Rain

[wolfman]

OT. I think there was a day one time without rain here in s.w. Pa. Tough to make hay when you can't get one day in a row without a cloudburst. Really going to make good hay valuable. Thankful that we're not burning. Fields too wet for a tractor!

 

[RobMD]

we actually need a little bit of rain. Darned mid-atlantic region has incredibly variable weather. oh well.

 

[Hoss In ME]

We be getting rain every day up here for last 2 weeks.Makes it hard to hay. Hoss

 

[Anonymous-0]

Thankfully I only garden Can't get 2 days in a row without a cloudburst here...lots of hay looking really past peak.

Whole last week we only had day w/o precipitation, but it's been less then a 1/3" total. Just a 10 minute heavy burst each afternoon it seems...enough to muck up haying if you were baling. 3" in the week before!

 

[Weldon K]

Send rain to North Carolina !!!!! Severe to extreme drought rating over much of the state. South Carolina also. Last decent rain was May 8th. Only very light sprinkles since then . Crops suffering badly or never sprouted. Some land never even planted. Pastures gone , most are feeding hay. Big increase in cattle numbers at livestock market last week. After disastrous drought last year, another one could force me out or to downsize my dairy operation and my wife to seek off farm employment.I've never seen it so dry in May and June in my lifetime.
Drought map

 

[GeneMO]

30" so far, normal I heard is 19" for this time of year.

We may have double crop soybeans, after wheat that out yield the early crop. We mudded in the early beans and got about a 80-90% stand. We left them, I guess we will see what happens.

Gene

 

[DH in Carolina]

Weldon Where are you in NC? I am at Lowgap 14 miles from Mount Airy at the bottom of the Blue Ridge. It is dry here also. DH

 

[Kentb of SWMO]

We got 4.5 to 5.5 inches hear in Pleasant Hope ( 20 miles north of Springfield, MO ) Saturday. South of the Buffalo, county seat of the county to the east gat about .25 inches. I think compaired to the year to date we are 100% ahead of average.

Kent

 

[Jeff-oh]

SW ohio is turing out nicer. We got a good 5 day run of drying weather. It is intermixed with 20-30 min. downpours.

 

[Weldon K]

DH, I am 4 miles west of King in Stokes County.