Fontana Lake, S.W. North Carolina.OK, we live in NW GA on Lake Lanier.
The drought is not really 6 months in. It rained pretty normally until mid-July, then nearly nothing.
Lake Lanier is down 8 feet. That’s a lot, but not as bad as the 21 feet a decade+ ago.
We NEED good rains to start.
Seemed to me like it rained a lot in Texas this year.
Say what??? Not Texas. Texas had been a severe drought for several years but we’ve come out of it. Woo hoo, happy days! That’s all the evening news can talk about (other than how awful Trump is). Lakes are so full they’re going to lower lake levels 10 feet this January.
They are pushing this everywhere. They say we are 10 inches behind on rain for the past 6 months. But in reality we had the wettest spring for years.
It’s picking stats to promote an agenda.
Here in NE Alabama, several people we know have had their water wells go dry, granted, most of those are up on the mountains or higher elevations but many area farm ponds and lakes are dried up or close to it.
Fontana Lake, S.W. North Carolina.We’ve only been in WV about two years, but the neighbors tell me the local river is as low as it’s been in anyone’s lifetime.
Usually we get a ton of rain with the spring thaw - so much so that mudslides are a problem.
Last year it was so wet we had mushrooms sprouting like grass even into the summer months.
This season, the rains just didn’t show up in the spring and have only had occasional rain during the summer. Barely a mushroom to be found this year anywhere. Most of the black walnut trees didn’t produce and neither did the pawpaws. Hickory nut production is way down. I don’t know if that’s related, but I suspect it is.
Acorn production, however, has been enormous. From what I’ve heard, that means a bad winter’s on the way.
We had a fairly normal Summer here in Central Alabama but the Spigot cut off in early September, and we are now approaching 45 days with no measurable rainfall.
We’ve been in extreme drought here in MA. Lately the rain has picked up and we’re finally getting some relief. Things should return to normal withthe winter snowfall.
The last drought here was in the 1960’s and lasted several years.
Started wet enough. We could not cut hay unitl late July. It has rained very little since and we are feeling it. Soil moisture is almost not down at least 5 to 6 feet. Ponds are drying up, very unseasonably hot. We should have had lots of north wind and cool lingering rains by now. All we get are fast and mostly dry fronts that make little temperature difference.
I pay we don’t have another 2010 to 2012 time again. Our grass is just now recovering from that. We lost hundred year-old oaks then. I hoped I would not see it again in my lifetime.
Some years are wet. Some are dry. Who knew?
I wish I could give you all some of the rain falling on my place. Here in NW Oregon we’ve had triple the normal rainfall for October. There have been 9 days so far this month with rainfall over a half inch.
Rivers are already high. If this keeps up, the flood control dams may have to start releasing water several months early. When that happens, then it is flood city in the valleys.
It is horrible here in Western Alabama. Parts of my yard are so dusty that it is starting to resemble the Dust Bowl.
When I mow my yard, I literally create a dust storm so bad that it’s hard to breathe. Even when my dogs are wagging their tails & their tails hit the ground, a miniature dust storm erupts.
I’m also hating the ridiculously hot temperatures. I have new winter clothes that I didn’t get to wear last year and probably won’t get to wear this year either.
I would love to have several days of rain & cool, Fall temperatures. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon.