{"id":602610,"date":"2026-04-24T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:29:08","slug":"loudoun-county-moves-into-severe-drought-stage-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602610\/","title":{"rendered":"Loudoun County Moves into Severe Drought Stage | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Drought Monitor project today declared severe drought conditions in most of Loudoun County after a month of below-average rainfall and above-average temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Loudoun has experienced drought or abnormally dry conditions for 43 of the past 52 weeks, and every week since Aug. 19, 2025, according to the database.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that the county has been classified as experiencing severe drought since February.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 92% of Virginia is experiencing severe drought conditions. An area of south-central Virginia is in extreme drought, according to the assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Drought Monitor project today declared severe drought conditions in most of Loudoun County after a month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,75767,3,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-602610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-loudoun","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}