Noticed DaveMN was posting about being dry. SE Ohio has seen more than it's fair share of rain this summer. We have not had a full week without rain. Just finished first cutting hay last week. I would have been glad to trade some rainy days for sunny ones. What areas are hurting due to drought?
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I am about 75 miles NE of DaveMN, and although we are not quite as bad as his area, we are certainly dry. Chopped 3/4 of our corn for silage this last weekend as there was no hope of it making harvest corn, and already bought some hay that was priced realistically so I would have enough to feed the beef cow herd this winter.
The tan areas of MN and Iowa have more or less had a 3 year period with way too much rain for one month in spring, followed by no rain at all for the rest of summer and fall.
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You can see it on the trees now, they are starting to look bad. Too wet, THRN too dry.
Crops are in trouble on lighter ground, they are only hurt on better wet ground. The trouble is, spring was so very wet many of those acres never got planted.
West of Iowa is again turning dry in the map, but they tend to always be a little dry, and depend on irrigation for their good acres, so they are very dry, but that is kinda normal.
I've heard folks from Ohio say they were in the garden spot until mid August, and now even they have dried up, hurting the grain fill now.
Anyhow, in my part of southern Minnesota, this is the 3rd year in a row, perhaps 20-40 bu lower on corn, from the extreme dry midsummer to fall.
Paul
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You can see it on the trees now, they are starting to look bad. Too wet, THRN too dry.
Crops are in trouble on lighter ground, they are only hurt on better wet ground. The trouble is, spring was so very wet many of those acres never got planted.
West of Iowa is again turning dry in the map, but they tend to always be a little dry, and depend on irrigation for their good acres, so they are very dry, but that is kinda normal.
I've heard folks from Ohio say they were in the garden spot until mid August, and now even they have dried up, hurting the grain fill now.
Anyhow, in my part of southern Minnesota, this is the 3rd year in a row, perhaps 20-40 bu lower on corn, from the extreme dry midsummer to fall.
Paul
Bill in IL
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Central Illinois just west of peoria. Its dry here. Corn has done ok in this area but test weight I think will be low. I would guess beans will be small even though they look good. Have not had any rain on the farm since 1 or 2 august. It quit raining sometime early june. Very little rain in july. Some areas north of us have had a few spotty rains that we did not get. Pastures and hay ground are growing slowly. Lawn is brown and crunchy.
GeneMO
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Northern one third of Missouri
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Here in mid eastern SD, corn that was planted will be real good as there was rain in July to finish it, not so much for the beans, as I think I had a total of 1/2" from mid july to today, so beans will be light. I think we are dryer than the drought monitor indicates.
casecollectorsc
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- E central SD.
East central SoDak very dry. Last measureable rain was July 14. Beans and corn turning. Many pods not filled on beans and small kernals and ears on corn. Quite a bit of silage cut.
37chief
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- California
Southern California. Stan
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Where I am in Missouri the Lake of the Ozarks area the first part of Aug. we had floods but now we are said to be in a drought again. Had 15 inches of rain in one week but then have not had much if any since. Plus have had heat indexes of 100 plus for the last of Aug
Hal/ Eastern WA
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It is pretty dry in Eastern Washington, but we expect it to be dry this time of the year. Some years we get no rain at all between about July 10 and September 15. This year we have had several rains during the normally dry period, though not enough to really amount to anything. I think one of the rains stopped the wheat harvest for a few days.
We worry about lightning storms and the wildfires they can cause during the dry season. We have had several loud thunderstorms nearby, but I have not heard of any large fires getting started.
According to the weather forecast, we might be in for a thunderstorm tonight and it is supposed to rain quite a bit of the time tomorrow. The weather people say there is a huge low pressure system off the coast that is sending us lots of clouds--the first such system of the season. I sure hope it rains a lot.
Again, according to the weather people, we have got about 2/3 of the average precipitation we usually get in 2013. Our Winter was fairly mild and dry, without a whole bunch of snow. But apparently the ground was not frozen too bad and the thaw came slowly, because there was not nearly as much runoff as usual. The melted snow must have sunk into the ground pretty well, since the crops looked real good this year. It also helped that we got nice rains at the right times in the late Spring/early Summer.
In general, this is a pretty dry area. I think the average yearly precipitation is under 15 inches, and 20 inches would be a very wet year. For many crops, there is usually enough moisture to do OK with just what the weather gives us. But with the very dry late Summers, if you want to get second and third cuttings of hay, you better have a system to irrigate.
Yup, pretty dry here. I hope that changes in the next couple of days!
We worry about lightning storms and the wildfires they can cause during the dry season. We have had several loud thunderstorms nearby, but I have not heard of any large fires getting started.
According to the weather forecast, we might be in for a thunderstorm tonight and it is supposed to rain quite a bit of the time tomorrow. The weather people say there is a huge low pressure system off the coast that is sending us lots of clouds--the first such system of the season. I sure hope it rains a lot.
Again, according to the weather people, we have got about 2/3 of the average precipitation we usually get in 2013. Our Winter was fairly mild and dry, without a whole bunch of snow. But apparently the ground was not frozen too bad and the thaw came slowly, because there was not nearly as much runoff as usual. The melted snow must have sunk into the ground pretty well, since the crops looked real good this year. It also helped that we got nice rains at the right times in the late Spring/early Summer.
In general, this is a pretty dry area. I think the average yearly precipitation is under 15 inches, and 20 inches would be a very wet year. For many crops, there is usually enough moisture to do OK with just what the weather gives us. But with the very dry late Summers, if you want to get second and third cuttings of hay, you better have a system to irrigate.
Yup, pretty dry here. I hope that changes in the next couple of days!
Dave from MN
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Very hard to see the potential of fertility and hybrid selection. Same hybrids on the one pic with the difference from some moisture in subsoil, and 95% the little ones. Also, a pic of a great performer, but just too long with out rain and the ears dropped and the cobs are worthless
Chuck (CA)
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Central Valley, CA, Haven't really seen any rain since last February, but for here, that's not really unusual.
uncle henry
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most of texas is under a burn ban but so far here its not as bad as 2011
One of the craziest weather years I've ever seen in southwest and western Missouri....Cold and wet from the end of January to June 17th...All crops got planted late....4-7" of snow on May 3rd..
No rain for 33 days from June 17th to July 20th....From July 20th until Aug 9th we got nearly 13" of rain with most of it running off and causing flooding..
Since Aug 9th we have only had .10" of rain and its getting very hot and dry again....There is no rain in sight for the next 10 days....Looks like the soybean crop will be poor..
No rain for 33 days from June 17th to July 20th....From July 20th until Aug 9th we got nearly 13" of rain with most of it running off and causing flooding..
Since Aug 9th we have only had .10" of rain and its getting very hot and dry again....There is no rain in sight for the next 10 days....Looks like the soybean crop will be poor..
Been dry in southern Idaho. Getting some storms now. We've had some big fires they are just getting under control. Now we're having flash flood warnings because the vegetation was burned off.
Our snow pack for this year was not good and they cut off irrigation water one month early. Some farmers planned well so they aren't hurt. Next year will be the deal breaker if we don't get a good snow pack. Southwestern Idaho relies on lake storage and Snake river flows for water. If it wasn't for a canal system, there wouldn't be any farming, we're high desert.
Our snow pack for this year was not good and they cut off irrigation water one month early. Some farmers planned well so they aren't hurt. Next year will be the deal breaker if we don't get a good snow pack. Southwestern Idaho relies on lake storage and Snake river flows for water. If it wasn't for a canal system, there wouldn't be any farming, we're high desert.
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Yep flood one week in Aug to drought in the next week. My garden has done the worse it ever has in 30 years this year and the 2nd cutting of hay is not going to be all that good due to this crazy weather. Still has me thinking there is something to do with the gov and what has been said about them doing experiments with the weather
Eldon (WA)
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Hal you can have the rain....it really screws up our roadside produce sales. I love the hot dry summers, will take the heat any day! Of course we have cheap irrigation water here in the valley. We have record crops this year, including great melons!
Guys, I have been saying This till I am Blue in the Face, tired of saying it is Dry, Dry, Dry In Central Texas, A 1in rain will not do too much unless it comes in multiples of 1 to 2 in of rain. We are Still over a year and 1/2 of rain Behind on rain. Area Lakes are at Record Lows!, most all creeks are Dry, even most rivers are are a snail pace.
H3LL!!!!
My Well went Dry last November IF Any of Y'all care to know, been buying water from a local company at 2000 gal per load about 3/month.
Like I said earlier in the year,
The Drought in the mid west last year.....Is a Speed bump to Us Here , an annoyance, We wouldn't even bother to write home to Mother about! And that thing made National News, Not the one here in Texas and...... OBTW.... is still on going!
Dry doesn't begin to describe how Dry it is. We have had a few showers around and we look OK for this time of year but nothing to help the Ground water situation, it is still bleak here!!
Later,
John A.
H3LL!!!!
My Well went Dry last November IF Any of Y'all care to know, been buying water from a local company at 2000 gal per load about 3/month.
Like I said earlier in the year,
The Drought in the mid west last year.....Is a Speed bump to Us Here , an annoyance, We wouldn't even bother to write home to Mother about! And that thing made National News, Not the one here in Texas and...... OBTW.... is still on going!
Dry doesn't begin to describe how Dry it is. We have had a few showers around and we look OK for this time of year but nothing to help the Ground water situation, it is still bleak here!!
Later,
John A.
Extremely dry in Eastern and Southeast Iowa. Drought started during the fall of 2011. Seems like the last couple of years we eventually get rain to call off the drought but we run out during the growing season. Crops have been dying prematurely for about 2 weeks on decent soils, 3 weeks on tight clay soils, and 4 weeks on sandy soils. Most say that the corn will be decent (but way short) due to June rains, but soybeans are another story - no moisture to fill the pods. Even if it rains now some of the soybean plants have died or are so stressed I don't think they will come back. West Chester and Keota, Iowa are some of the worst communities in my neck of the woods I am told. Neighbor told me entire fields of corn look ready to harvest.
BAnNC
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- Western North Carolina
NOT DRY HERE! West. NC is on a record year for rainfall. Have already broken the all time record and still have 4 months to go.
This will give you an idea of the dry areas. I live in SE MN, hasn't rained here for a month.
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Southern Ray
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way down south by the border in the D4 space
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
Yep. Red Willow and Frontier counties, are always dry, even right after we're soaked!
Storms get caught in the river valleys down in Kansas, or in the Platte valley, and what does escape the Platte usually gets funneled past us by the Medicine.
Storms get caught in the river valleys down in Kansas, or in the Platte valley, and what does escape the Platte usually gets funneled past us by the Medicine.
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