We got .96" of rain overnight Tuesday. The garden needed it and looked better for it in the morning, despite some downed branches landing on plants in bloom. After it stopped raining again yesterday afternoon, I checked the rain gauge to discover 1.18" had come down in about half an hour. Our gutters were overflowing as they were stuffed with Maple tree seedlings and debris. Then it started to rain again. This morning we had another inch in the gauge. So we got a little over 3 inches of rain in not much more than 24 hours. This seems to be one of the aspects of climate change that we've been experiencing for the last few years. Not a change for the better.
I literally cannot imagine this!
Posted by: Kris P | Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 11:40 AM
It's freakish how localized a lot of the extreme events are, too. The city of Roanoke, in southwestern Virginia, had already had about a year's worth of rain by the beginning of June. Areas to the southeast of the city have had it even worse, with repeated floods. We're just an hour north of there, but are so far pretty normal (on the wetter side of normal, granted). Fingers crossed for you that this is the last deluge for you.
Posted by: Nell Lancaster | Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 01:28 PM
Spring is usually wet here, especially in the SW of England. This year’s was the driest on record. And now we have torrential rain, in what used to be called ‘flaming June’. Not sure we got three inches but I won’t be watering for a day or two!
Posted by: rusty duck | Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 03:41 PM
And I've been complaining about our 2.32 over 5-days. Clearly I have no idea...
Posted by: Loree / danger garden | Friday, June 12, 2020 at 11:09 AM
Oh. I saw the title and .96 and thought 'that's not bad', and then when you doubled and tripled it...
yes that's more than a little wet.
We had just enough to stave off a drought but without anything in the near future we'll be watering again shortly. It's beautiful out though and I'll overlook a lot when it's this nice.
Posted by: Frank | Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 09:11 AM
Your poor peonies didn't like all that rain at once. I hope lots soaked into the ground.
Here it is bone dry. I have been out of town staying with my sister. I went home for a few hours just to see how things were going and found that my DB had the sprinkler going. He said it looked dire out there. If he thinks so it probably was looking bad. Sigh~~`
Posted by: Lisa at Greenbow | Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 03:43 PM