It is pretty dry in Eastern Washington, but we expect it to be dry this time of the year. Some years we get no rain at all between about July 10 and September 15. This year we have had several rains during the normally dry period, though not enough to really amount to anything. I think one of the rains stopped the wheat harvest for a few days.
We worry about lightning storms and the wildfires they can cause during the dry season. We have had several loud thunderstorms nearby, but I have not heard of any large fires getting started.
According to the weather forecast, we might be in for a thunderstorm tonight and it is supposed to rain quite a bit of the time tomorrow. The weather people say there is a huge low pressure system off the coast that is sending us lots of clouds--the first such system of the season. I sure hope it rains a lot.
Again, according to the weather people, we have got about 2/3 of the average precipitation we usually get in 2013. Our Winter was fairly mild and dry, without a whole bunch of snow. But apparently the ground was not frozen too bad and the thaw came slowly, because there was not nearly as much runoff as usual. The melted snow must have sunk into the ground pretty well, since the crops looked real good this year. It also helped that we got nice rains at the right times in the late Spring/early Summer.
In general, this is a pretty dry area. I think the average yearly precipitation is under 15 inches, and 20 inches would be a very wet year. For many crops, there is usually enough moisture to do OK with just what the weather gives us. But with the very dry late Summers, if you want to get second and third cuttings of hay, you better have a system to irrigate.
Yup, pretty dry here. I hope that changes in the next couple of days!
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