For All You Drowning

[ZNT]

For all you up North and East, Give Us Our Rain Back!  (lol)


Wise County Messenger
IT’S A RECORD – Last month was the driest March on record with just 0.09 of an inch of rainfall recorded in Decatur, according to weather reporter Doyle Green. The previous driest March had been 0.79 in 1980. Records date back to 1974. For the year, Decatur has received 2.65 inches of rainfall, more than 5 inches below normal for the first three months of the year. Temperatures ranged from a low of 23 degrees on Feb. 6 to a high of 86 on Feb. 18.

 

[justintime]

I think Mother Nature is getting old and confused! Here in our country, our annual precipitation is 12 inches including snow. This usually is a fairly dry country, but I would suspect we are getting close to 3 xs our normal moisture in the past year. I heard a weather guru predicing a hot dry summer for 2011. Probably is the same guy that predicted this for 2010!!  It was starting to look like he was right so I started getting some extra pasture ... just in case. I ended up with 2 pastures I never even put cows in. I am beginning to think that people who work in the weather office have the perfect jobs. I can't think of any other occupation where you can be wrong all the time, and still take home a pay check! 
ZNT, I hope you get some moisture soon. I have lots of experience with drought and it ain't no fun!

 

[Cattledog]

We finally got .4 inch last night!  Our March was just about as dry as yours.  I'd love for it to rain to get our pastures going.  We're starting to run short on hay.

 

[HAB]

We missed the rain/snow this weekend.  Thank God !!  We currently have water going over roadways and have sections of flooded fields.  The snow is still 5 ft deep in all the shelterbelts.  Most of the ditches are still full of snow, so the water is going where it wants too.  Our cows are up on 4 islands (straw mounds) surrounded by a foot of flowing water.

 

[HF CHARS]

Would love to send you some rain from South Dakota.  Really WET HERE!  Draggin calves through the mud has become routine, and its getting old.  Maybe if it dry there we could send you a couple hundred head of cows to calve out, got plenty of feed to send with em