Pouring Rain Again

rusty6 · Jul 18, 2013

That chance of thunderstorms turned out to be 100% for today as it is pouring rain right now..I was up to 13 inches for the past three weeks before today's. Have to check the guage when it lets up a bit for today. I shot some video of the July 15 storm while I was stranded in the big metal shed. Nearly deafening the way the rain beat down on that roof. Lucky though. A couple of miles south they got bad hail damage to the crops and a bin blown over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGaygglP_g

tomturkey · Jul 18, 2013

Central Iowa went from a very wet spring with delays for all corn and beans, to a very dry late June and July. We could sure use a little drink right now. Send a little our way. gobble.

rrlund · Jul 18, 2013

We're at that point in mid Michigan too. There've been a few pop ups that have rained themselves out,but not where I am.

JD Farmer · Jul 18, 2013

I mowed hay this morning, hoping to cheat and win...bale tomorrow if I don't get hit first...still got too much first cutting to get off the fields.
Baled a small field of second cutting yesterday to help keep the coon out of my sweet corn patch.

Gene Dotson · Jul 18, 2013

Wow, Ralph, you are sure gettung a lot of water. Here in Ohio it has been very hot and humid. Mowed some hay 8 days ago and still not quite dry enough to bale. Temps have been over 90 degrees all week and when I came in the house a half hour ago my thermometer in the house registered 100.1 degrees. Baled some straw this morning, but dropped it on the ground. Will pick it up later when it cools down and I get some help. Not critical on moisture yet, but a shower this weekend will be welcome.

Gene

rusty6 · Jul 18, 2013

(quoted from post at 13:38:26 07/18/13) Wow, Ralph, you are sure gettung a lot of water. Here in Ohio it has been very hot and humid. Mowed some hay 8 days ago and still not quite dry enough to bale.
Gene

Gene, I got really lucky managing to bale what hay I had cut between rainy spells. Some I cut on a Monday and baled it by Thursday, mostly dry and looking good. There are a few fields of hay swaths around here that have laid out through some of the storms and guess they are pretty weathered by now. I've got a little more hay I can cut but glad it is still standing today.

Fergienewbee · Jul 18, 2013

We need some too. Late-planted corn looks really stressed. My plot is just starting to tassel. Some looks okay; some may not make it.

Larry

old · Jul 18, 2013

Here in this part of Missouri we are start into a drought again. Got a 6 inch rain today as in 6 inches between drops for maybe 3 minutes

1206SWMO · Jul 18, 2013

Send it south to Missouri...I havent had any rain since June
17th....97 degrees today with a 10 mph wind and the corn is
looking bad..

Gene Dotson · Jul 18, 2013

Ralph, I cut my small patch of alfalfa last Sunday and baled it on Tuesday. Got the same number of bales as first cutting, 33. Wish the heavy grass on the new seeding would have dried so fast. Checked it this evening and it will bale tomorrow as soon as I get some help.

Gene

Bobfish1 · Jul 19, 2013

East Central Nebraska dry with every pivot and flood irrigation going. Temp yesterday 97 with 15 mile an hour wind. Might get a sprinkle this morning but that is all we have had for quite a while.

rusty6 · Jul 19, 2013

Its really something how some areas are so dry and can't get rain while others are too wet and can't miss one. It just started up here again at noon. Grass hadn't even dried from yesterday's 8 tenths and now it is pouring down and wind raging again. I'd guess there is some hail in that somewhere too.

fixerupper · Jul 19, 2013

I'm about to start calling my area 'The great Northwest Iowa Desert' again. Jim

mj · Jul 19, 2013

(quoted from post at 13:45:47 07/18/13) That chance of thunderstorms turned out to be 100% for today as it is pouring rain right now..I was up to 13 inches for the past three weeks before today's. Have to check the guage when it lets up a bit for today. I shot some video of the July 15 storm while I was stranded in the big metal shed. Nearly deafening the way the rain beat down on that roof. Lucky though. A couple of miles south they got bad hail damage to the crops and a bin blown over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGaygglP_g

I watched your video and, except for the scenery in the background, it could have been a storm here - [i:bc39b6734a]'blowin' like snow in the winter'[/i:bc39b6734a]

rusty6 · Jul 20, 2013

(quoted from post at 20:18:16 07/19/13)

I watched your video and, except for the scenery in the background, it could have been a storm here - [i:a81abb91d3]'blowin' like snow in the winter'[/i:a81abb91d3]

that is exactly what I thought. Of course it takes quite a bit of wind to blow a 2000 bushel grain bin over on it's side too.

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