information System<\/a>&nbsp;updates the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/watersheds\/colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colorado River Basin<\/a>&nbsp;drought status every Thursday with current data from the previous Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s update marks an increase in overall areas in some form of drought at 36.58%, up from last week&#8217;s 35.17%. All drought categories from D1 to D4 experienced increases as the region prepares to transition into the cooler seasons. The exceptional drought stricken areas continuing to remain in the southeast part of the basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"761\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-26-2023a-761x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-26-2023a-761x1024.png 761w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-26-2023a-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-26-2023a-768x1034.png 768w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-26-2023a-1141x1536.png 1141w, https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/u.s.-drought-monitor_-colorado-river-basin-10-26-2023a.png 1472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;National Integrated Drought Information System&nbsp;updates the&nbsp;Colorado River Basin&nbsp;drought status every Thursday with current data from the previous Tuesday. Today&#8217;s update marks an increase in overall areas in some form of drought at 36.58%, up from last week&#8217;s 35.17%. All drought categories from D1 to D4 experienced increases as the region prepares to transition into the &#8230; <a title=\"Colorado River Basin Drought Status\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/?p=72\" aria-label=\"More on Colorado River Basin Drought Status\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernwaterwatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}