Gonna Rain Gonna Rain Gonna Rain

16 years ago

Although I realize that, ultimately, we need far more rain than this . . . I am SO excited that it is going to rain over the next few days!

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quirkyquercus
16 years ago
What gives you that impression? The cloudy skies? Glenn Burns?
Or the fact that it will be 30 days since the last rain?
turkeytaker
16 years ago
The forcast says it's got a 50-60% chance of rain here for the next three days.

Everyone, get started on your pagan rain dances for insurance!
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When we have a county burn ban, our commissioners usually lift it once our KBDI drops below 600. I don't know that the OFS uses that same criteria when making recommendations to Gov. Fallin, but I have been expecting them to lift the ban for some counties for a couple of weeks now, so the move didn't surprise me. We are having small fires in our county, but nothing that has gotten the least bit rowdy or out-of-control lately, so I think that they could lift even our burn ban (our KBDI is 661 this morning) right now (which they did not), and we wouldn't have serious wildfire trouble at this point in time. The trouble will come after you have a few frosts and killing freezes if it is still very dry and then you have all that dry, standing vegetation which will burn easily whether it is dead annual vegetation or dormant perennial vegetation. We need to have a really wet fall and winter so that the winter fire season isn't bad. Nothing about our soil is in good shape, Larry, except where I've been watering in the veggie garden and around the fruit trees. We're starting to see cracks in the soil near the house where we haven't had them before, so today and tomorrow I'm going to try to water long and hard in those areas to try and get those cracks to close back up. I'll probably have to water a while, let it soak in, then water again, etc. You know how hard it is to get clay to absorb water when it is rock-hard. Carol, I imagine it will be a real relief to everyone to be able to burn that piled up wood from the big storm that hit your area. As long as it is sitting there, it is such a fire hazard. I'd rather be able to burn that stuff deliberately and have it under control than to have a raging wildfire burn through the area and get it. Some of the Texas counties have been lifting their burn bans here and there along the river. One county made the announcement lifting their burn ban, then said that people should NOT go out and burn brush or do prescribed burning of land for brush removal because it still was too dry to burn. That made me wonder why they lifted the burn ban if they were going to stand there and say "but don't do any burning". That whole thing made no sense. Dawn
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alex_7b
16 years ago
I heard 30% Wednesday and Thursday. 50% Friday.
Sharon4457
16 years ago
Gees....If only I could wash my car, then I KNOW it would rain. :)
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
Wow this is some rain were having, eh?

For me it said 20/30% Not great odds. The sun is shining here in buford as usual.
squirrellypete
16 years ago
was dark, cloudy, foreboding and windy ALL DAY LONG. 40% chance all day. Finally started sprinkling after the sun went down but not much by any means. Any little bit helps and chances look better overnight and tomorrow but today certainly wasn't impressive here given the show it put on.

Please, oh please oh please rain some more.
Danielle
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
I should open an umbrella store ..this rain is really something else. It must be raining so hard that the rain is invisible.
turkeytaker
16 years ago
We had about an hour of steady rain in Marietta.

Just in case you didn't know, though, it's snowing on Stone Mountain...maybe everyone should head over there.

Here is a link that might be useful: 'Snow' on Stone Mountain - A wonderful use of municipal water.
Iris GW
16 years ago
This has been a very disappointing day here. So much promise, so little rain.
sthrngrdnr
16 years ago
I got 1/2 inch of rain in my gauge this morning. I'm very grateful I got that much..
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
I'm moving. I can't take this weather anymore.
It "spritzed" here for about 5 minutes then blazing sun for the worst migraine-inducing humidity.

That fake snow for a fake mountain that's pretty fitting but it's very disappointing to hear this is taking place and wasting all that water.
GAAlan
16 years ago
Collected 0.45" of rain here. Much better than I expected. Skies are very dark to my south as I type.

They have called off the snow at Stone Mountain under pressure from all sides. I can't believe they didn't back down on their own!
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
With all the rain that strikes everywhere but buford I don't see how there is still a drought. Especially north fulton. That place gets so much rain.
buford
16 years ago
no rain here, it looks a bit gloomy now. we will see what happens.
groundcover
16 years ago
We had a bit in Athens today, enough to make the ground ready for more, keep it coming!

best ever weather site-

http://www.wunderground.com/

Being a Yankee, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes make me a bit edgy. This site shows storms and where they are expected to go, rainfall totals and a bunch of stuff I like to look at just because the info is there (echo tops etc.).

wishing you all wet weather!

m

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