That is what I am worried about. ThanksHowever- if it hits drought areas that hard the flooding there will (ironically) be serious, as very dry earth absorbs water more slowly. Good luck to you
That sounds good Dennis. Maybe it will turn out that way for us too. It is just that we are so flat here, it doesn't get away very fast when it comes down like that.It might not be too bad. We were above normal rain in July then got over 6" in early August. No problem at all. An area near us got 11" and it got soaked up pretty good. No flooding to speak of except in the areas that always are prone to flooding. Good luck!
Same here. I'm in the heaviest rain area in west central IN....Our ground might as well be concrete.
Back in June 2006 (I think) we had 11 inches of rain fall in one night (on already saturated earth) and experienced some major flooding. I don't know if 8 inches on drought-stricken earth is better or worse. Either way, if this forecast holds up it is going to be an interesting weekend.
What I'm afraid will happen is that the very few crops that did manage to produce something worth harvesting (instead of just plowing under) will get flooded out. Talk about insult to injury.
Yep. Like I said when I posted this thing......"Man I hope they are wrong!"....and they were thank goodness. We got about 3 inches over 3 days, which is just what we needed.Talk about a non-event. It misted heavily for 3 days with a couple brief downpours. We ended up with about 1" of rain Friday - Monday. The forecasters were only off by 88%...
We're still firmly in the D4 exceptional drought category.
That's tough BG. We were close to that until this event. And we are not out of the woods yet. There are lots of parts of the Nation that are still in extreme drought conditions for sure. Hope you get some rain soon.Amazingly in contrast, we are working on a record dry period. So far we are at day 44 without rain. 51 is the record and there is no rain forecast for the next few days.
US drought - http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Amazingly in contrast, we are working on a record dry period. So far we are at day 44 without rain. 51 is the record and there is no rain forecast for the next few days.
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