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Since July 2........

we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
edited July 2013 in General Discussion
I have dumped 21.5" of rain out of my rain gage. There is more in store for this weekend. Yesterday evening a storm dropped alittle over 2 inches in about 30 minutes. Probably the hardest rain I have ever seen. Wind and hail knocks a tree down, we had no power until about 1 a.m. Out of the first 26 weekends this year we have had rain in 24 of them. I have never seen anything like this. We had a pretty garden coming along, but now we are harvesting what hasn't went bad. Luckily I planted my corn alittle early this year, I have gotten around 200 ears of corn, with a few more to get this weekend. Hows the weather where you live??[:D]
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Over 40 inches of rain for the year. So much that the garden was a wash. Still have peppers but the rest drowned. Don
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Pretty bad July in my part of Pa. Hot humid and heavy thunder storms. I even had to pump water out of my basement. Usually July you get them pop up storms and they are gone in twenty minutes, not this year.
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  • danielgagedanielgage Member Posts: 10,583 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    where are you?

    we have had decent rain in Arkansas this year
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    5.8" in the first 15 days of July.
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Usual fog in the morning 55 deg here on the central coast of CA. Go inland 10 miles and it's 90-100 deg. That's the norm in my area.

    Minor thunder storms have been up a little from normal, the monsoonal moisture from Baja CA/Mexico has been making its way a tiny bit further north, but not unseen before.
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One inch for the MONTH of July. Central Nebraska
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  • we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by danielgage
    where are you?

    we have had decent rain in Arkansas this year


    WNC about 30 miles east of Asheville
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  • we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by duckhunter
    One inch for the MONTH of July. Central Nebraska


    Duckhuntr, is Nebraska still in a drought? I know some folks in the quarter horse business who have had a rough couple years because of it.
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like its pretty wet there in Djibouti. We had a little rain in May, that's it, nothing since. So dry around here people are putting stamps on letters with safety pins
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,233 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Sounds like the Washington coast.[xx(][xx(][xx(] 100 inches a year.[xx(][xx(][xx(]
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Suppose to rain again tomorrow. Must be like 8 Saturdays in a row.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We started out good with a wet spring, plenty of rain. Now it's dried up, my yard is no longer green. I was having to mow every 5 days now I haven't had to mow in weeks. Pastures look bad and we may have to either buy hay or move the horses.
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  • SawzSawz Member Posts: 6,049
    edited November -1
    .08 of an inch here and not a very good snowpack . its not looking good for us here
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  • dlrjjdlrjj Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lost probably 20 acres of soybeans to flooding, but my three plantings of sweet corn should get me 6-8000 ears.

    Lots to give away, and some to go to waste, like usual.

    * will take a few hundred ears, but I'll take 12-15 * in retaliation.
    Tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is an art form.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the Rainy Pacific North West 0
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Third year of drought for NM. We are having a decent monsoon so far, but it would take 15" of precip to catch us up.

    Remember that the folks who predicted global warming said there would be some areas with drought, some with heavy rain, much more destructive tornados and hurricanes and higher temps overall.

    Good thing they were wrong.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We're looking at 5.8 inches thus far for the month of July... East of Charlotte NC.

    Mosquitoes are about to carry us off !!! [}:)]
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dlrjj
    Lost probably 20 acres of soybeans to flooding, but my three plantings of sweet corn should get me 6-8000 ears.

    Lots to give away, and some to go to waste, like usual.

    * will take a few hundred ears, but I'll take 12-15 * in retaliation.
    Don't forget the damned Corn Monkeys...
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  • we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Another 1.5" last night, cloudy and on and off rain so far this morning......[:(]
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Local area here in Piedmont NC just got hammered with up to 6 inches of rain in just under two hours...
    Several counties now flooded.

    There washes the neighborhoods.... [:0]

    So much for less than six inches for the entire month...
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,285 ******
    edited November -1
    About the same as you, we did it. Best garden I have ever grown. I mow when the sun shines, because I don't know when I'll get another chance.
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Overnight lows of 48 degrees Fahrenheit, overcast, occasional drizzles but nothing substantial.
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  • JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    About two weeks ago, we had a record breaking nine inches of rain in a 24 hr period.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Colder than a well diggers * here. fifty five degrees.
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  • we_dig_itwe_dig_it Member Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by retroxler58
    Local area here in Piedmont NC just got hammered with up to 6 inches of rain in just under two hours...
    Several counties now flooded.

    There washes the neighborhoods.... [:0]

    So much for less than six inches for the entire month...


    Retrox, I heard Catawba county around Hickory(which is 60 miles east of us) got 12 inches Friday night. I saw some of the damage on the news, it was pretty bad. I hate it for those folks, but thankful it missed us. We couldn't stand that much as wet as we are.....

    I wish CNN would get this right, it has been raining nearly everyday for almost 2 months. Some areas have exceeded 600% of their normal rainfall.

    http://us.cnn.com/2013/07/27/us/north-carolina-flooding/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook
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  • cranky2cranky2 Member Posts: 3,236 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Here in western Nebraska we have had real spotty rains. some areas have had 10 inches or more this summer others only 4 or less. So no the drought is not over.
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