August 11 = Drought Relief?

[Jason McIntosh]

Dry crops and sleepless stormchasers in the Midwest; this is your day!
A warm front and small wave of low pressure will move into the area tonight and bring a good chance of heavy rain and possibly severe weather. I know you chasers in Northern IL and Southern WI will like this one. Lets just hope the cloud cover doesn't ruin it for us today. Good luck! :wink:

 

[Dan Cook]

still won't be enough to save crops. Every county in IL has applied for disaster relief.

 

[Joe Guerra]

Ouch, sounds like its rough over there, we've finally cooled down in CT, but I'm still waiting for rain for about 2 weeks to really make it nice 8)

 

[Steve Miller]

Good luck on the precip up north!
Almost all of Oklahoma was declared an agricultural disaster area last Thursday due to drought.
Looks like California and Texas had a few counties listed as well. Here is the press release: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/FullStory.asp?StoryID=2169

 

[Joel Wright]

I've already had a little under 3/4" of rain today, so I'm pretty happy. This is the most rain I've seen in awhile!

 

[Dan Cook]

we actually got decent rainfall here.

 

[Adam Taylor]

I thought the crops around here we're going to be toast until we got about 5" of rain on the 25 of July. It was definatly a drought buster. Even though we aren't as bad as Illinios, Iowa and Indina was/is. Got 1.75" yesterday so we've had some decent rain at least. Thank God.

 

[Anthony Silver]

We FINALLY have some relief in sight here in my neck of the woods. We've got decent shots for rain all the way through Sunday. The only bad thing will be the threat for flash flooding, but I guess we'll take whatever we can get our hands on.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Hopefully we might get some relief here in Amarillo in the next couple of days. We are about 2 inches below normal on rainfall for the year.

This is looking pretty good right now:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.php?...ma&CiTemplate=1

 

[Joel Wright]

We got about an inch of rain total in the last 24hrs. I'm thinking about starting to build an ark.

Seriously though, it is good to see. We're now back down to a foot of precip below normal for the year. It was the brownest I've ever seen around here the last month or so. It looked just like a dessert in certain places. Usually this is a very green, humid place in the summertime.

I was actually thinking about planting a cactus in the back yard.

 

[Dan Cook]

same here joel lol.