Going to be a nice day to take off its to hot to work outside. We had a rainy season for a short time but the heat and drought just kicked right back in. Looks like the rain won’t even fill the big ponds. The Creeks and lakes filled from rapid run off from drought soil unable to absorb water. The actual aquifer below needs to fill and that takes time. It should be raining out there today since it’s July 3rd.
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Ironically it rained a little later.
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Send that rain my way please……
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We got 2.1" of rain here today about noon in under an hour. The unforcasted storm formed right over us and I was out in it except the last ten minutes 
. I got very chilled.
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Praying you both receive rain. @KS_razerback this time I will pray you are at home in bed already.
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Still over-saturated here though we have had nearly a week of relatively dry weather. We had a thunderstorm today that dropped about 1/2 inch.
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Our problem is the opposite we went years without enough rain. The top may be wet but we are dry underneath. It will require a miracle to fix the issue. The aquifer is low on water and that requires constant rain and patience to fix.
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It has been 15 years since this area hit 100 degrees, we’re in a sort of sweet spot being higher elevation than surrounding towns which see triple digit temperatures much more often.
This is the third day of this kind of heat.
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We’re with a full water table right now here which is nice, but it also means water doesn’t soak away and get super muddy real easy and stays that way even with over a week of dry weather. As I’m typing this it is raining outside.
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Just this week we harvested wheat and put up hay. It is raining here but that ground is so far from saturated I drove up to the pond yesterday. That ground should have dropped me to the door handles in mud but it was completely dry. I was in a normal car.
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heres hoping the drought is at least going to be moved from severe to moderate this week. We are currently at 3 years in a row of summer drought. Perhaps this is the new norm
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Years of Droughts take years of rain to undo. We are very far from that. If it rained 2” a day everyday for a year we would still not replenish what was lost.
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We are lucky enough where I am that we have very good ground water that repenishes fast and has a high capacity.
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In the mid or late 1990s I saw an episode of some television show that was talking about how the water wells used by the large agricultural farms throughout the middle of the country had drawn down the aquifer, and about how long the recharge of groundwater takes. I find it unlikely that the situation has improved much since then.
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It has gotten far worse, especially in areas that receive limited rainfall to start with. Agriculture pulls water out of the ground that takes 1000+ years to recharge. This is particularly true in parts of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico.
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@KS_razerback @Fusion_power @snarfing
Only a short time left for people to do better.
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Third day of 100+ here. I actually had to water everything or i would have worried about losing younger trees and anything potted. Monday they are calling for it to break but i dont believe it until it happens.
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Rain came today which helps but it will take time.
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