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| Ok, as usual another storm rolls by and slides southeast. I'm glad I got 0.3" but just south of me got 0.8". Its happened all year (or it goes northeast).
In fact the last time my area got 0.5" or more of rain in 24 hours was LAST YEAR FALL. I've yet to reach 0.5" this spring and summer. Curious if there are any other areas like this. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 19, 12 at 17:34
| yep.. me ... the storms either go north of me.. across the I94 corridor ... or south of me.. across toledo ... rained for 3 hours today ... ONE QUARTER INCH ... that isnt even enough to wet the mulch on top ... at least it was coolish .... relatively speaking ... and no blinding sun to suck it right back into the air ... 85% of rain in the next three hours.. cant wait for the other 1/4 inch.. lol ... to sum it up ... mother nature is a bee-otch .. i hate her.. ken |
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| Got about 0.2" here. Not enough. I'm hoping for a tropical storm with weak winds but lots of rain to hit the Gulf, that moves fast enough to not cause damage like Debby did, then rains itself out right over Ohio...haha. |
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| Sounds like these isoloated storms are extremely spotty throughout the midwest then. Its so strange to me to say that it hasn't rained a 1/2" yet this spring or summer. Ken, I went and pulled back the 2" of mulch that I haven't watered near a plant and the soil was dry. So the foilage and mulch got watered. To your point at least the blinding sun isn't out today. I actually miss cloudy days now. |
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| Where I live, Oakland County, Michigan, we seem to be in some kind of a "rain shadow" -- storms always track north across Genesee and Lapeer counties, or south across Wayne and Washtenaw. I think it has to do with elevation of the land and orthographic lift of the airmasses due to the elevation, since my area is 400 to 600 feet higher in elevation than the broad ancient lakebed plains all around us. Today was very typical -- areas around us by about 30-40 miles got an inch or more, at the local airport here, 0.14". |
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| I hate when my wife says "well it's better than nothing" when we get a 2 minute shower. Actually, it's not...I have actually shown her that it's dry half an inch down to prove my point. |
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| I hate when my wife says "well it's better than nothing" when we get a 2 minute shower. Yeah its not good when you get the foliage wet and the soil remains dry. Perfect condition for powdery mildew. I'm game for a tropical storm right now. |
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- Posted by girdledinvasive 9a LA (My Page) on Thu, Jul 19, 12 at 23:53
| Been very lucky here, over 1/2' just last week. Wish I could send you guys a couple inches. Please no tropical storms! |
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| Parents back in Jersey are just now getting their first 1/2"+ storm in about a month. Which is not crazy long but still... I expect to see green when I make my pilgrimages out of the desert ;) |
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| I find it quite interesting to watch the radar and see these storms move around the city. When we lived in Indianapolis a general front would come through and flank the city to the north and south leaving a circle with no rain over the city. With these big general storms it would then back fill. (The circle would be centered on downtown not the radar) We are now living east of Raleigh. Again the city is influencing our weather. Sometime the storms come in from the west hit the city and dissipate. Other times as a front comes through, when it hits the city rain forms over the city and does not hit the surrounding area. Lines of storms have also come through the northern and southern parts continue east, but when the center hits the city, it dissipated over the city and reformed to the east of us. I wonder if any one has tried to put the effect of the city heat engines into their weather forecast. It is frustrating |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Jul 20, 12 at 12:13
| ^ More chaos for an already chaotic process. I don't so much care what happens or is happening here in town. But just 57 miles north of here lies my tree farm. That I care about. As it turns out, that is the very dividing line between the big midwestern dry blob and the more normal conditions to the north. Overall, that area has done alright. I rent some of my land to a farmer. He planted corn this year and already three weeks ago, that stuff was about seven feet tall, fully tasseled out, and looking great. Just the two counties to the south, down here, not so much. And we're hardly in the worst-hit area. There are a ton of paper birch in my woods and in that area generally. These aren't the stressed out, borer-infested birch you see in some areas, but healthy vigorous plants. As an indicator species of a cool, moist environment, I hope they stay good. +oM |
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| This thread is nothing like what I thought it would be about when I read that title :-) |
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