{"id":907543,"date":"2026-11-06T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907543\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:06:13","slug":"moderate-drought-expands-to-cover-nearly-a-third-of-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/907543\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate drought expands to cover nearly a third of Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Drought conditions are expanding across Vermont after a stretch of below-normal rainfall in much of the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows 32% of Vermont in moderate drought, up from 14% one week earlier. In New Hampshire, the area in moderate drought grew from 33% to 40% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"One week ago versus now\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/YTIYDQKRSRCXHNOBQZEIYBXFEM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>One week ago versus now(Gunnar Consol)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Over the past 90 days, parts of Vermont have received around 50% to 75% of their normal rainfall. Some areas farther north have been closer to normal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Last 90 Days\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/A2Z3CJDVW5CHFLLR2X4KFXXKLY.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Last 90 Days(Gunnar Consol)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Drought conditions have varied across Vermont over the past year, with the latest expansion following a stretch of improvement during the summer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Last year\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/5LURSOBBSVHUZDUJQQERTAJ4NI.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Last year(Gunnar Consol)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The latest update shows a growing portion of Vermont experiencing moderate drought. You can track changing conditions with the Channel 3 First Alert Weather team on-air and online. Stay connected with our free mobile weather app for local forecasts and live radar wherever you travel across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Drought conditions are expanding across Vermont after a stretch of below-normal rainfall in much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[15229,76032,192,20024,3,79,27076,283233,68894,379556,34752,205899],"class_list":["post-907543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-drought-monitor","tag-environment","tag-new-england","tag-news","tag-science","tag-vermont","tag-vermont-drought","tag-vt","tag-vt-weather","tag-wcax","tag-wcax-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907543","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=907543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}