Jumpy

 It has been really dry on the farm this year.  I'll give you that.  So, why is it Tammy and I get jumpy whenever the forecast calls for multiple inches of rain over a period of several days - even when it is clear we really could use it?

Well, for starters, this is a picture from just last year.

So, is it odd that we actually have kind of celebrated a bit of a drought in our neck of the woods?  After all, we haven't have a really dry spell since 2012.  And... oh... that was the year we had a spray plane fly over our farm with the nozzles on.  Hmmmm.

But, getting back to the weather.  Here is a screen shot from last year.

Yup.  that little black rain cloud with the arrow on it went right over our farm and dumped a whole lot of rain on us.  

That's how it works in years when you have plenty of moisture and you really could use a week or so of dry days just so you can walk without sinking up to your knees in mud.

This year, if you have been watching radar loops, the rain clouds tend to split around our farm.  So, someone ten miles away might report an inch of rain and we get... one hundredth of an inch.

But now, I see graphics for the coming rain system for the tail end of this week.

 Forgive me if this makes me jumpy.  I still have pictures like the one at the top to remind me of what excessive rainfall looks like.

Here's hoping for a NICE rainfall.  I'll take that.

After all, we are quite dry throughout most of the state.  Of course - if you compare where the need is greatest to the area where the amount of rain looks least likely in the map above - we can't expect much of a dent on the drought where it is most severe.

Again.  A NICE rainfall.  We'll take it.  But, let's avoid the giant, broiler chicken wading pool types of rainfall please.