{"id":387916,"date":"2026-01-03T00:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387916\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:35:19","slug":"moderate-drought-abnormally-dry-conditions-now-expected-to-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387916\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Drought \/ Abnormally Dry Conditions Now Expected to Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The moderate Drought conditions affecting some 2\/3 of Sheboygan County for the past month or so have not been lessened by recent rain and snowfall according to NOAA\u2019s Drought Information System.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report released on New Year\u2019s Day says that areas not in drought, the southern third, are abnormally dry.<\/p>\n<p>Less than an inch of moisture fell on Sheboygan County this past week, and over the last 30 days only portions of the county achieved normal precipitation.\u00a0 Long-range forecasts for the month of January now predict below normal temperatures and near-normal precipitation, conditions not likely to relieve the dryness for the time being.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-906400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-906400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/30day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3056\" height=\"1076\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-906400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">January Temperature and Precipitation Forecast Map Courtesy of the National Weather Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moderate Drought conditions affecting some 2\/3 of Sheboygan County for the past month or so have not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-387916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}