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Post by xdrix on Jun 13, 2023 13:38:14 GMT -5
Hot and dry.
The grass at roadsides is totally dry.
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Post by flowerbug on Jun 19, 2023 6:31:18 GMT -5
still no significant rains here, grass is all going dormant, gardens are going by keeping watered but they would really do better with some rain. no rain in the forecast until this coming weekend. will not believe it until i see it hit the ground. last week we had an entire day of chances of rain that ended up being five rounds of just a few sprinkles each time - better than nothing, but not by much.
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Post by RpR on Jun 25, 2023 19:27:44 GMT -5
Every thing is brown here but we finally got at least an inch of rain in the past two days.
First time all summer the garden has had wet soil from down till dust and again the next day.wh
We have had summers like this in the past where rain goes around us but last winter long wet winter has so far been a saving grace for farmers.
Dry winters in the past would have had corn fields without irrigation by this time of year the blue-grey color of death.
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Post by flowerbug on Jun 26, 2023 17:16:36 GMT -5
thank goodness we've also got some rains out of this swirly of a storm. i think it actually wrapped around and came through more than once and it looks like we're about to get some more. all welcome it has mostly soaked in already. our well is pretty deep, but i was getting really worried about it going dry. the two large ditches got down to running very very little (less than a gallon or two per second even if i combined the flows), but i'm sure they're doing much better now.
i was also getting worried about all of the plants i've not been able to water.
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Post by thegeneral on Jul 6, 2023 11:49:50 GMT -5
It had been a dryer but cooler year, up until a few weeks ago, when it started with downpours. Now its been so moist its been difficult to mow the grass. Some of the downpours where crazy intense, this whole week has chances of rain, chances of rain from which we have been seeing some rain.
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Post by RpR on Jul 8, 2023 11:00:44 GMT -5
It cooled down for hte past few days, but warmer weather is forecast to return.
Not as horridly high as we had but above average.
We had some rain again but still are inches short from average.
At that corn was shoulder high by the Fourth of July.
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Post by flowerbug on Jul 12, 2023 15:54:52 GMT -5
i'm hoping current rains heading towards us actually do happen, but i don't count them until i see it hit the ground. warm for a few days, cooler today, which is nice, i should have gotten outside and did something but, well, didn't... yesterday was more active so i'm taking a breather today.  gardens looking pretty good now with the rains and of course that means more weeds so i'm going to keep being busy with the scraper for all these. |
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Post by xdrix on Jul 14, 2023 9:44:34 GMT -5
We have had a very hot week.
Up to 22°C 71,6°F at 5 o clock AM and up to 37°C 98,6°F the afternoon without wind the night.
Fortunately we have had some thunderstorms
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Post by RpR on Jul 26, 2023 21:12:40 GMT -5
Hot and humid now; while my South garden fifty miles south of here had 3 inches of rain, up here we had one-quarter inch and are still inches short of necessay moisture.
Corn fields up here show the blue grey color of death.
Any rain probably too late.
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Post by thegeneral on Aug 18, 2023 11:18:44 GMT -5
It seems more then not, to get completely dry between rain spells, here. It was enough rain for the corn to make something, which i yielded some from lateley, i've seen other corn plots with success this year also. It always seems like everywhere else gets more rain then my location, with storms going all around. I could have tried, but it seems by the time it is to plant cowpeas and peanuts, its too dry for me to try. One of the reasons i plant corn so early is establish a root system before heat and drought. Suppose to be fairly hot and dry the next week, before hope of rain in the 2 week forecast.
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Post by RpR on Sept 20, 2023 17:29:42 GMT -5
We need inches of rain or feet of snow for next year.
Weather now is close to average, a little above but we are inches short of moisture for the year.
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Post by flowerbug on Dec 24, 2023 18:21:38 GMT -5
time to change the title of the thread again? foggy this morning up to mid-50sF tomorrow and for a day or two after that and rains, changing later in the week to more seasonal (i.e. colder, chances of snow). hope everyone has a nice holiday season! |
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Post by xdrix on Dec 25, 2023 11:53:24 GMT -5
Stranger weather, some frost up to -6°C 21,2°F at end november and started december and now up to 13°C 55,4°F the next days with rain.
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Post by flowerbug on Dec 27, 2023 9:00:18 GMT -5
just a bit of sunshine here or there would be nice to see. forecast is cloudy and rainy until Saturday. maybe we'll get some colder weather next week.
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Post by thegeneral on Dec 28, 2023 11:21:14 GMT -5
We where in the largest drought since 2017, we had a few forest fires, but it just really got dry when it started to cool off for year, so the fires weren’t to big. 2 or 3 weeks ago we got 2 inches of rain, it had been dry for I think more then a month. Last week we were forecasted 2 inches, but the rain never materialized. Christmas was pose to rain, 1-2 inches, but the rain stalled again, we got maybe a half inch before night. In the morning I had 4 inches of rain in a bucket I keep out for measuring rain. I wasn’t so hopeful and it surprised me. We maybe got 4.25 inches. This year is a good bit cooler then last, so that helped with drought. We get here on average an inch a week, 52 inches per year, but it makes me wonder how many rain events, are 2-4 inches and how many are an inch a week, it would be an interesting piece of info. I have always followed the rain as I use to be a whitewater kayaker, and only in flood do the hard class V creeks, have enough water. Other then climate change relatively causing more precipitation, they also note that torrential rainfall, like we had, will become more common.
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