NO MORE RAIN!!!!!!

[HunkieDorie23]

Yesterday, the meterologist said that we were going to have 4 more inches of rain by thursday. My garden is completely saturated. I haven't even been able to plant onions yet. My tomatoes are doing great, 4 weeks old and about 6-8 inches high. They look like small trees but I have no idea if I am going to be able to get them in the garden when it's time. I put some of them out to start hardening today. They are on the front porch not to keep them out of the sun but to keep them out of the rain.

So is this a La nina year?

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Please send it to Central Texas. We'll take (and NEED) every DROP you can spare!!

Honestly .... we have cracks in our soil 1" wide in some places ... and we usually don't see this kind of dryness until August or September...

 

[digitS']

. . . So is this a La nina year?

I have really stayed out of this thread since I knew that rain was a real problem in the central part of the US, but not here. Here it is cool with sprinkles . . . cool with wind . . . cool with clouds . . . even, cool with sunshine.

Dorie's comment about La Nia and Daisy's rainless Texas comments caused me to look at what NOAA has to say about La Nia. I'd like to post a link but NOAA's information is terribly scattered and often tied to earlier La Nia & El Nio years - even from the last century!

Since the weather patterns start from the west and move east, for the most part . . . and, because I live over here , I looked at the West. What I came away with is that usually La Nia years have a quite clear boundary between rain and Southwest drought that runs from about San Francisco Bay to the middle of Wyoming. (Eastern Colorado gardeners have been praying for snow/rain and might even take hail if water doesn't show up soon.)

The effect of La Nia is worldwide and, apparently, it is blamed for the catastrophic floods in Australia, for example. But, it is also implicated in the huge snowstorms this winter on the east coast of the US and, of course, the more recent major storms in California.

Good or bad, what it looks like to me is that these major cycles, tied to ocean water temperatures, are coming quickly in the most recent years. So, La Nia may be abating rather soon but this might just put us right back in the opposite, El Nio cycle . . .

Steve

 

[momofdrew]

we have been having a little bit of everything Rain and Snow on Saturday Rain on Sunday...it is overcast sprinkling right now... My poor chickens are going to sprout webbed feet...

 

[lesa]

momofdrew, I said the same thing about my chickens. They have so much fun in the rain- I think they are ducks! Our seven day NOAA forecast, has rain everyday!!!
All the rows in my veggie garden are raised, with aisles in between. This method has really saved us, in these rainy times. Water runs like canals through the aisles, but the roots aren't sitting in water.