{"id":3884,"date":"2012-07-05T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:58","slug":"its-no-katrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3884","title":{"rendered":"It’s No Katrina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nor is it an earthquake, or a series of lethal tornados, or any other sudden disaster. It is rather a natural disaster in slow motion, creeping and steady and relentless, and apparently not photogenic enough to merit your standard-issue disaster-type media coverage. \"drmon\"
\nThey’ve got maps – along with a twelve week history rolling history of this drought unfolding – right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Along with juicy tidbits like “Looking Ahead: In general, July 4 \u2013 8, 2012 doesn\u2019t look promising in terms of relief, though the intense heat should subside somewhat.”<\/p>\n

Here’s what intense heat subsiding somewhat looks like where I’m at:<\/p>\n

Today Jul 5
\n 101\u00b0F
\n 77\u00b0F
\nMostly Sunny
\nChance of rain:20%Wind: W at 12 mph <\/p>\n

Fri Jul 6
\n 102\u00b0
\n 74\u00b0
\nMostly Sunny
\nChance of rain:10%Wind: WSW at 7 mph <\/p>\n

Sat Jul 7
\n 95\u00b0
\n 67\u00b0
\nIsolated T-Storms
\nChance of rain:30%Wind: N at 15 mph <\/p>\n

Sun Jul 8
\n 83\u00b0
\n 63\u00b0
\nPartly Cloudy
\nChance of rain:20%Wind: NNE at 12 mph <\/p>\n

Mon Jul 9
\n 83\u00b0
\n 60\u00b0
\nSunny
\nChance of rain:0%Wind: NE at 8 mph <\/p>\n

Tue Jul 10
\n 84\u00b0
\n 63\u00b0
\nSunny
\nChance of rain:0%Wind: NE at 8 mph <\/p>\n

Wed Jul 11
\n 86\u00b0
\n 68\u00b0
\nSunny
\nChance of rain:0%Wind: SE at 8 mph <\/p>\n

Thu Jul 12
\n 89\u00b0
\n 66\u00b0
\nSunny
\nChance of rain:0%Wind: S at 8 mph <\/p>\n

Fri Jul 13
\n 89\u00b0
\n 68\u00b0
\nSunny
\nChance of rain:0%Wind: SW at 9 mph <\/p>\n

Sat Jul 14
\n 90\u00b0
\n 71\u00b0
\nSunny
\nChance of rain:0%Wind: SSW at 9 mph <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nor is it an earthquake, or a series of lethal tornados, or any other sudden disaster. It is rather a natural disaster in slow motion, creeping and steady and relentless, and apparently not photogenic enough to merit your standard-issue disaster-type media coverage. They’ve got maps – along with a twelve week history rolling history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[1207,442,1204,1205,1206,545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}