Flood warnings

paul · Jul 14, 2013

Flood warnings east and south east of me yesterday, lot of 5 to 8 inch rainfalls.....

Flood watches and warnings west and north of me today, places with 2 inches of rain and still training over them.

What a wet year. After 2 years of drought.

I'm in the middle of all the stuff this year, and while too wet in spring, have missed the horrible weather and am doing pretty good. Just something to see all these torrential rainfalls all around me, 50 miles difference and I could be missing 25-50% of my crop like they are.

Southern Minnesota. Mother Nature is always in charge.

Paul

retired farmer · Jul 14, 2013

It is not Mother Nature now days, it is the U.S. government doing weather experiments trying to use the weather for modern warfare.

old · Jul 14, 2013

Yep odd weather for sure. Do not know if the Gov is playing with it or not but would not be surprised if they where they mess up every thing else. Been to dry down here in Missouri again. Started out nice and had the rain we needed but now it is getting way to dry but it is the middle of summer

Ronald Anderson · Jul 14, 2013

We live between Marshall and Granite Falls -got about 1/2 inch early this morning but could get nailed with flooding by the Yellow Medicine River anyway.
With all the flooding going on over the last 4 years I think it is unusual and wouldn't be surprised to see the gov fingers in it. Way to many 100 years events in the last few years. Guess they will be tryig to tax nature next.

paul · Jul 14, 2013

I know they control the dams a whole lot more than they used to, MN river down here will rise at odd times, no rain for weeks, or go lower, when there is some rain. Town folks lost the connection between rainfall and river heights, so they don't really realize what is controlling the river flow any more....

Paul

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2013

And ain't she a b**ch? All the time I thought it was Ma B***

Spook · Jul 14, 2013

If you guys seriously think the government is controlling the weather, you need to update you need to update to tinfoil hat 2.1 You will feel much better.....

Hay_Man · Jul 14, 2013

I was just commenting earlier today that I've not seen a weather pattern like this one we have today,,,,,a low pressure area coming from east to west bringing rain from the eastern states to Ok. and Tx....? Strange.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 14, 2013

We have received 4 inches so far today nw of Pipestone, most of it soaked in.

47farmallM · Jul 14, 2013

its been reall nice this morning here in northwest dfw. just a solid soaking rain since around 2.. and man we need it... lake Bridgeport is down 18 ft.. even my coastal hay was wilting away.. every feild here that has been cut for hay was brown and dead looking... after this its gonna be back to cuttin hay for a while

rrlund · Jul 14, 2013

Believe it or not,in this heat,we could use some. The center pivots are starting to run. I was hoping we'd get more than we did Tuesday with the heat they were predicting. I knew we'd start to hurt a little if it didn't,and it didn't.

Texasmark1 · Jul 14, 2013

I don't want to sound like a boo bird, but take a look at just one tornado has done to American cities. Add up the weight of the destruction and then add the energy necessary to dislodge and move all that weight from where it was to where it wound up.

The numbers would be staggering and that's just for one tornado, not a season's worth, or winter storm, or hurricane.

Maybe on a sectional/local basis, like seeding thunderstorms in the midwest to reduce the possibility of hail, but on a grand margin, I doubt it. I mean the seeding doesn't kill the storm just makes it less deadly.

Take for example a nice simple 4" rain over how big of an area.

Take 10 miles x10 miles for an area.....100 sq. miles

640 (section) acres per sq. mi = 64000 acres of area

Acre ft = 43560 cu ft; 4" rain = 1/3 or 14520 cu ft per acre

Cu ft of water weighs 62.5#

So, 64000 acres x 14520 cu ft/ac x 62.5# = 58.8,000,000,000# That's Billion, with a B.

And that's just for the numbers I used. How about when half the country is inundated? Gimme a break.

Mark

Nathan (SD) · Jul 14, 2013

My guess is improved drainage dumps the water in the river a lot faster than it used to. A 1 inch rain by Ortonville comes down stream the next 2 days as a surge. Years ago it would take all week for a inch rain to work into the river.

onefarmer · Jul 14, 2013

I've been seeing some corn rolling up and looking dry. Also some soys turning their leaves over. Hard to believe just over a week ago we was wanting some sunshine. St Johns, Mi

rrlund · Jul 14, 2013

Same thing here. The compacted spots in the fields are suffering especially.

NEKS · Jul 15, 2013

Biggest crop of hay I have ever put up in 43 years. Stopped raining three weeks ago. Have not got any hay wet yet. Don't even put a can on the tractors at night anymore. Very dry here.

Ted in NE-OH · Jul 15, 2013

I remember back in the 50"s and 60"s we blamed the different weather patterns on the nuclear bomb testing and now it is blamed on global warming, what will it be next?

onefarmer · Jul 15, 2013

Yep entrance to the fields and such. More so with the big four wheeler BTO guys. Late planted corn seems to be suffering too. How is your late corn?

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