It’s pouring outside!!!
The Dallas side of the metroplex got a storm back in September but up here by DFW airport we got nothing. There was about ¼" in the last half of June & ¼" in September & another ¼" in the first half of October. So, for about 120 day we have had, maybe, ¾" of rain. We’ve had almost that much today, so far.
That’s all.
Jim
We had rain for the first time in 3 months in the last few days. It wasn’t supposed to come until December so it was wonderful :).
It’s been tragic in Brisbane. So much wildlife is dying. 40% of our local fruitbat population has died and the koalas are dying as well.
Is that a typical cycle for your part of the world, to lose so much wildlife during a drought, or is this unusual? With so many bats dead, will there be a takeover of insects that mutiply in standing water? Here in Minnesota, after a heavy rainstorm the mosquitos are awful.
We had a heavy rainstorm on Friday, and it proved that the repair job imthjckaz did on our roof repaired the leak. It could be that the next precipitation we have will be snow.
And JimB, is the growing season in Texas this time of the year over, or is the rain in time to help anything? I am so forgetful of my geography facts.
Primaflora, the lot of the US is just pulling out of drought conditions. I didn’t realize the y’all were having the same thing.
Spidey, after 85 days with no rain and 100 plus temperatures lasting into the middle of September, I don’t think there is anything out there to harvest. Normally this would be getting toward the end of the growing season.
The rain has stopped. A little over ½". Best rain we’ve had in a while. Not enough to do anymore than make the ground a little soft, but I’m not complaining.
Jim
Spiderwoman - our fruitbats eat fruit so I doubt the insects will have a surge in population. However the fruit simply hasn’t set on the trees and the poor wee things are flying 35-40 miles a night in search of food. We’re going to set up a feeding station in the back yard.
I don’t know if the rest of Australia is in such dire straits. I think this is one of the worst droughts in Queensland for many years but I could be wrong about that. We won’t have much of a harvest as nothing grew in spring.
Really bad bushfires too which has hammered the local wildlife. People are finding koalas inside their houses looking for water. Koalas are dying on the roads too in greater numbers than normal. the thing that pisses me off about the fires is that they are mostly lit by idiots. The bush needs fire to germinate seed but not like this. Some days the air was unbreathable. We’ve got more birdlife around too which has come in from the bush.