Drought Check Conditions In Your Neck Of The Woods

According to the local weather talking head we are in a drought and about 6 inches of precip below normal for this time of year......... although it's raining at the moment....
BUT the national forecaster out of Albany (NY) has issued a "flash flood warning" and is saying we are to get 1-3 inches of rain today; with pockets getting upwards of 3-6 inches....
Soooo if'n we get 4-5 inches of rain today there goes our "below precip" and most likely our newly seeded lawn, driveway, and who knows what else will end up at the bottom of our hill??????

update, we have had over 6 " of rain this past week so we went from drought to full pond and standing water, however, some areas are still really dry where it is high and it ran off, and there is still hay instead of lawn in some areas..but some tiny green sprouts

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Brenda Groth
http://restfultrailsfoodforestgarden.blogspot.com/

Just now, my husband googled how much rain we got in our area and this thread came up! lol He's never been here before, and he thought it was funny that he found my posts. haha!

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Kara - living on 5 acres with 2 dogs, 3 cats, 22 chickens, 4 ducks, a 13 year old son, a husband, and a partridge in a pear tree!
http://talesofatransplantedcitygirl.wordpress.com/

Here at the farm we have had <0.2" of rain since May 1. It splits and goes right around us. People a mile either side of us finally got an inch or more but we have nothing.

I got 14 pints of beans off my garden. Then they just burnt up despite watering. The corn never pollinated. If times get hard we do have tomatoes!

I just don't think this is the last of it. I expect it to be bad for a few years more. I think it is a cycle.

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http://www.madewithlovebymary.blogspot.com/

Crunchy and brown here in SE Oklahoma with the Governor declaring a statewide burn ban this past week. It's not looking like we'll break this pattern anytime soon but it could be a lot worse. We were blessed with normal spring rainfall so we have water in our ponds. Praise the Lord for that!

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Francismilker

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much" James 5:16

everything is crunchy brown here also. keep having power outages, but don't know why. Realtor showed the house last week and the potential buyer wanted to check the well. THEY DRAINED IT!!!!!!! I asked the realtor how she could be so stupid as to let them do that!?!?! We didn't have water for two days!!!

OT..Micheal,I live in Ancramdale,Ny...about 45 minutes away from the capital.
small world isn't it? and yes we are in for flash flood warnings also.

Very bad drought here. We don't have any grass, just dry crunchy remnants. A watering ban is in effect. We did get rain last night, though it's too late for many plants.