Crazy Weather

Bird · Jul 28, 2004

We had an unusually wet Spring, but then it finally turned hot and dry lately, as expected. And now we're supposedly in the middle of our hot, dry season, but instead we're now in the middle of a slow moving frog stranglin' gulley washer. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif The rain gutter on my little 10' x 24' patio cover is not stopped up; water's coming out in a full sized flow and yet it's also running over the top edge. Sure glad my grandson did the mowing this morning. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JerryG · Jul 28, 2004

Bird,
It's the strangest summer that I have ever experienced. By the time the kids are out of school, it is usually bone dry. This year, rain after rain and cool temperatures. Normally this time of year, we are dried up and the ground is hard as a rock. I have been having a hard time, just getting in the garden to plow.

PineRidge · Jul 28, 2004

Bird it has indeed been a strange spring. My food plot got a late start on account of all the rains that we had here in Ohio and now the ground is bone dry. Even my pond is down by about 8 inches as I write this post. But hey, at least it's NOT snowing......yet! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

They say that if you don't like the weather here in Ohio to wait 5 minutes as it will change. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Inspector507 · Jul 28, 2004

So true Mike,
Yesterday was only 69° for a "high". The record was 65° in 1945. Been a weird summer, thats for sure.

riptides · Jul 28, 2004

My next door neighbor has a mushroom farm in his front yard.

When these storms come through, like everyday, 3/4 to 2 1/2 inches of rain are usually left behind.

I have drained my pool 3 times already this year. That is 6 inches of water I am dumping elsewhere.

Unreal.
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon · Jul 28, 2004

Sun flares make for different weather.

Egon

Zoomie · Jul 29, 2004

Bird,

I'm a bit north of you, and when I awoke this morning at 8:15 it was already raining, though very light. I left for work about 2:30 and didn't see a drop all the way to Dallas... but shortly after... the bottom fell out down here.

Birdhunter1 · Jul 29, 2004

In Southern illinois we've been having high temps in the 60's-70's. Many old folks I have talked to said they have never seen it like this. I was in the Ozarks fishing last week and thetemp at 2 p.m. was 61 degrees. I don't know what's up but the weather man wasn't kidding when he said a cold front is coming through. A week and half ago we were seeing heat indexes of 110-120 ranges, now we are almost seeing wind chills.

Bird · Jul 29, 2004

Zoomie, we didn't get any rain yesterday until nearly 5 p.m., and the really heavy stuff didn't hit until nearly an hour later, but it's still raining this morning. Six days ago, when we mowed the yards, they were beginning to show signs of drought and I ran two sprinklers for over 8 hours without it really making a noticeable difference. In fact, it's been so dry, the yards didn't really need mowing yesterday, but my grandson did it anyway, since he and our daughter are leaving this morning for 10 days to see New York City for the first time, and then spend a week as counselors at an Easter Seal camp in New Jersey. And now the yard looks like a swamp. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I'm not complaining, though, because we needed a good rain; just would have preferred not quite so much so fast.

wroughtn_harv · Jul 29, 2004

Morning Bird,

We just got mist and light rain last night. This morning at five thirty I poured out three inches from the rain gauge. But the news is talking about twelve inches last night south of Dallas.

Our clay will dry up on the surface and start cracking after about two weeks without measurable rain. Last weekend I dug a trench for a friend and even though the surface was cracking it was wet gumbo a foot down.

I've been wanting a rain day all month. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif