What the ____ is up with all the rain in the Midwest?

7/9/2015 | Mad Dawgg

[John W]

Yes, noticed when it went around here it didn’t miss there.

[arthurus]

Joe Bastardi answered all that, and the drought in Cali months ago. I don’t have time to find the link and post it but it’s all there.

[stboz]

El Nino stacked on top of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Great is our dessication here in Kaleephornya. We hope Bastardi is right and we'll get rain this winter.'Till then it's dry as a popcorn fart where I am.

[Lazamataz]

It’s not rain.

The Earth is crying.

[Paulie]

The official answer is - you guessed it - GLOBAL WARMING!

Now pony up more taxes to the UN.

[TigersEye]

It’s the same all over the west too. CO northern Rockies here and I saw the sun today. It was shocking!

[Salamander]

It’s hitting the mid-Atlantic, as well.

Wettest summer, ever.

There are strange, fungal things growing in my yard that look as if they belong in a Lovecraft novel.

[laplata]

Pretty sure its because of fracking.

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That’s right. After all, the numerous shark attacks are due to Globull Warming.

[KarlInOhio]

I replaced my mower with sheep, but they got too fat to move.

I have never been on a four day mower schedule. Usually by July I'm mowing once a week or longer.

[Mad Dawgg]

pics please (before they become mobile and gather their forces)

[grania]

This is weird. When I first moved here from MA, people thought I was crazy when I said the weather is much better here. Why? Because it would rain for awhile then dry off very quickly. In MA, the rain was often longer duration and the ground would stay wet for days, because of the soil and vegetation.

But this year in near-Cleveland is different. Since about June 10, there have been about four storms when the rain comes down in walls of water with smaller storms about half of the time between those major storms. And it hasn't dried off.

We're getting close to mid-July. If the pattern doesn't change soon, it isn't going to be much of a summer.

[C210N]

Since tiring of Rain, you'd like something else to fall? I know just the thing... Ooobleck!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We had 10 inches of rain in two days in south Missouri. Lake of the Ozarks was two feet above normal pool. Flood gates on the dam were opened, shoving 80 thousand cubic feet of water down stream per second.
Above Lake of the Ozarks, Truman Reservoir has 12 extra feet of flood water.
The ground hereabouts is gooey from too much water.

[stboz]

...shark attacks are due to Globull Warming.

More like a bunch of people going to the beach and acting like shark food.

[shibumi]

"What's up wit dat?"

(Cliff certifies that it is not raining in his kitchen.)

[Mad Dawgg]

"I replaced my mower with sheep, but they got too fat to move."

[apillar]

Yep, I know what you mean. I live in West Virgina right across the Ohio River. It has rained every single day (except ironically the 4th of July) for the last three weeks. There is moss starting to grow on my blacktop driveway it’s been so wet for so long and I haven’t been able to mow my yard because the lawn mower sinks several inches into saturated ground.

[Salamander]

Just for you, I went out to snap a couple and the most “interesting” one is currently dormant and dried up, thanks to actual sunshine yesterday.

When it inevitably revives during the next downpour, I will get some photos.

It’s a strange, day-glo orange/yellow thing growing on my cellar door.

Very frilly.

And disconcerting.

:D

[I bet you remember the movie “The Mushroom People”, too]

[smokingfrog]

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I don’t know. Maybe it is God’s way of punctuating the drought in California — like saying, see what you are missing.