dmc76 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 What a nice soaker for N.Central Indiana. Farmers dancing right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 What a nice soaker for N.Central Indiana. Farmers dancing right now. A swath north of I-70 has done pretty well today. Farther north it's about a 40 mile swath of .3-.75 with locally higher amounts. Certainly will take it but gonna need more of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickSumner Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 No drought buster by any means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpartyOn Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Need about 5-6 more of these in the next 72 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman_ind Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Indy no longer has the driest month on record. 0.04 inches last hour. Monthly total now, 0.09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman_ind Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Wow, what a soaker lol. It's more than I had out of this...0.00! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Indy no longer has the driest month on record. 0.04 inches last hour. Monthly total now, 0.09 lol, bailed out on the 2nd to last day of the month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 Only a trace of rain today - so far. Firework bans are widespread in Lake and Kenosha Counties now due to the drought. Probably only the communities that fire them off over the water will be allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I posted this over in the general thread. FWA is in the middle of the drought area, they finally get some rain, then they lose it! "The ASOS did not accurately measure the precipitation and the backup gauge blew over during the storm spilling the contents." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Rainfall at LAF Yesterday: 0.50" Today: 0.31" (6am ob missing, so total isn't complete) First time since May 6-7 that at least 0.10" fell on consecutive days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Some nice rainfall totals in Indiana in the past 24 hours. Obviously, we need more. Amounts via CoCoRaHS observers through 8:00am. Kokomo 4.6 ESE: 1.68" Tipton 0.5 W: 1.65" Anderson 2.0 E: 1.35" Kokomo 4.3 SW: 1.33" Anderson 2.5 ESE: 1.30" Eaton 1.8 ESE: 1.22" Sheridan 3.9 S: 1.15" Indianapolis 6.8 NNE: 1.13" Frankfort 4.9 ENE: 1.09" Valparaiso 0.9 NNW: 1.07" Indianapolis 12.6 NE: 0.99" Carmel 1.4 NNE: 0.98" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Well, that just about covers it. I'm glad to see that many drought stricken areas received some healthy rains. I only caught 0.34" yesterday and last night. We were caught between heavier swaths to the north and south. Hopefully, the boundary will produce some more storms in the next 3 days and fill in areas that got shorted yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 Another side effect of drought conditions - fish kills. http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/news/Pages/Lowwater,hotweather,makeconditionsripeforfishkillsin.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Still lots of dust coming off of the farm fields. Didn't get too much moisture in the soil I would assume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 If IND can make it through the rest of the day with 0.26" or less it would become the driest June on record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Posted in the June thread, but it probably applies here as well. For Indianapolis... June Top 10 Driest (since 1871) 0.09" in 2012 0.36" in 1988 0.91" in 1991 0.99" in 1922 1.05" in 1908 1.07" in 1967 1.15" in 1954 1.24" in 1927 1.28" in 1926 and 1966 1.45" in 1962 Driest Months On Record (since 1871) 0.07" in March 1910 0.09" in June 2012 0.11" in November 1904 0.12" in November 1917 0.17" in October 1963 0.18" in February 1907 0.19" in October: 1934 0.20" in February 1935 0.21" in January 1944 0.23" in October 1908 For 2012, 15.15" of precipitation has been recorded, 6.50" below normal through June 30th. To compare to last year at this time, 29.89" of precipitation had fallen...which was 8.24" above normal. Since May 1, 2.79" of precipitation has been recorded...which is 6.51" below normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Things have really escalated around IND the past couple months. The next couple days are important as it appears the window will start to close at least for several days as the ridge reasserts itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Things have really escalated around IND the past couple months. The next couple days are important as it appears the window will start to close at least for several days as the ridge reasserts itself. Location, location, location. NE/N side of Indy has done better recently. Totals of the past 5 days... Indianapolis 6.8 NNE: 1.17" Indianapolis 9.5 NE: 1.06" Indianapolis 12.6 NE: 0.99" IND: 0.04" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickSumner Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Though there has been some relief in Northern Indiana, if you are along and south of I70, the drought is only worsening. Maybe a trace of rain for a few areas but that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I figured that line that moved through Chicago yesterday would give Fort Wayne something measurable, but they got a big fat Trace. Now running about 57% normal precip there so far this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Rent Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Looked at this weeks precip maps. An inch here, and an inch there, but no drough busters. Probably only going to prolong the worsening on the DM for a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I figured that line that moved through Chicago yesterday would give Fort Wayne something measurable, but they got a big fat Trace. Now running about 57% normal precip there so far this year. Areas south and west of the airport received a lot more. I caught 0.99" and just SW of here some spots got close to an inch and a half. At least the southern part of the extreme drought area got a little relief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago WX Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Looked at this weeks precip maps. An inch here, and an inch there, but no drough busters. Probably only going to prolong the worsening on the DM for a week. Outside tropical remnants dousing the region, it's going to be hard to bust this drought "quickly". But at least some spots are picking up rainfall of late...better than nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 9th driest June on record in Detroit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Neighbors across the street moved out last winter and the lawn hasn't been watered since then outside of the rain we've gotten, pretty much browned to a crisp now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I'm not exactly sure what the entire process is to come up with the drought map but I think the cutoff day is tomorrow with the new weekly outlook to be released on Thursday. Overall I wouldn't expect much net improvement in the various categories...some areas may stay steady or even improve a little compared to last time but others probably got worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 ^ Yeah Tuesday is the cut off for gathering rainfall data for the drought maps. I'm noticing with the lack of rain, areas that get mowed have been left to go and the weeds have grown tall. 3-4' weeds are growing in various places that are usually mowed - some spots it's so bad it looks like scrubland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauDodson Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I have a friend south of Marion, IL that has picked up less than 5" this year - thus far. That is simply incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman1952 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Here in Saginaw, MI, we've had only .07" in the last 14 days and 0" rain in the last 9 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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