The High Dessert

[3waycross]

For those of you who actually get rain on occasion I thought i would post this for perspective. This is from our local paper today. As you can see, after some real nice rains the last two weeks we are up for July a little over 1/2 in, Believe me when i say it feels like the greatest gift from God that we have seen in a long time!

(Measurement taken at 8 p.m.)

July prcp.: 2.19

July avg. prcp.: 1.60

2013 prcp. to date: 5.62

Avg. Jan.-July prcp.: 6.27

Average high: 84.3

Average low: 47.6


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[greybeard]

Average high: 84.3

Average low: 47.6

Are those the average temps for July or the annual average?

 

[3waycross]

Average high: 84.3

Average low: 47.6

Are those the average temps for July or the annual average?

July

 

[Jogeephus]

Geesh, 47 in July. Its been a cool July here because of the cloud cover averaging in the 80's. Clouds are gone now and its hot.

 

[melking]

From the lower swamps.... Average rainfall july 8.98 inches 2013 rainfall july to date 10. 78 inches

 

[Dave]

From the rain forest. Average July rainfall 0.74 in. This year July rainfall 0.0 in.

Normal rainfall Jan to this date 26.59. This year Jan to this date 21.42

 

[hillbilly beef man]

July 15.67, average 4.82. We are already over our yearly average of 40 inches. No wonder I am still not even close to getting my first cutting up.

 

[greybeard]

Geesh, 47 in July. Its been a cool July here because of the cloud cover averaging in the 80's. Clouds are gone now and its hot.

Ain't that the truth--47 deg in July!!! I'm envious, but won't be when I see the average for Jan Feb Mar.

We have lots of clouds here, which automatically open up like a floodgate to let the blazing sun thru the minute I go out on a fence or tractor.
Must be some kind of micro-switch in the ground I'm walking or driving over........

 

[Bigfoot]

3way,

Do you do anything to capitolize on the extra rainfall? I had a very blessed year for rainfall. I wanted to buy some extra stockers or something. In the end I never even finished my first cutting of hay.

 

[Deepsouth]

I get that July average everyday!

 

[ga.prime]

We have lots of clouds here, which automatically open up like a floodgate to let the blazing sun thru the minute I go out on a fence or tractor.
Must be some kind of micro-switch in the ground I'm walking or driving over........

That's the same weather pattern I'm getting. Putting up 12 rolls of barbed wire- we get working on the fence and the sun shines. After a half hour of that, on the brink of heat stroke, we have to stop and get under a shade tree for 15 minutes to recover. While we're in the shade, the sun goes behind the clouds and stays there until we get back on the fence. Been that way two weeks now.

 

[3waycross]

3way,

Do you do anything to capitolize on the extra rainfall? I had a very blessed year for rainfall. I wanted to buy some extra stockers or something. In the end I never even finished my first cutting of hay.

Naw it didn't amount to that much. We were so far behind earlier it just soaked in.

 

[Commercialfarmer]

Glad you finally got a little. It was nice to see green grass and flesh on cattle almost all the way through the TX panhandle and eastern NM. I don't think I've seen Amarillo that green in late July.

Its sure better than the opposite. I don't know much of anything more depressing than to see miles and miles of boney cattle and brown clumps where there should be grass, even if they're not yours.

I know the guys down south are getting your fill, but I went through a small patch of about 40 miles that missed all this rain. It just takes a second or two of seeing that to feel like you're Ebenezer and the ghost of droughts past has you. It'll give you nightmares again and appreciate every drop you get.

 

[Kingfisher]

Yea that rain greened the desert up between Brownwood and Midland. Can lull you into thinking " it's kinda nice here...