How much rainfall have you had?

Everyone voted but no one commented?

We're hot, hot, hot! We need some rain soon. My water bill is skyrocketing.

W8ilmington, 15 miles to our North has gotten plenty of rain, but we've missed out for about 3-4 weeks now. Not that unusual, but still! Even my big rain barrel is completely dry. ;(
Barb

Finally! We got a shower last night but we're still 'way below our average. Our trees are stressed from the high temps and drought conditions. My plants don't respond to the water hose nearly as well as the rain. Come on, Fall.

Day 17 of ≥100°F high temperatures and no rain here – and no end in sight. Everything not irrigated is wilted, stressed, or dead (except for the truly xeric plants). Can't wait for October!

edit: (one day later...) So, just because I wrote that, we got about .075 to .1 inch of rain out of a brief shower this evening.

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It's very interesting that just about everyone is hoping fall will come soon.

Here we've had heat-indexed temps in the 105 to 120F range for a month or more. Virtually every day for a month or more we've had an excess/dangerous heat warning from the Nat Weather Service. We have severe T-storms with torrential rain daily, sometimes 3 or more storms per day. The storms don't cool us down, just make us steamy, humid. Saturday night I went to sleep to the rumble of thunder. The next morning, I awoke to the same thing. It's like it never stops storming. This must be the monsoon season. I'm praying for winter.

Except for the constant fear of flooding, I would rather have too much rain vs drought, however. We had a severe drought a few years back. When the trees in the forest start to shrivel, that's bad. I hope those of you who are experiencing drought will get some rain very soon.

Not enough, even as I sit here and watch it rain. Perhaps if we had not had the hottest weather on record in many, many years, the bit of rain we've had now and then wouldn't seem so pitiful.

It has been a summer with lots of storms and rain. We have not had flooding here but are surrounded by areas that have. This past winter was much the same - too much precipitation. I hope it has gotten it out of it's system and we have a milder winter!

We have had below average rainfall this summer. With temperatures in the 90+F mark, it's been a challenge to keep my gardens hydrated.

We're actually a bit low on rain at the moment but since it's August that's normal. We had rain the other day so for the most part we're good to go for now.

Rain keeps missing us. Storm passed to the north of us again today. Even the drought tolerant flowers are drooping.

Great gardening summer here -- way hotter than usual, and enough rain to keep the lawns green (usually brown by now). Thankfully no severe storms here. My garden is a jungle!

We've had a break in the excessive heat here last couple of days, and its been nice not to have to pull out the hose much this summer or water the potted plants as often. However not so far away, the crops are awful because of the rainfall, few crick (that's how I say it) bottoms have anything but gumbo and rivercrest numbers are as much a part of the weather report as the temperatures.

What a weird summer all around the country!

We are hot and dry and did I say hot?

From a neighboring online source...

Interesting, but it is almost 100% that if we in southern California get a hot summer, everyone else has a nice one... this has been the nicest, coolest summer I can ever remember in southern California (yesterday was only our third day over 100F while 4 years ago we had over 45 days over 100F by this time, and one day up to 120F). But as far as rain goes, it's the same as ever- none. We don't even get a rain cloud normally from end of May until sometime in October. Not a drop. But that's normal. Be nice to have rain, though.

Rain?? Have forgotten what a good rain is like. I don't water much except for new stuff and young trees so a lot of material is paying the price. Water ban is in affect but I'm NOT gonna let a $100.00 little tree die!

The daylilys look very rough but at least I know they won't disapoint next summer anyway.. Last year all it did was rain so I am not sure whats worse.

We were floating in July, but not so much for August so far. This is the first August we've been here (6years) that we have had GREEN for a lawn. Usually by this time it is brown dry and prickly to the bare feet.

We've been blessed these past few days - 2 inches in 3 days. Doesn't sound like much but after a couple of months of above average temperatures with heat warnings and no rain, it's a lot to me! My plants are saying THANK YOU and so am I!!

Michele

I did not know what to vote.. This winter and spring were really, really wet, making up for a several year drought. And then July arrived! Record heat and no rain! However, the last three days it has rained every evening and this morning it rained again. There is a 50% chance of rain tonight.

It has been a hot summer.

Gotta one-up you podster. (Perhaps it will make you feel cooler). A number of years ago we moved to New Mexico. Drove through Phoenix when they were having a record heat stretch. They had an overnight low of 101 (high 120something) while we were there that August, and had a string of over 100 days in a row with temperatures over 100 degrees. I'm quite content to let them have those records.

We've had a "normal" amount of rain this summer, which means there has been none. There probably won't be any until November and no really serious rain until January or maybe the last week of December if Santa thinks we've been nice.

It's been the hottest and driest summer I can remember since I don't know when. There's been more 90* + days this summer then maybe the last 5-10 yrs combined. My poor plants... and waterbill. If I'm lucky to get a barrelful of rain, it's used up in a day or two... and that's happened only twice in the past 2 months. Am preparing to set up multiple rainbarrels and various systems to capture rain when it's plentiful and then utilizing it more efficiently. I don't want to go through another summer like this again.

What is rain?

LOL ~ what IS rain???

Hi Dparsons ~ we lived in the valley ( AZ ) before east TX. I never had a/c in my car and it never kept me home but what I really missed there was rain. When it rarely rained, it monsooned.
For this summer here, we are bone dry but suffer an occasional popup evening shower that drizzles a tenth of an inch or two, then quickly evaporates to add killer humidity to those high temps... weather only a tropical plant could love!

Summer has been HOT and WET!!! More rain this summer totally than the Floods of '93 and '08. Last week had total of 10" + in 3 days this after a horrible, snow-filled winter.

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For a short time this morning, there was a big yellow thing up in the sky, very bright (hurt eyes to look at it). Anyone know what it might have been?

The sky was also a strange blue colour at the time.

Resin

Lots of rain and hot hot hot!!!! Every afternoon the storms come rolling in. My yard is like a swamp....of course I think I live in a swamp down here in southeast Georgia anyway!!! LOL Heat index is 105 to 110 everyday and very very humid. When I get up in the morning and go out to my screened in porch, all the tables are wet from all the humidity and lots of mildew. Take this over freezing cold winters anyday!! Hope those of you that haven't had rain will get some soon. I think it's worse with no rain!

Resin that was our summer last year ! this year we are so dry the jewel weed and mugwort are wilted , when the weeds wilt thats to dry . there is a water ban here as well but we can hand water , I guess they want people who have big irrigation systems to shut them off . I am making a list of plants that are doing ok , certain hostas look so much better than others , daylilies too

We're well above normal for the summer, and a little above normal since March (no snow in March -- unheard of!). Since I have very sandy soil, there's no such thing as too much.

Fairly dry here but not as bad as two years ago. At least there's no watering ban. Just a restriction of no watering 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Not really bad. The only things that have really drooped bad are the hardy hibiscus, but they are water hogs anyway. I just give 'em another soaking and they perk up. What has been really bad is the heat. I've lived in the Atlanta area all my life and I can't remember a summer that got so hot so quick ... and the humidity has been horrible. Will be glad when it starts to cool off.

since its winter here, its normal to be dry! but August is our cyclone month, so i am expecting some rain, with not-so-pleasant winds.
right now its so dry, everybody is complaining that their throats and sinuses are sore!

We've given up watering everything but the asparagus because our water bills have been so high. Thankfully, our freezer is full, so we'll have plenty of home-grown veggies this winter.

We had a brief shower here day before yesterday but I think it evaporated before it hit the ground.

Pretty bad when you go outside at 9 in the morning and are thankful it's under 90°.

This year humanity had a chance at a dip in the current warming trend. We almost got a deadline extension on climate change, but as a species, we blew it:

A beautiful volcano in Iceland spewed far more ash than CO2 (volcanoes can do both/either). It promised a nice, cool summer with above average rainfall. Meanwhile, $omebody in the Gulf of Mexico felt it was too co$tly to follow $tandard indu$try $afety procedure$. Therefore, some good, honest, hardworking people died. An oil well spewed Methane (& later CO2 as they flared it off) for over 100 days counter-acting the kindness that Mother Nature provided in Iceland. Methane is a greenhouse gas 25x more powerful than CO2. It alone could've made things pretty toasty. Instead of our nice, cool summer, it's hot & dry.

Back to the drawing board. At least the scales remain fairly balanced:
Thanks to the volcano, we're not just suffering from the extra gas emissions.

BTW, Humans aren't the only cause of climate change. We aggravate natural processes. We don't control geology or astrophysics.

June was VERY wet and cold but since then, just right. Low to mid 80s most of the summer. Some in the low 90s. Just right.

Here the the heavy raining almost floating.
There are many cities in Pakistan have heavy flood.More then 100000 people died and millions of people lost their Assets,like homes livestock even children wives mothers fathers.I want to request of Prayers for our people who suffered in floods.

Here is my terrace plants with heavy raining.

Yasir

Yasir, that is terrible. We've seen the flooding there on the news. Just awful.

Yasir I am praying for your country I have been watching the news.

Lavina