On the other hand, it is dry out West. According to the Spokane newspaper, we have only received 11.36 inches of precipitation in 2013, while we usually get about 16.5 inches in a year. I don"t know if that is a record dry year, or even close to one. This area is considered fairly arid, not quite desert.
Yet the dryland crops did well this year. We must have got rain when it was needed. It did help that last Winter there was good snow cover and the ground underneath was not deeply frozen, resulting in almost no runoff last Spring, at least at the elevation where I live.
It has been a dry Fall and now we have almost no snow cover. It has been cold enough so the ground is frozen fairly deep. Instead of sinking in, the precipitation we got a couple of weeks ago just froze as ice on top of the ground. We need snow really bad.
The winter wheat was all up and growing well in November, and it looked pretty good. But with no snow to protect it, there will be lots of Winter kill of the young wheat plants. I doubt that the 2014 crop will be very good around here.
I cannot imagine over 15 inches of rain in a month! If that happened here, I bet there would be massive flooding...we are not set up to handle that much moisture that fast. I hope your infrastructure can.
Good luck, and if you can, send some of that excess moisture West!
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