wxdude64 Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 13 hours ago, Jrlg1181 said: Current status of the Moormans River - as it emerges out of the Shenandoah Nat Park in western Albemarle... That be dry! Ouch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 Looking around at river/creek flows in my area, MOST (not all) have managed to get near 25% to median of flow, way up from around the 10% mark of last week. I've had close to 3/4 inch in last 12 hours, and around 1.25-1.50" in last week. That is a start, it will take a LOT more to get them running/flowing like they should be at this point in the year, or we will fall right back down towards that 10% number. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 My CoCoRaHs station Jan-April - 2024 running at or near the top for precip. Jun-July - dead last, and less than 50% of the prior low. Flash drought! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 On 7/22/2024 at 1:35 PM, wxdude64 said: Looking around at river/creek flows in my area, MOST (not all) have managed to get near 25% to median of flow, way up from around the 10% mark of last week. I've had close to 3/4 inch in last 12 hours, and around 1.25-1.50" in last week. That is a start, it will take a LOT more to get them running/flowing like they should be at this point in the year, or we will fall right back down towards that 10% number. Happy for you................. I have had .40" in the past week and nothing in the past 24 hours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxdude64 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 So, wife and I dug up/dumped the 'taters a while ago, they had laid over and died off about two weeks ago. We were concerned with all the rain (close to 2" in last 4 days) that they may start to rot due to the wet ground/dirt inside the bags. NOPE. Top 1 1/2 to 2 inches were wet, dry as a bone rest of the way thru the bags (20 gal) to the bottom. So just HOW dry was it before the previous 4 days? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 21 hours ago, wxdude64 said: So, wife and I dug up/dumped the 'taters a while ago, they had laid over and died off about two weeks ago. We were concerned with all the rain (close to 2" in last 4 days) that they may start to rot due to the wet ground/dirt inside the bags. NOPE. Top 1 1/2 to 2 inches were wet, dry as a bone rest of the way thru the bags (20 gal) to the bottom. So just HOW dry was it before the previous 4 days? I have no idea (and perhaps I should dump this over in the MA gardening thread) but...are potatoes hard to grow? You had half soaked, and half dried out taters? Dear Lord. Maybe they're too hard to grow in VA...or at least in times of drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSG Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 Lots of improvement for the SE half of the state. Things continue to get worse behind the Blue Ridge. DSCI for VA dropped overall since last week and should continue to do so, but not because of things happening in much of this subforum. @MN Transplant you can really see the "flash drought" in the statistics. 3 months ago the idea of being where we are now was laughable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 2 hours ago, vastateofmind said: I have no idea (and perhaps I should dump this over in the MA gardening thread) but...are potatoes hard to grow? You had half soaked, and half dried out taters? Dear Lord. Maybe they're too hard to grow in VA...or at least in times of drought. Potatoes are easy to grow in Va. I have been doing it for decades. Put seed potatoes in ground about May 1 and dig early August after vines have died down. They need lots of rain or watering when blooming. I have dug a big bushel in the past week and probably have another bushel to go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 26 minutes ago, stormy said: Potatoes are easy to grow in Va. I have been doing it for decades. Put seed potatoes in ground about May 1 and dig early August after vines have died down. They need lots of rain or watering when blooming. I have dug a big bushel in the past week and probably have another bushel to go. I grow potatoes too down in Calvert. I was not expecting them to do that well in the shade and clay soil but randomly I get quite a few every year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSG Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 24 minutes ago, stormy said: Potatoes are easy to grow in Va. I have been doing it for decades. Put seed potatoes in ground about May 1 and dig early August after vines have died down. They need lots of rain or watering when blooming. I have dug a big bushel in the past week and probably have another bushel to go. I threw some old red-skinned taters I'd left in the pantry too long in a planter last summer. It went surprisingly well, was gifted with probably 3x what I started with 2 months later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newman Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 I wouldn't want to be an AT thru hiker in Virginia right now, I bet water sources are scarce 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frd Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Some rains for the Northern portion of the area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfStock1 Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Forecast looking really nice next week for NoVA. Finally some good relief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imgoinhungry Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Forecast looking really nice next week for NoVA. Finally some good relief.Looking like the remnants of Debbie will stay inland and not off the coast. Should bring multiple inches of rain to mid-atlantic. Fingers crossed. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 The drought seems to definitely be shrinking in size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 14 minutes ago, WolfStock1 said: Forecast looking really nice next week for NoVA. Finally some good relief. I have high hopes but will only believe it when it's in the gauge. Of course, this extreme drought has to break at some point. It might as well snap next week. 2021 is my driest first 7 months in the past 40 years with 17.37", followed closely by 2002 at 18.05"and this year at 18.80". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 2.45" summer-to-date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastCoast NPZ Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Up to 2.83" since Memorial Day. 1.49" below last summer's record. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenkinsJinkies Posted September 5 Share Posted September 5 Saturday’s rain has pretty much vanished. QPF got walked back so much we’re now in the lowest rainfall total that isn’t entirely dry. GFS shows we might not get anything at all until the 2nd half of the month, possibly as late as the 20th or beyond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Still over 6" below normal since the start of June. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frd Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 1 hour ago, MN Transplant said: Still over 6" below normal since the start of June. A week of clouds and nothing to prove for it. Rain totals here were very low. Only thing this weather did was make me feel uninspired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 1 hour ago, MN Transplant said: Still over 6" below normal since the start of June. Doing some mental math, I’d guess I’m only 1-2” behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 2 hours ago, WxUSAF said: Doing some mental math, I’d guess I’m only 1-2” behind. Yeah, you’ve done much better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormy Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 Down in this neck of the woods, we are so lucky! 5.21" during the past week and 3.92" the previous week for a total of 9.13" in 2 weeks!! But, less than 20 miles to my north, only half of that amount! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 September rainfall across the region - the dry deficits switched to our NE for the most part. https://x.com/nwsmarfc/status/1841238116369383755?s=46&t=rKRo5ildsXjOFWkYH7wDlg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfStock1 Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 (Sigh) Here we go again. Hasn't rained for a couple of weeks now, and nothing in the forecast. Side note - why does NOAA keep moving the rainfall history map on their website? I bookmark it, and it's soon gone. Can't find it now. The bookmark I had: https://water.weather.gov/precip/ now brings up river gauges instead, even though the URL specifically contains "precip". You can add in some kind of precip info via checkbox, but it's pretty useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 In my 11-year record, 2024 has the driest June, July, and potentially October. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPE Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 Less than 2" in Sept, and nothing so far in October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTy Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 How come the drought monitor site doesn't have SoMD as a more severe drought? According to the climate reanalysis we're basically ground zero for the neg DFN on rainfall in the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JenkinsJinkies Posted October 21 Share Posted October 21 5 hours ago, IronTy said: How come the drought monitor site doesn't have SoMD as a more severe drought? According to the climate reanalysis we're basically ground zero for the neg DFN on rainfall in the region. Sun angle, things crisp faster in the warmer months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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