Looks pretty bad. 
It was really dry in through the late spring, but since the first of July it has been a rain forest here. We have gotten rain it seems like everyday. Made it a little hard to work. Wet all the time. Got stuck on one job. Muddy. Etc. It is a blessing to have rain. We are not in a drought are on that map in SE Tn
I think I can smell popcorn.
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It is. In some fields I drive by corn never made it more than 3 ft high before dying, then there is my wife's uncle who got lucky and was deluged with about 3 inches of rain some time ago, while most other nearby fields got less than an inch; he figures that soaked the ground enough that it spared his crop. Lots of fields out here turned to silage, perhaps the beans won't be baked....
We had a drought the last 2+ years, but not this year. I am currently running 44.51" for the year, which is about 10+ inches above average. Only had 7 days w/o rain in the month of July. And am currently running 5.78" for the month of Aug.
I am glad the rain is back, but this has brought the skeetos out in force. I do live in South La after all.
And I am CoCoRaHS volunteer.
at least that is a pretty GIS map
at this scale, i'm sure it is accurate. don't zoom in too far!
We in East Texas are a helluva lot better than we were last year this time. I don't think we had 20" of rain all last year. One evening about two months ago, we got a quarter of that in two hours.
We are still dry, but the hay is still making in the piney woods. Outside the piney woods where the humidities drop a little, it's much much worse. We could still use a rain shower once a week though.
Wow. I feel sorry for all of you in the middle of the country. We're on the edge of the drought area here, but have had some relief lately.
We, too, have had some relief lately, here in Colorado Springs. There was the big fire up by Divide, then the massive Waldo Canyon fire that evacuated my Dad+Stepmom, and almost evacuated me and my Mom (all of us are within 3 miles of each other). And creeks through town were lower than I've ever seen them. But we've been getting a few afternoon thunderstorms lately every few days, and that's improved things. Still very dry, but not as bad as it was when the Waldo Canyon fire was threatening to burn down the whole city.
"Boy Wonder", Seth, is slamming hubs on his first sub-division today (can you imagine?)..
He had to come back in at lunch for more flats. Seems as though the ground was so dry, silty and cracked that hubs wouldn't tighten up. Dry ground isn't that odd, but this is in a low area that's mostly in the flood plain. Go figger.
Glad to hear it's been a little better in Colorado Springs. My brother and his family live in that area and from what he tells me it's been pretty bad. I know the fires were bad.
Did a subdivision in Cache a few years ago. Was there in July and August. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, good times!
