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Whoa just when you think it's gotta quit. We are getting another dump this morning with a bit of hail mixed in earlier when it hit. Great lightening show and we are at almost 1" in the past 1 1/2 hours.

That makes for about 9" so far in July. And that was after about that much in June. Even the guys making haylage are having to fight to get it off with heavy showers about every two days.

So while we're not close to the floods in the west, we are at the saturation point now with water standing even in tiled fields. And last year we couldn;t get it to rain even with the ranchers neked barn run . . .

:lol:

Ended up with 1 1/2 inches from 5 AM til 7 AM. :shock:

Water, water everywhere.
 
We've had about the same weather lately. I was baleing last night and the water was making waves off the tractor tires and that's on the high ground. I'd be scared to go in the meadows.
 
We have a big storm coming in here today. They are calling
for heavy rain, hail and perhaps funnel clouds. Golly, the
grain crops are so good; I hope they don't get damage from
this storm.

We received about 3/4" over the weekend, but south of
us a customer called and said he thought they had gotten 2".
 
we got .75 over night, but 20 miles south they took between 5 and 7 over night!! glad it is them!
 
Ya'll need to ship a little moisture west please. All we are getting is a tease escorted by copious amounts of lightning. Started a couple of fires last night but nothing has blown up .......yet. Seems like every year we get a great spring for rain and grass, it makes up for it by lightning being the spark to burn it all up come late July/August.
 
We have lots of sweet clover this year, 'H. When that dries up and
the leaves fall off, it's a real fire hazard. So, don't think you are alone.
I hope we all get through the year without a fire.


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:wink:
 
Well we're getting another dump overnight again. It's been raining fairly hard for over 2 hours again. I won't know what's in the gauge until morning but the yardlight shows a pond out in the back yard where I was mowing grass yeaterday afternoon.

Last evening my son and I went for a drive and saw some pretty bad ruts in the few wheat fields that some guys have harvested. There aren't enough sunny days to dry the wheat between rains so it is being taken off at high moistures and dried in the bin. It will likely all be sprouted from now on. And fusarium . . . :roll:



Update - We had 2 1/4 by7:30 AM and still raining lightly. Gotta move the chicken coop, water in that part of the yard is right up to the door!
 
Fusarium is a fungus/mold that develops in the wheat head in wet conditions at the right times, mainly flowering. It renders the wheat unusable for human consumption at just a few ppm.

We are at about 12" in July on top of the 10" in June after almost no rain last fall and very little snow last winter.

Water everywhere. I saw a field with sheep in it this morning where they had to swim across a slightly lower area in the middle of the field to get to the rest of the flock on the other side. The creeks and rivers are over their banks this morning.

The cows are punching the pasture field all to mud. :(

With all the heat we are getting it's a jungle out there! :?
 
We need pictures, burnt!!

We are having a downpour here right now!!! Coming down
in sheets!!!!!!!

I just checked the weather forcast:

NOW...

PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL IMPACT THE AREA THROUGH 11 AM THIS MORNING. POOR VISIBILITIES AND LOCAL AREAS OF PONDING WATER ON ROADS WILL CAUSE DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS IN SPOTS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.
 

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