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Post by Tucson Grower on May 19, 2023 5:07:28 GMT -6
Tuesday and Wednesday we had thunderstorms pass over, each giving us a little rain for about a minute each time. Then, late last night (Thursday, 18 May 2023), long after the storms were expected to have passed by, it rained, off and on for about a total of 1/2 inch. When I recently went out, at about 3:00 am to do my first watering of the day. It was moist enough that, for the first time in months, I didn't need to water anything - yaaah.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 19, 2023 17:26:28 GMT -6
Getting a break from watering is wonderful news, Tucson Grower. Congratulations.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 21, 2023 7:30:48 GMT -6
I got a break from watering yesterday as we had a storm blow in overnight Friday. It was windy, and we got forty-five hundredths of an inch of rain. There was hail with that storm, but thankfully it didn’t hit here.
The latest drought monitor [that doesn’t even include Friday’s rain] shows us in extreme rather than exceptional drought. It’s progress.
I also just watched a Ryan Hall video that predicts a wetter summer than normal for us due to a strong El Niño pattern developing. It looks like the same could hold true for Oklahoma.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 22, 2023 0:11:38 GMT -6
That sounds like good news all around. Things like that make my heart happy. Thanks, for the positive report Chrysanthemum! If I knew how to make a little Kart wheel emoji I would!
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 22, 2023 5:47:15 GMT -6
There’s even more good news, heavyhitterokra. We were away from home yesterday for Sunday School, worship, and then lunch at the house of some dear friends from church. We were therefore down in San Antonio most of the day. It rained while we were driving to church, not a hard rain, just a drippy one. It also rained all afternoon while we were at our friends’ house. We weren’t sure that any of that rain would make it up to our house. While we were driving home, the sky started to clear up, but there was moisture on the roads. When we did get home, though, we found half an inch in our rain gauge. That was an exciting find.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on May 22, 2023 11:26:12 GMT -6
That’s the perfect kinda rain, Chrys. Same has been happening here and expected to be that way all week this week. It may not be enough. I’m expecting to return to drought next month. Scrambling, planting, scything and laying mulch as fast as I can.
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Post by woodeye on May 23, 2023 8:12:07 GMT -6
That sounds like good news all around. Things like that make my heart happy. Thanks, for the positive report Chrysanthemum! If I knew how to make a little Kart wheel emoji I would! Sounds great! It's probably not the full-on cartwheels that you wanted, these are all I could muster...🤸 🤸♂️ 🤸♀️
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 24, 2023 14:37:58 GMT -6
Woodeye,
That was perfect!
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 29, 2023 20:51:35 GMT -6
I think we need some more cartwheels. We got almost an inch and a half of rain in a storm that blew in this afternoon.
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Post by woodeye on May 30, 2023 8:17:11 GMT -6
I think we need some more cartwheels. We got almost an inch and a half of rain in a storm that blew in this afternoon. 🤸♀️🤸🤸♂️👏As per your request, chrysanthemum , complete with applause.
That is an awesome surprise drenching!
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Post by Tucson Grower on May 31, 2023 16:36:58 GMT -6
It is in the 60'sF at night, but by noon it's near 100F. That wouldn't be so bad, except for the 20 mph wind at 6% RH.
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Post by chrysanthemum on May 31, 2023 20:03:31 GMT -6
Is that unusually low humidity for you, or is that the norm for your dessert climate? We have low humidity, too, in general, but single digits are more the anomaly than the rule.. With a twenty mph wind, things must dry out fast.
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Post by Tucson Grower on May 31, 2023 22:20:27 GMT -6
Humidity is most often in the teens or lower. It certainly dries everything, like a gigantic blow dryer.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 3, 2023 18:54:23 GMT -6
We had another surprise storm last night. There were some pretty terrific winds as it was blowing in. I was watching the storm a bit and saw lots of leaves being torn off trees and thrown around. My neighbor told me that she saw some trees practically bending in half while it was going on.
My garden doesn’t look phased at all. It got a little over half an inch of rain, but the plants stayed on the trellises, and there was no hail at our house, so it was a pretty good storm for the plants.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 4, 2023 15:37:09 GMT -6
I was awakened a little after midnight last night by more wind and thunder. The rain was barely measurable in the rain gauge this morning, though.
Right at the moment, however, there’s thunder and lightning and rain coming down. We got an emergency alert that we’re under a flash flood warning, but the heavy rain seems to be west of us and moving southeast, so I don’t think we’re in danger of the violent downpours and hail.
My garden is absolutely loving the temperatures and regular moisture this year. I took sixteen cucumbers to church this morning to give away. That was my whole supply, but more are growing on the vines, and with more rain, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were big enough for harvest tomorrow.
Edited to add: I made a trip to the garden before dinner to gather some peppers for my daughter to include in the frittata she was making. The rain gauge had about a quarter inch of rain in it.
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