{"id":3665,"date":"2018-02-10T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2018-02-10T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:46:37","slug":"evening-update-wet-weather-drench-drought-laden-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/10\/evening-update-wet-weather-drench-drought-laden-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Update: Wet Weather to Drench Drought-laden Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drenching rain rolled through the College Park area, thanks to a low-pressure system, that will mitigate the drought that&#8217;s been grasping the region. Although today and tomorrow&#8217;s temperatures will remain relatively mild, this amount of precipitation coupled with last weekend&#8217;s temperatures would have made for a winter wonderland with all the projected rainfall we are supposed to get. \u00a0The steady rain will persist into the remainder of the weekend, so curling up with a good book may be the best course of action.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3666\" style=\"width: 1066px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3666\" class=\"wp-image-3666 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180206_MD_text.jpg\" width=\"1056\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180206_MD_text.jpg 1056w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180206_MD_text-500x386.jpg 500w, https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/20180206_MD_text-800x618.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1056px) 100vw, 1056px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A lot of the region has experienced at least a moderate drought for the past couple weeks. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/CurrentMap\/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?MD\">National Drought Monitoring Center<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Through Tonight:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dreary conditions continue as night falls with some periods of heavy rain possible as well. Temperatures will hover around the upper-4os, paired with a constant southwesterly wind around 5-8 mph. Our much-needed rain will likely accumulate to 1-2 inches, with localities exceeding 2 inches. Patches of fog will also roll in tonight and linger through the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow (Sunday):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sunday morning and rain is (still) falling&#8221; will be the case for the latter half of our weekend (if you get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S2Cti12XBw4\">the reference<\/a>.) Temperatures will rise to the low-to-mid 60s, aided by a southerly wind, 6-10 mph. Rainfall will begin to taper by mid-afternoon, but still expect widespread showers to keep dampening the region. Another half-inch of rain could contribute to the total weekend rainfall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3667\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3667\" class=\"wp-image-3667 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/d12_fill.gif\" width=\"750\" height=\"562\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Projected rainfall through the end of the weekend. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/#page=qpf\">WPC\/NOAA<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/trickle-non-cloud-raindrops-2654887\/\">Pixabay<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drenching rain rolled through the College Park area, thanks to a low-pressure system, that will mitigate the drought that&#8217;s been grasping the region. Although today and tomorrow&#8217;s temperatures will remain relatively mild, this amount of precipitation coupled with last&hellip; <br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/10\/evening-update-wet-weather-drench-drought-laden-region\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,79,91,14,48,45],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-discussion","tag-college-park","tag-drought","tag-fog","tag-heavy-rain","tag-umd","tag-umd-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/trickle-2654887_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weather.umd.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}