{"id":269,"date":"2016-05-27T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/?p=269"},"modified":"2016-05-27T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T20:17:50","slug":"visualizing-the-highs-and-lows-of-lake-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/visualizing-the-highs-and-lows-of-lake-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the Highs and Lows of Lake Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Mead, above the Hoover Dam, is at its lowest level since it was first filled in 1937, and it has reached this record low two years in a row. Given that its lowest level generally occurs during late June or July, the lake level will likely continue dropping.<\/p>\n<p>The following images show the lake at its full capacity (May 1984) and at its new low (May 2016). At present, Lake Mead is ~37% full due to ongoing drought in the southwest.<\/p>\n<p>For more, included an image comparison, visit NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=88099&amp;eocn=home&amp;eoci=iotd_readmore\">Earth Observatory<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_270\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_tm5_1984136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-image-270 \" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_tm5_1984136-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"lakemead_tm5_1984136\" width=\"278\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_tm5_1984136-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_tm5_1984136.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 1984 &#8211; Lake Mead at full capacity<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_271\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_oli_2016144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-image-271 \" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_oli_2016144-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"lakemead_oli_2016144\" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_oli_2016144-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/files\/2016\/05\/lakemead_oli_2016144.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 2016 &#8211; Lake Mead at present low level<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Mead, above the Hoover Dam, is at its lowest level since it was first filled in 1937, and it has reached this record low two years in a row. Given that its lowest level generally occurs during late June &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/visualizing-the-highs-and-lows-of-lake-mead\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}