Weather Watchers
Related: About this forumhey weather watchers. great lakes drought.
so, not much is being said about the drought here in the great lakes. but it's kicking my butt.
last year i got all of 6" of rain. this year i've gotten maybe 3". my starts are getting baked.
i've noticed a pattern, which may be an old pattern i just never noticed-
i am close to the southern tip of lake michigan, on the ne corner of chicago.
in the last few years i have watched storm after storm hit the lake air mass, split apart and slide south. i end up w zip, while western burbs get drenched.
seems to take a very large storm to hold together to cross the lake. i notice that w michigan is also in a drought. lake effect storms seem rare.
i cop that this could be perception bias. i didnt care much til i started this farm 9 yrs ago.
any thoughts?
Bayard
(22,038 posts)Weeks previous 90's and godawful humidity. We get a deluge of rain/tstorms/flooding, and then nothing for a week or two. Yes--everything getting baked, and then drowned.
August is going to be bad.
mopinko
(70,070 posts)i also noticed last year that most of the big gulf storms didnt make it this for north, like they used to.
the moisture from that tropical storm is stirring things up. but a big band that looked like it was coming straight at me looks to be bouncing north. if i get an inch i'll be happy.
mopinko
(70,070 posts)i got 3 brief bursts of rain. fairly hard, but only a minute or 2. about 1"
50 miles away, it was a tornado. damaged 130 houses.
cursed, i am.