{"id":60693,"date":"2021-11-27T07:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60693"},"modified":"2021-11-27T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T12:37:44","slug":"how-dry-i-am-four-types-of-drought-and-how-they-can-affect-gardeners-and-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60693","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow dry I am \u201c: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cHow dry I am \u201c: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Linda\u2019s post last week about \u201cdrought-resistant\u201d plants made me think about drought and how different types of drought affect gardeners in different ways. In her\u00a0article<\/a>, she defined drought as \u201can unusual lack of rainfall\u201d. This is one of four different kinds of drought that climatologists talk about, and I thought it might be interesting for you to hear about how the four (or maybe five) types of drought differ and how they affect gardeners in diverse ways. A great source of drought information across the U.S. is\u00a0https:\/\/www.drought.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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360\u00b0 panorama of the northern end on the lake bed of a drying\u00a0Lake Albert<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Wagga Wagga<\/a>,\u00a0New South Wales<\/a>,\u00a0Australia<\/a>, source: Bidgee, Commons Wikimedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meteorological drought<\/h4>\n

The first type of drought, the one Linda described last week, is what climatologists consider a\u00a0meteorological drought<\/em>. A meteorological drought is related to how much rain you get compared to usual conditions at your location. I like to think of it as \u201ctoo many days of nice weather in a row\u201d, since in these dry conditions, the sun is shining and it is a great time to garden, play golf, or do construction. Of course, if you don\u2019t get rain for a long time, you start to see impacts on plants, water bodies, and wells, but meteorological drought is usually not identified in terms of impacts, just on the amount of precipitation measured over weeks, months or years. Meteorological droughts look different depending on where you are. It is possible to have drought even in a desert if rain does not fall over an unusually long time…<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow dry I am \u201c: Four types of drought and how they can affect gardeners and gardens Linda\u2019s post last week about \u201cdrought-resistant\u201d plants made me think about drought and how different types of drought affect gardeners in different ways. In her\u00a0article, she defined drought as \u201can unusual lack of rainfall\u201d. This is one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[220,1912,346,6401,31361],"class_list":["post-60693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-drought","tag-food-production","tag-gardening","tag-precipitation","tag-the-garden-professors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60694,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60693\/revisions\/60694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}