{"id":213959,"date":"2026-01-02T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T23:37:14","slug":"moderate-drought-abnormally-dry-conditions-now-expected-to-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213959\/","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\/nz\/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":213960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-213959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}