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Sunday, September 2, 2012

How much rain did you get?

We took a little trip yesterday to Arcola. Amish country is always interesting.  I was curious to see how the countryside looked after a good soaking.  The screenshot below from NWS shows the extent of the Isaac rain in our territory.   The yellow is 3 to 4 inches.  Some areas we travelled through got 6 to eight inches.  At the time we left, we had 4 inches.  While fields looked wet, there was very little standing water.  When we got to the area that had 6 to 8 inches of rain in orange, creeks were bank full and there was standing water n the low lying areas.  Even the areas in green got 1 to 2.6 inches of rain.  I suspect some positive aspects to agriculture.  First, the really heavy areas got some pond filling going on.  Second, most areas got enough rain to have a positive impact on soybeans that are still green.  That is about 75% in my area.  Over toward Arcola, about 50% of beans are still green.  The bad news is that some corn fields are going down badly.  Most of the corn is mature, but some still has some drying sown to do.  Rain is still falling in the blue areas of eastern Indiana as I writer this.


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