{"id":646020,"date":"2026-05-16T04:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:07:15","slug":"ellis-county-in-severe-drought-as-of-latest-drought-map-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646020\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis County in severe drought as of latest drought map release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto w-full sm:w-full md:w-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778859857925.png\" alt=\"&lt;br&gt;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By CRISTINA JANNEY<br \/>Hays Post<\/p>\n<p>Ellis County was listed as being in severe drought as of Thursday when the Kansas Drought Monitor map was released.<\/p>\n<p>The map includes precipitation through Tuesday, May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Hays has received about a half inch of rain in May, a fraction of the 3.33 inches the city receives in an average year.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Hays has received 3.42 inches of rain, but the average precipitation through the end of May for Hays is\u00a07.92 inches.<\/p>\n<p>Rain is in the forecast for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Hays has a 20% chance of rain Sunday night and Monday, a 30% chance of rain on Monday night and chances of rain again on Wednesday night and Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CRISTINA JANNEYHays Post Ellis County was listed as being in severe drought as of Thursday when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-646020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646020","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=646020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}