The rain is finally here. Here, so far anyhow, it isn't enough, but at the very least it ushered out the heat.
It's bobbed around 100 the last three or four days. Add that to the .54 inches of rain we got in July... and things are getting rough. The three towns north of here share a water system, and it sounds like things are getting severe -- absolutely no lawn watering, no car washing, full dishes and laundry loads only, limiting showers... Most towns around here are still at limiting lawn watering to twice a week during off-peak hours.
A few people have mentioned that what the farmers really want right now is heavy hail. Crops are insured in case of hail, so they'd at least get some cash. Particular fields of corn are fading browner by the day. The beans don't look awful yet. I'm told they can hold out longer and still do okay if rain comes eventually.
We're actually in a Flash Flood Watch tonight. It just might rain hard enough that the parched, packed ground won't soak it in fast enough. That possibility looks slim to me -- we haven't even made it up to a decent downpour yet. This morning the National Weather Service was saying some locations could get 4 to 6 inches! I think we'd be thrilled with anything that'll form puddles.
No matter how it adds up, it's brought in cool air. It feels incredible and fresh like nothing has in weeks. Tomorrow it's not even supposed to get to 80! :)
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My parents already know they won't have a harvest because they hadn't had rain for 8 weeks until recently. They are hoping that the recent rains will be enought to rinse some of the herbicides out of the crops so they can rent the fields out as pasture land. There aren't even any ears on the corn. :( Fortunately, they are both working pretty much full-time and only have 1 kid at home now, but it is still a devastating thing to watch your crops burn up in the field. Ahh, enough doom and gloom...
Malinda
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