{"id":672657,"date":"2026-05-29T18:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672657\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:37:19","slug":"recent-rainfall-has-improved-drought-conditions-across-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672657\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent rainfall has improved drought conditions across Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KENTUCKY (WKYT) &#8211; Kentucky\u2019s drought status has improved after the latest update from the National Integrated Drought Information System Update on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most of the state is in severe drought, with pockets of moderate drought in central and eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There are also a few isolated pockets of extreme drought.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Recent rainfall has improved drought conditions across Kentucky\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AWE3APHDUVG5PPAQY25XLEG5RU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"734\" \/>Recent rainfall has improved drought conditions across Kentucky(Kentucky Mesonet Facebook photo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Kentucky Mesonet, nearly half of the commonwealth emerged from an extreme drought thanks to recent heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Some parts of Kentucky have seen over 5 inches since last week.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyt.com\/page\/wkyt-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WKYT Streaming Apps\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780079839_565_MEPHTWNVMREWLEQQWWFJM27ZMA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WKYT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KENTUCKY (WKYT) &#8211; Kentucky\u2019s drought status has improved after the latest update from the National Integrated Drought Information&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15229,192,569,293438,293439,79],"class_list":["post-672657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-environment","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-drought","tag-kentucky-drought-improvement","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672657","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=672657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}