Things are already getting bad here in Arkansas. We’ve had unusually mild weather the past 2 weeks, but no rain in 6 weeks. Yard is starting to get some brown patches.
If you really, really want to make it rain. First you drag out all the hoses and sprinklers from the shed. Second hook up the hoses. Third. Put on the bathing suit and spend six hours moving the sprinklers around every 30 minutes.
It worked. We got a cloudburst. For six whole minutes. I’m about ready to go back out and turn the sprinklers on. Mother nature has teased me too many times. We get this wonderfully frustrating localized showers. The lucky bastards 12 blocks from my house may be getting a great downpour. We always have a 20% chance of those localized showers. Some pitiful raincloud gives a few lucky blocks rain and the rest of the city is begging for rain.
Tonight is our best chance of a real rain in almost 2 months. 30%! Come on, rain. We need you.
I actually don’t mind getting started watering. It’s like planning a picnic. It always brings the rain.
Mother nature is toying with me tonight. Went back outside and restarted the sprinklers. I’ll be moving sprinklers around until midnight.
A five minute rain shower just doesn’t do much. All it does is wet the concrete and makes you think that its not necessary to water. Then people wonder why their flowers and grass are dying.
Third summer in a row that we’ve had these extended periods without rain. We get plenty in the winter, but that doesn’t keep the grass alive in the summer.
I’m sorry. Ohio has been stealing everyone’s rain to the point that we are calling it “monsoon season.” It’s been going on for months. I planted my annuals into containers on Mother’s Day and have only had to water them twice. Normally I have to water them every day.
I’d gladly send some rain your way if you’ll take the humidity, too.
Well, last night was a bust for rain at my house. At most we got maybe .1 inches. pitiful. Six weeks so far without a good soaking.
Three summers ago I didn’t water and the drought killed quite a bit of my St Augestine. I spent nearly $400 last summer resodding damaged areas in my front yard. I still need to do the same repairs in the backyard. That’ll be another $400 and several days work for me. New sod requires daily watering the first three weeks. Takes that long just for the roots to get into the ground.
Anyway, the yards watered for this week. I’ll have to water again next week.
If you are serious about bringing the rain then you are missing out on some key activities.
Wash your car.
Plan a major outdoor event like a wedding or company picnic.
Wash your bedspreads and hang them outside to dry.
Schedule a partial re-roofing of your house.
Drag all the supplies out to paint your house or shed.
The more urgent the activity, the more rain you get.
Drought killing lawn trees.
We lost two in two years. The neightbors another. Costs money to have them cut down, too.
I am watering the !@#$ trees in the yard. :rolleyes:
We just got a nice 40 minute shower. Maybe .2 inches? That’s encouraging.
Typically we get a summer shower like that almost weekly in Arkansas. Those weekly showers add up to a decent accumulation of summer rain. But the past few years we just haven’t been getting them regularly. Five or six weeks without rain in 100 degree temps is cause for concern. We need a full day of rain just to catch up now.
On the plus side. This has been one of the milder summers so far. Humidity down and temps in the 90’s. We still got the rest of July and August. I imagine it’ll get plenty hot then.
We’re in Hillcrest, too, next door to Holy Souls, and we seemed to get quite a bit this afternoon around 3ish. Not a downpour, but enough that I won’t feel bad about skipping the sprinklers tonight.
I flew out the front door as soon as I saw the rain and schlepped all my ferns off the porch and onto the front walk.
Sounds like what we had last summer. This year we’ve had major floods and rain almost all of the month of June and July so far. Last year was like living in the arid savannah, record temps and lack of rain, this year like living in the rainforest. The mosquitos are insane.
