baymule
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Last week over several days, I got 1/2” of rain!!! Yesterday and last night I got 2” of rain! Thirsty ground is soaking it up.
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flowerbug
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that's great to hear @baymule ! 
we're finally getting a good drenching that we've also needed. when i took out the trash i sorted the paper stuff out of the recycle and only put out the rest of it so it wouldn't matter as much. we only get recycle pick up every other week so we do need the space... it was raining enough that my garden shoes were wheezing when i got back to the garage. spongey rubber shoes like crocs can make funny noises if they get holes through them. i also put on the bright yellow heavy plastic raincoat which i've only worn in the past when the ground bees got mad at me.
we're finally getting a good drenching that we've also needed. when i took out the trash i sorted the paper stuff out of the recycle and only put out the rest of it so it wouldn't matter as much. we only get recycle pick up every other week so we do need the space... it was raining enough that my garden shoes were wheezing when i got back to the garage. spongey rubber shoes like crocs can make funny noises if they get holes through them.
i also put on the bright yellow heavy plastic raincoat which i've only worn in the past when the ground bees got mad at me.
baymule
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I got another 1:2” of rain today. Total now is 3” of rain scattered out over a week. That is good, the ground is soaking it up.
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digitS'
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The Weather Service tossed out their prediction of weekday storms with the possibility of snow in AM turning to rain.
They have left the snow idea out and pushed the rain off to the weekend and continuing.
I'm modestly tempted to re-hang the clothes line over the backyard lawn for our largeloads washing day. Under the deck roof line would never work. But, I'm confident that I would just have to bring clothes back to the drier in the afternoon. It's 24⁰f (-4⁰C) right now with everything covered with heavy frost. BTW, I've tried before the freeze drying of clothes — it doesn't work.
digitS'
They have left the snow idea out and pushed the rain off to the weekend and continuing.
I'm modestly tempted to re-hang the clothes line over the backyard lawn for our largeloads washing day. Under the deck roof line would never work. But, I'm confident that I would just have to bring clothes back to the drier in the afternoon. It's 24⁰f (-4⁰C) right now with everything covered with heavy frost. BTW, I've tried before the freeze drying of clothes — it doesn't work.
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digitS'
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At an airport not far away, .70 of an inch of rain fell, yesterday.
Local media says that was the most precipitation to fall in a single 24 hour day this year – a "record." Well, I don't know if we should cloak that in a record category but I can understand their enthusiasm. It was close to an all-day rain and fell at a rate that the soil could absorb it with probably almost zero run-off, even on steep slopes. Snow was only at the highest elevations.
Both rain and the snow will be back soon. We may see a mix even at 2000 feet but it will soon begin to build, up higher. Any official records threatened may be in the year-to-date column where averaging temperatures move the needle to the higher side. Drought conditions appear to lie somewhat safely in the Dust Bowl era although popular history doesn't make any note of this area so far north during that era. I wonder what the US/Canadian border situation was 90 years ago.
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Steve
Local media says that was the most precipitation to fall in a single 24 hour day this year – a "record." Well, I don't know if we should cloak that in a record category but I can understand their enthusiasm. It was close to an all-day rain and fell at a rate that the soil could absorb it with probably almost zero run-off, even on steep slopes. Snow was only at the highest elevations.
Both rain and the snow will be back soon. We may see a mix even at 2000 feet but it will soon begin to build, up higher. Any official records threatened may be in the year-to-date column where averaging temperatures move the needle to the higher side. Drought conditions appear to lie somewhat safely in the Dust Bowl era although popular history doesn't make any note of this area so far north during that era. I wonder what the US/Canadian border situation was 90 years ago.
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Steve
flowerbug
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it has been raining slowly most of the past evening and this morning. all seems to be soaking in ok.
we have a lot of bare dirt in the field to the south of us so i am worried about that being eroded with a heavy rain into the River Nile and then back out to the large drainage ditch.
we have a lot of bare dirt in the field to the south of us so i am worried about that being eroded with a heavy rain into the River Nile and then back out to the large drainage ditch.
Dahlia
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Is that typical for November for you?5F here this morning! No more words needed!
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You'all on the west coast are starting to get one winter atmospheric river after another.
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