O/T How's your weather?

redbone · Jul 26, 2008

Well here in Upstate South Carolina, same old story, no, I repeat NO Rain. Haven"t had over an inch of rain since April. Newspaper said mandatory water restrictions start next week. Trees dying, lakes dry.

No joke-Clemson SC city employees were sent with their mowers to cut the grass in the lakebed of Lake Hartwell-about 20 feet below full. They are actually tearing the dam down where we get our water so the people downstream can have some. It doesn"t even come up thunderstorms anymore. And Livestock owners are already having to feed with hay-no pasture left. 10 years of drought and no sign of relief.

But enough about our troubles, how"s your weather?

Matt Waddell · Jul 26, 2008

We (north Mississippi) just got some rain today. 1st time in about six weeks. It was a good soaker too, real good for the peas! Maybe its headed your way.

504-2 · Jul 26, 2008

North Mo 4in this week, and we do not need it.

DR Darren · Jul 26, 2008

where in upstate are you? i am in York County.

Larry in GA. · Jul 26, 2008

It has been dry here also the last couple years and up tell the middle of July. Mid June tell 15 July we had 1.13 inches but starting with the 15 of July we have done well. tonight at about 6 we got 0.4 inches bringing our total for the last half of July to 4.96 inches. Best July we have had in a long time, but to late for the crops that didn't have irrigation.
Larry

Richard G. · Jul 26, 2008

Redbone, where do you live?
I am in Oconee county and we are beginning to get showers the last few weeks. What dam are they breaking to get more water? The reason Hartwell and the other lakes will not fill up is the huge amount of evaporation from the surfaces of all the lakes and all the water being pumped out to cities like Greenville.
The lakes are the worst thing to happen to our area.
Richard

Anonymous-0 · Jul 26, 2008

Last year I ran water to the garden quite a bit.

This year it started off dry, and started irrigating real early...early June. Since then, return to normal.

Had 3" of rain this past week, 1" most weeks before that.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 26, 2008

I live in southern ontario. We have a record rainfall summer over 10 inches of rain since may. great hay crop. wells are full of water. last couple of years have been dry, weatherman says we set a 85 year old record of rainfall.

RayP(MI) · Jul 26, 2008

Same story here - Really did get an inch the other night, dry as ever today, Didn't hardly settle the dust. My hay is a shambles. Scrawny first cutting, don't expect any second cutting at all. Started harvesting oats today - with a grain binder! Suprisingly oats are looking good. Looks like a heavy yield, and some are as tall as my Farmall 200's rear tire. Will take oats to a local steam show for a thrashing demonstration. Fretilized heavily, as I double drilled the oats this year.

Art B · Jul 26, 2008

I live in the U.P. of Mich. We've had close to 9
inches of rain since May. Great hay crop, but many farmers can't get in the fields to get the hay off, too wet. There will be a lot of hay left in the fields.

oldscoutII · Jul 26, 2008

Piedmont area of North Carolina - still needing rain to reach normal levels. For the last week or two we've gotten rain every other day or so which is really helping my blueberries here on the farm.

Ultradog MN · Jul 26, 2008

Twin Cities here.
We've just had a couple of the nicest summer days here. 80 for a daytime high. Rained about 1/4" last night but dried up this morning - low humidity. It's was a cool long spring and a cool summer so far. Only ran the air a few nights to sleep.
Not corn growing weather but enough rain good for working.

Goose · Jul 26, 2008

A week or ten days ago, I posted a rant because it was raining every other day here in eastern Nebraska.

It hasn't rained a drop since.

Pair-a-dice farm · Jul 26, 2008

In north AR we are fairly dry but not as bad as the last 2 years. We had a 100 year flood in March and it quit raining. We got about an inch 3 weeks ago, the first since April and a few sprinkles since so it's not too bad.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 26, 2008

In Northern Ontario it has rained almost every day this summer. I was able to disc one of my fields which is on high ground a few weeks ago but the others are like a swamp. I was planning on growing oats this year but it has been too wet. Now I am thinking of winter wheat if it ever dries up.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 26, 2008

One old boy out my way reported that with all the rain we got this past spring, at one point down by his farm the river got so high you could see under it.

And he surely wouldn't lie.

john in la · Jul 26, 2008

We have been getting our average to maybe a little above average rain here in the deep south. But that is normal for us with afternoon heating and being so close to the coast.

But it sure has seemed hotter this year.
Come on October........ Where are you.

Davidj · Jul 27, 2008

Kinda Soggy here in Eastern Ont. too. Lotsa hay, everything still green. The cash croppers'll make money this year.

keh · Jul 27, 2008

Got 1/4 inch Saturday southern Spartanburg county, SC. Maybe 2 in. accumulation in July, more than in June. They really shouldn't have covered up that good bottomland with the lake at clemson. Those were old Indian corn fields.

KEH

jose bagge · Jul 27, 2008

Norther Va is getting all of your rain, apparently...days are hot as Hades, big thunder boomers roll in at night. High winds, heavy rains giving us both tree/ building damage from wind and hard runoff damage to feilds.

Dew is so heavy in the morning that I wear my muck boots out to the feild- the good news is that the heavy dew is bringing the pastures back nicely

John M · Jul 27, 2008

Only reason anybody is complaining about Hartwell is because the richs folks cant go to Clemson on the boat!!!! I know its dry here, but come on, its been dry for like you say 10 years now. Nothing new either.........Just got to let the green lawners and golf courses complain more until they finally shut up and go back up North.

Mike (WA) · Jul 27, 2008

Pretty much normal here in "rainy" western Washington- no measurable rain in about a month! Seldom rains here between the 4th of July and Labor day. Haying is winding up, and you'd be hard pressed to find any "rained on" hay, period. Unfortunately, we make up for it the other 9 months.

dcarp · Jul 28, 2008

Schulenburg, TX I've had 2 & 8/10's inches of rain since March 1st. Nice Texas summer 100* days seem to last forever. Dolly sent 1 & 3/10's. Can find the cows easy, just look for the dust cloud. Last year was to wet to mow hay early, then dry later. This year just dry and dryer.

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