Let's hope so. hurricane Dora brought me an inch of rain on Sunday!

tracydr,
I'm not sure where in Arizona you are, but week before last I was in Tucson for 4 days for software training (work-related), and the weather while we were there was cooler than it was in Oklahoma! We really enjoyed it, especially the cool evenings and mornings. They kept referring to monsoon season, but said the rains had moved east that week to New Mexico.

Suzie

I am in Central Texas and all of us are praying down here as loud as we can. I will get out in the street and dance like a whirling Idiot. I will poor libations over the State Capital steps and offer my self up to DON, my lovely Don. I mean look at these words on Weather underground.

Saturday
94 : 74 �F
Chance of T-storms
30% chance of precipitation
Tropical Storm Don

It has it passing to the west so that puts me on the wet side of things....OH please, please please.

I have a wildfire burning 2 miles from me ..600 acres. I am not down wind, thank god but my friends are.. It was 105 today.

Tracy, Last yea yearr, the remnants of Hermine brought rain to our county and some of us in a small area got 9". It was wonderful and helped us end the year with about average rainfall even though the year overall was quite dry.

Wantonamara, I was looking at the most recent possible storm tracks and I think it looks like you have a half-decent chance of rain. At this point, any rain at all would be great, wouldn't it?

Dawn

We got a bunch from Hermine. It was the last soaker we have had .

If Hermine was the last soaker you had, no wonder y'all are so dry.

It was our last big soaker, but it rained on several different days in May and we had about 6" overall. That gives us about 11" for the whole year. While 11" isn't much, I feel fortunate to have had that much. This week we had 4/10s of an inch and you cannot even tell rain fell.

This morning on The Weather Channel they showed how much rain parts of Texas, Oklahoma and the surrounding states would need in order to put an end to the drought, and for most areas in Texas they showed 15" and for Oklahoma it was 12-15" for much of the state.

It will take either one big tropical system or several smaller ones to give any of us that kind of rainfall, and it looks like Don will be a small one. It still would be a start though, and the drought relief has to start somewhere and sometime. Why not now for parts of Texas?

I was just looking through the monthly climate data for our backyard weather station, and it's just depressing. We've also had 11" of rain since January 1st, but 8.5" of that fell on just three days.

But, I also just saw something come up on my Twitter from our local NWS office that said Midland, TX has only received 0.16" total in that same time. I know Midland's in a drier climate anyway, but that's just crazy. I hope Don can hold it together long enough to give them some moisture.

Heather, How awful that 8.5" of your 11" fell in one day. It sure makes a difference when so much of it falls at once---and not in a good way!

I saw Midland's rainfall stat the other day and was appalled. I know that even in a 'good' rainfall year, they are terribly dry but 0.16" is just pitiful. No wonder they're in such bad shape there.

I hope whoever receives moisture from 'Don' is as thrilled to have it as we would be here. Maybe the next tropical system that comes this way will send something further north.

Dawn