It's sure not here! They keep teasing us with it though :(

Since Jan. 01 we've had a grand total of 6.5" precip...2" below normal.

Vera

it started drizzling here, no rain to speak of but humidity was unberable all day today. With so many new seedlings my water bill going to be sky high as well...

The rain ain't here either! Last Friday we got 0.2" of rain and that was the first since May 15. Our deficit was over 7" as of several days ago.

They predict rain about every day, and some areas of the city of gotten some. It just never rains in my neighborhood. Watching radar it's like seeing the parting of the Red Sea. Lines of storms break up when the hit this area and go everywhere but in my yard.

Our grass is burning up, too. I can't keep up with watering the flowers. I just got home from work and all my plants were wilted. It's 93 degrees again, and I'm watering. Just taking an iced tea break to cool off in the a/c.

Karen

Just had a heavy downpour now...with thunders and lightnings. Rain..rain..rain, come down some more, please. It was 92+ earlier. Still in the 90s. Hope it cools off some.

Yup...raining here, too. Will be for the next few days....a nice break from the daily watering ritual!

We had our first significant rain in 3 months a couple weeks ago and have had a few more good rainfalls since. Thank goodness. This was the dryest spring I can remember. We usually have a period of drought but it happens in July and Aug, not Mar-May! We normally have a really wet spring. Everything about the weather here has been odd since last Oct.
Karyn

I won't tell you about our weather. I'm very happy with it... :O)

Hope you all get some nice steady rain soon!

Sorry. I don't mean to be hogging the daily rain. We are scheduled for another 6" this week. It didn't even rain this much the summer I lived in Seattle. I'm not unhappy about the moisture, but if we don't get more sunshine and more heat the okra and cucumbers are never going to make.

I'll talk to my Indian friends and see if they can send clouds your way.

We did not receive ANY rain today, though it poured in Chicago. It took my husband 3 1/2 hours to get home from Indiana today :-( ALL roads were flooded but we got no rain & we are looking mighty parched around these parts.

Sorry Ron, it's east of you. We've had some pretty good showers the past couple of days, and we are really grateful for them after 2 to 3 years of drier than usual weather.

Get out there and do a rain dance, Ron, and be sure to put the pictures up on the Gallery LOL.

Mary

Finally! It was my turn today. When I got home from work there was 0.8" of rain in my rain guage. And another shot at it tomorrow, with lower temps over the weekend (low 80s)

Karen

Me too!!!
Got 2 1/2" in under 2hours with more to come tonight.
Lost power for about 3 hours but it was well worth it.
Ron

Hey, we got 4" in 1/2 hour yesterday and more is coming down right now. All right!. People's basement got flooded and the power was out yesterday, though. And not to mention how many flights were diverted from O'Hare airport yesterday.

I am beginning to think I wouldn't recognize rain if it fell from the sky?
Last time it rained even the darned cats were SO excited. They kept peeking over the porch into the rain barrels to see them fill up, and staring into the garden to watch the rain on the leaves.
That was quite some time ago and that was only the 3rd or 4th rain since very early spring.

They keep threatening desert like temps here all summer if this keeps up, up into the 100's most days in August! YIPES!

GGG

Where's the rain?? I have it! All of it. My area is a raindrop magnet. I've hardly been in my garden since APRIL because it's a constant... like daily... wet, muddy, dripping mess. I'm going to throw some goldfish in my raised beds if it doesn't stop. I'm going to start growing rice.

I watched the rain come up the drive - but nearly as soon as it hit it was drying....

It has been raining for two days straight...we are now flooding...aak!

Poured like mad last night with lots of lightening and thunder. It's calm now but more storms are expected this afternoon.

I think we have the entire rainfall for the United States here :) I'm not complaining (yet), we've had a lingering drought for several years and we needed just about every drop we've gotten, but 16 days of constant rain is getting on everyone's nerves just a little. In OKC we had a small break yesterday, but as I type there's more rain falling outside. Tuesday I had 4 inches of rain. I stopped keeping track of the entire totals...but it's way more than the official totals they keep touting.

The weather map is quite interesting...they keep showing there's a High on either side of us and a Low that is stuck in the middle and can't move, that's why the rain won't go away. It's sucking all the Gulf moisture up and dumping it on here.

The weatherman said there was a chance for another 5 inches of rain in the next two days.

Lisa

It's here! The sky opened up and it's dumping buckets full. I'm thrilled! I don't remember when it last rained like this.

Karen

You must be getting what we did yesterday and the day before that!

No rain here either. Our chance dropped from 80 percent to 30 percent in 24 hours. Syracuse and below and to the east got storms, we got....wind.
We've been waiting for that rain. And next week doesn't look promising either.

Linda

Well, it isn't falling here either? Lawns are already turning brown, and I'm watering some things twice a day.

So much for the thunderstorm threats and the severe ones too. Nothing, nada, zip.

My town is 27 square miles and last Thursday, 24 miles of town got pouring rain and thunderstorms.
Sure enough, I live in that 3 square mile circle that didn't even get a drop of rain.

Didn't get any of them today either. This is nuts.

Fran

I haven't made it out to my rain guage to check it yet this morning, but we got a lot of rain. Everything is really soupy, and it's drizzling again. I can't tell you how happy I am that my turn finally came. Maybe we'll change from a "severe drought area" to a "moderate drought area" again. I am so sick of watering.

Timing is perfect on this because we're leaving town today for a long weekend. My neighbors will only have to water a few pots for me.

Karen

1.1 inches in my rain guage, yesterday and overnight.

It is still raining! Not supposed to stop until tomorrow. This is about the time I wish I had not been begging so hard for it...

We are turning into a desert, I tell you....the monsoons are here.

Hey, thanks, Karen, for reminding me. I bought a rain guage last year. I need to take it out of the box and put it out. lol.

FINALLY FINALLY got some badly needed rain yesterday afternoon. It didn't even start off as a sprinkle...it was a outright downpour lasting about 25 mintues with not so wanted winds :D

I hear ya, Kat. Hubby was going to mow this weekend since it didn't get done while we were on vacation for 2 weeks, and now there's no way. Glad we have boxer dogs; anything smaller would be lost in the grass. I will be weed whacking the first rainless day just to knock it down enough for him to mow when dry! And - oy! with the crabgrass! I sure wish it was something I wanted, 'cause it sure took over while I was gone. :-P
Terri

West Michigan is still waiting for rain. I haven't mowed the grass in almost two weeks--and we have in-ground sprinklers! Usually this time of year we're mowing 2-3X weekly. I've heard that when it's dry, you shouldn't mow as often or as short so you provide the ground with shade to decrease the water loss. So I've been holding off. I think I'll mow tonight when it's cooler. We still don't have any rain predicted for at least the next 10 days.

Martha

Finally! The rain has stopped here...about 20 inches or so since Wednesday (rained non-stop)...aak.

Wow! 20 inches in less than a week! That is incredible, and downright scary. Hope your garden comes out okay.

Our average rainfall for the whole year is around 12 inches, but we are behind this year. We have only had a little over 3 inches so far this year. Our temps have been in the upper 90's for the last two weeks, today it was 103, and it will continue to be over 100 for the next few days. It's not LIKE a desert here, it IS the desert!!!

Today while my DH and I did yard work, the boys played on a slip -n- slide, then my DH made everyone a lemonade slushy. Summer is officially here!

Webcat - 20" in a week! Dear God, I thought our 8" in 2 days was freaky. That is scary! I keep watching the flood footage on the news and almost cannot believe it's from Kansas and Oklahoma. Beyond strange.

Yep, as a former resident of Oklahoma City, I can't believe all the rain out there with US so crispy in Columbus, Ohio. Those flood stories are quite sad. I feel guilty wanting some of that moisture.

Our rain was last Wed and Thurs, and we got about 2" in those 2 days. We left town Fri a.m. and I couldn't believe how much better everything looked when we got back last night. The lawn even looks better.

Didn't you get any of that rain, Bakemom?

Karen

Not enough. Seems there is a forcefield around I-270 that surrounds our area. I understand some parts of central Ohio are doing fine.

Yea...my horse trough is completely full...didn't have to fill it up before all of this started.

It will take a while for everything to dry out...the ground still feels like a sponge...

Some plants took it hard (sunflowers and my Salvia coccinea have "wilted"), but most look like they will pull through.

Certain areas close to me (to the west) had to be evacuated...my pond certainly was the highest I had ever seen it...

The rain needs to get itself smoothed out. We went over a week with none at all, and got almost 2" last night. The last rainfall was also almost 2" in one burst.

I'd prefer to see a quarter-inch every other night, thank you very much.

I hear you, Donn, but...alas...it is not to be. :o(

I'd settle for ANY precipitation at all! This morning I woke up and it was overcast. I got all excited since we haven't even had clouds in weeks. It is starting to resemble the place in that movie 'Holes', LOL. "Let me tell you a story about a place where it never rains, THE END". Anyway, then the clouds just followed the mountain range, which is just to the south of us, and my hopes were squashed.

Finally!
We got rain all day yesterday, the first time in weeks that we've had more than a "tinkle". We're supposed to be getting more today, then getting very very hot. That should give things a boost around here.

Linda

We got another 1.1 inches yesterday.

Very weird, indeed. No rain for about 6 weeks, and now about 3 inches in a week. We're all very thankful for every drop, even though we had a tornado watch all day yesterday. When the rain came, it was fast a furious, winds 55 mph.

Karen

It's raining again.

Karen

Well the rain we got didn't even make a dent (((sigh)))

We are now in a severe fire danger alert; not like it doesn't happen every single year, but wishful thinking.

Vera