Rain!

MOgal · #1 07/14/12, 04:46 PM

After the fires in my neighborhood two weeks ago, we got .21" rain. Last weekend we got close to a half inch on Saturday and another on Sunday. Yesterday while I was in town, I watched a huge dark cloud come in then the sky just opened up. It was glorious! We got .91" here at the house and there was a lot of run-off in the ditches along our gravel road.

As much moaning has gone on about the drought and heat in Missouri and other places, I'm surprised that no one has commented on this. Did any one else get it?

Old Vet · #2 07/14/12, 05:26 PM

Yes I got 1/4 inch today on top of the 3/4 inches that came last Sunday. It did not break the drought but it helped some.

rags57078 · #3 07/14/12, 05:37 PM

we recieved .56 in June and non yet this month

SteveO · #4 07/14/12, 05:42 PM

3 inches in the last 4days this is the first rain in4 weeks at least
west tn
steve

MO_cows · #5 07/14/12, 06:02 PM

Not a drop here. There have been some popup thunderstorms in the general area but they missed us. The yard crackles when you walk on it. We are already feeding hay. I thought I felt for the Texans in drought last year, but now have a much better understanding.

Kel T · #6 07/14/12, 06:18 PM

We got squat.

Alice In TX/MO · #7 07/14/12, 06:20 PM

I am east of Alton. We got just under four inches. My friends on the west of town got NOTHING.

salmonslayer · #8 07/14/12, 07:16 PM

It rained this morning for a couple hours, a slow steady rain that soaked in instead of ran off and we got almost 1.5 inches. Its is absolutely amazing to see how things have perked up.

collegeboundgal · #9 07/14/12, 07:33 PM

we've seen T-storms both north of us and south of us. not a drop here.

yard died 7-8 weeks ago. we've been feeding hay almost 2 weeks now. sigh, unless we got rain every other day for 2 weeks, it wouldn't help. the grass is already dorment.

big rockpile · #10 07/14/12, 07:39 PM

We had a little bit yesterday.Brown and Dry,rivers are dryer than I've every seen them.I can't put my Big Boat in below the House,have to go to Main lake.

big rockpile

SFM in KY · #11 07/14/12, 07:45 PM

Southern KY ... we got a couple of brief showers early in the week, then a real soaker, all night and into Thursday morning, almost 2" of rain, which really did help. Since then, a couple of hours of fairly steady rain in the afternoon/evening ... and we're supposed to have 50% chance of thundershowers every day for the next week or so. Some miss us, some go over us ... but it does seem to be breaking.

ozark_jewels · #12 07/14/12, 09:34 PM

Keep seeing the storms roll over, got a few sprinkles here. We had a shower last week that settled the dust. Towns near here got 1-3 inches before and after it rolled over us and left us dry. Pop up storms tend to do that.
This bit of rain has certainly been more than we have had and I thank God for it and the cooler temps! Still praying for enough to get things growing again.
Been feeding hay since late May. And there is no more hay to harvest......

Big Dave · #13 07/14/12, 09:51 PM

WOW I got 1 inch in 20 minutes two days ago. Nothing since april. Today we recived another inch. I like it but if I could would share.

southernmom86 · #14 07/15/12, 09:41 AM

We've had 12 in. since last sunday and there is a dark cloud coming in now. Sure wish I could share with you guys.

gone-a-milkin · #15 07/15/12, 09:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by salmonslayer

It rained this morning for a couple hours, a slow steady rain that soaked in instead of ran off and we got almost 1.5 inches. Its is absolutely amazing to see how things have perked up.

We got only 5/8ths of an inch from that storm, but every bit helps.

PrincessFerf · #16 07/15/12, 02:05 PM

We had rain come through the area, but all we got here was about 5 minutes of a moderate rain - not enough to even measure.

I'm so glad to see others are getting rain, even if we aren't. Hopefully some will find its way to our place.

The kids and I have been trying every sort of rain dance we can think of.

farmmom · #17 07/15/12, 02:22 PM

We're getting heavy rain storms almost every day! This has been the wettest summer I can remember in a long time. Of course, the last several years we've been in drought.

RJMAcres · #18 07/15/12, 03:42 PM

Not a drop here.
About 3/4" total since mid march.
Had to start feeding hay the first part of may.

Joe.G · #19 07/15/12, 08:32 PM

Last few summers, we had rain all the time, floods and what not, This spring we had some flooding but since being of June we haven't gotten any rain, It rained today for about a half hour Light steady rain, knocked the dust down that is it. Looking at close to 100 Deg on Tue, No rain in the forecast.

sugarspinner · #20 07/15/12, 08:34 PM

None of it makes the trip to us. The weather people say that moisture coming from the west, hits the "wall of dry air" and dissipates." Hmmmm. I'm wondering how we can ever get rid of that wall of dry air, then. We've also been remembering that the Sahara was once fertile and green and now it's a desert. Maybe we're headed there. Only .4 inches of rain in 45 days. Everything's dry and crunchy.