Soon we could have a drought

[1982vett]

There's a thunder storm attempting to rumble through here right now, but it just keeps getting skinnierthe clsoer it gets. But the temp did come down from 105 to 82 with the winds and clouds and all.

Hubby said there was a little shower up in Bates County this afternoon, Dun -- emphasis on LITTLE. Hope you -- all of you that need it -- get some precip soon. With temps warming up here, and a steady "breeze" most of the time, it won't take long to start drying up on this side of the Cascade Range.

Conventional wisdom is that around here you're never more ten 10 days from a drought. We didn;t get anything and yet Springfield had street flooding.

Around here the weather idiots tell us rain is just 10 days away.........sometimes it narrows down to 3, but mostly it's just a bunch of hot air.

[slick4591]

We had a little storm come through yesterday from the North East. Cooled it from 98 to 71 in a couple of hours. Only got .47" out of it but that was more than I initially anticipated. Still have small rain chances over the next three days.

[RD-Sam]

Georgia has been in a drought for 3 years.

[greybeard]

You'll know when a sho nuff drought comes. Ya catch a channel catfish and he's got 3-4 ticks hangin off his belly. It rained a little last night and about 1/2" yesterday.

[Ruark]

There's a thunder storm attempting to rumble through here right now, but it just keeps getting skinnierthe clsoer it gets. But the temp did come down from 105 to 82 with the winds and clouds and all.

Same thing here. We have big, dark, ugly clouds drifting up, with high wind and lightning and dark sheets of rain under them, but they dissolve before they get to our place. Haven't had a drop. Pastures are spiderwebbed with 2-inch cracks.

[dun]

There's a thunder storm attempting to rumble through here right now, but it just keeps getting skinnierthe clsoer it gets. But the temp did come down from 105 to 82 with the winds and clouds and all.

Same thing here. We have big, dark, ugly clouds drifting up, with high wind and lightning and dark sheets of rain under them, but they dissolve before they get to our place. Haven't had a drop. Pastures are spiderwebbed with 2-inch cracks.

A neighbor said that you could lose a logging chain in the cracks in his pasture. I'm just glad we're not calving now, it would be awful to lose a calf in a crack in the ground

[dun]

Well it looks like the drought is broken, at least for now. Got almost a whole tenth of an inch last night!
It figures, the other farm (10 miles away) got over an inch.

[robertwhite]

3rd time it has stormed in 3 days here in SW TN. Short storms but long enough to create puddles in spots. They are calling for more rain of this sort all week. The pastures actually appear to be greening up a bit. It will take a lot more rain to make them grow, but with the cooler weather it just may happen. Just maybe, the decision of keeping or selling the herd will not have to be made.

I hope you guys are getting some of this weather.

[greybeard]

Maybe it will be improving. My brother said it poured at his place near Little Rock last night and we've been getting rain for the last several days--not a deluge, but way ahead of last year from the looks of things.

[Goodlife]

I saw a report from Drought Monitor stating:

61% of the area covered by the lower 48 states are experiencing drought conditions.

50% of America's pastures amd ranges are in poor or very poor condition, up from 28% in June.

1016 Counties in 26 states have been declared disaster areas due to the drought. A county is considered a disaster area after 8 consecutive weeks of severe drought.

We are in a drought here in S. Illinois, and it has been very dry around here. However they were able to get the Corn in early enough this spring that is looks pretty good still. The locals (not me, don't farm) should get a great price for their corn at least.

[jedstivers]

I saw a report from Drought Monitor stating:

61% of the area covered by the lower 48 states are experiencing drought conditions.

50% of America's pastures amd ranges are in poor or very poor condition, up from 28% in June.

1016 Counties in 26 states have been declared disaster areas due to the drought. A county is considered a disaster area after 8 consecutive weeks of severe drought.

We are in a drought here in S. Illinois, and it has been very dry around here. However they were able to get the Corn in early enough this spring that is looks pretty good still. The locals (not me, don't farm) should get a great price for their corn at least.

IL doesn't have a corn crop left
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[kjonesel]

We had .85" and the temps have dropped but I'm still feeding hay. I hope to have some land this late fall that is in hay production that I will be able to pasture. I am hoping for some rain this fall to bring some hay out on some hay that I wasn't intending to cut. We will wait and see.

[fitz]

The showers have been pretty much going around us here. I'm doing all I know to do. Have been mowing (what's suppose to be) hay for two days. Both days watched rain follow along the other side of the mountains.Wishing all that need it moisture soon.

fitz

[ousoonerfan22]

Same thing here the storms seem to split and go around us or follow a track just to the east or west of us.It did rain this evening for maybe 2-3 minutes and barely wet the grass but that's better than nothing.

[Isomade]

Same thing here the storms seem to split and go around us or follow a track just to the east or west of us.It did rain this evening for maybe 2-3 minutes and barely wet the grass but that's better than nothing.

It's almost like you live in my house. 2 miles east and west are getting good rains, it just splits here.