rain, rain, and more rain...

[woodsmaster]

It's been one of the wettest years ever here in north west ohio and almost impossible to get to the woods without four wheel drive and mud tires. Even then your going to make some major ruts. If you do make it to the woods the mosquitoes will carry you away. Needless to say I'm way behind on my wood cutting Lots of farmers didn't even get there fields planted and many who did have a very poor stand due to flooding.

 

[Scooter422]

I feel your pain! Not very dry here in Indiana either. More like 2 season anymore...spring and winter!

 

[Applesister]

Some of the farm fields here are under water. Good year for hay if you are on high ground, some people were baling hay the second week of June. But you have to work fast between the rains.
I go out when its pouring and check on my tin roofing, it has random run off issues. The leaky roofing syndrome. I will definitely have wood this winter that will sizzle and spit. Between the humidity and the rain.

 

[Fred Wright]

It has been overly rainy in this neck of the woods as well. I miss cutting in the woodlot but I don't miss the mud and pigged up ground.

There were days when I spent as much time pulling the little tractor out of mud with a comealong as I spent actually getting rounds loaded out. We don't do that no more.

 

[Woody Stover]

It's sunny, breezy and into the 90s here today for a change, which is nice because at least the humidity is below 60%.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Very rainy here in Eastern PA. the last 6 weeks, allergies and sick people all around thanks to the moldy weather!

 

[Pellet_Pete]

Drought first, then lots of rain but with lots of sun = excellent lowbush blueberry crop

Sounds like it'll be one of those years that convinces people to top-cover their stacks. My neighbor's got 4 cords stacked in a giant cube right up against his house with no top cover...I foresee winter days with sour-smelling smoke and a gummy chimney cap!

 

[heatwise]

The rain came with strong winds and blew the tarps off of the stacks today. Another round again tomorrow.

 

[mwhitnee]

Well all I can say is I'm praying for some good wood this year as well. Friend has a lot he's clearing and hoping he has some dead trees ready to burn...

 

[Seanm]

In South Eastern BC we have had a very dry mild year (all of BC for that matter). I had to stop ice fishing in February when normally Im doing it into april. I normally cant access the back roads at lower elevations until mid april and may at mid elevations but this year was different. This gave me a head start on processing. Out west we c,s,s on a one year time table with opportunities to harvest standing dead larch, fir, lodgepole and ponderosa pine that will be ready this season. The west is burning but this week we seem to have a reprieve. Good thing as I have my eye on a standing dead fir tree that I want to drop once its appropriate to start cutting in the bush again. Smoke has been heavy in the air and evacuations are something weve been seeing regularly on the local news. I feel bad for all affected by forest fires north and south of the border. If anyone has any wet weather they want to wish our way we will take it!!

 

[Oldman47]

You are welcome to our spring this year. I was starting to feel like I was living in Oregon, except that it still gets killer hot between storms.

 

[TreePointer]

Just to throw out some numbers, our average June has 3.85" of rain as measured at our county airport. This June totaled over 8".

 

[CountryBoy19]

Same here... these last couple days are the first we've even experienced "July like" temps, but of course we had some nasty storms come with it. I-65 in Southern IN is flooded over and I heard up to 40,000 people in Indy are without power due to storms last night... Thankfully the nasty storms missed us but they were close enough that the lightning put on quite a show; it was eery walking outside in the dark (went to get some things from the shed) with all the lightning going on...

Glad I got my wood all cut this spring before it got too bad and I'm glad I decided to top cover my stacks for this coming winter...

Oh, and regarding the farming aspect, my dad planted his last field of beans on July 10th, the latest he's EVER planted beans in his life. In that last push he had gone non-stop, round-the-clock, for 72 hours to finish things up between rain storms and 2 hours after he finished the last field and parked the equipment another rain storm cut loose...

 

[Seanm]

I live about 12 hours drive east of Vancouver in the Rockies. Weve faired much better than them but we had a low snow pack and hot weather. Check this out, Vancouvers average rain fall for June is 59 mm whereas this June they only had 11mm. I know May wasnt much better. I wasnt able to find averages for my area but not current amounts.

 

[Hills Hoard]

Been raining for a week in Melbourne OZ!

 

[red oak]

Good year for hay if you are on high ground, some people were baling hay the second week of June. But you have to work fast between the rains.

Field next to me is not on high ground, farmers make hay, baled it, and then it's gotten rained on 5 or 6 times because the field is too wet to get the tractor in any more. I don't know if it's still any good or not. Wood that I'm going to use the next two years is top-covered, I'm not sure if it's dried at all this summer or not.

 

[D8Chumley]

I'm thankful my piles are top covered also, we got almost 3" rain here again just today. Ive had about enough of it, makes earning a living tough when I can't work in the rain. On the positive side, I finished splitting all the rounds in my staging area today

 

[FishKiller]

stopped ice fishing in Feb in BC? whaaaat? 2015? lol. i'm in southern jersey and i was breaking salt ice with the boat in mid march to try and catch some fish, dodging icebergs 18" thick and the size of a house. the great part about the pine barrens is that they are basically a desert. storms come from PA and just dry up before they get to me. we have gotten our fair share here in the last 2 weeks. but its quick, and dries out fast.

 

[warno]

We have been getting 2-4" at a time here in central IL. All water ways are up and fields are pretty bad now from water damage. It seems like we either have rain or horrible humidity lately.

 

[therdlesstravld]

We had such an out of the norm winter in southern jersey fish killer, the entire bay near Atlantic city frozeover and my buddy was cutting himself out to the channel in his little boston whaler to go clamming. It was so cold the clams were laying up on the bank and he was coming home with like 800$ in clams for 3 hours work, and was the only one dumb enough to be out there.

Yesterday we watched my trash cans and construction debris float down the block in the river of water running down the street. A crazy year for weather thats for sure.