Wet Year

[TractorGuy]

We have had more rain this year than I can remember from previous. There have been just a couple of times I was wanting for rain. Right now I want it to stop.

It won't even dry up long enough for me to fix the road.

 

[prof fate]

Typical avg year for us (western pa) is 35" of rain. We are at 53 inches. We had precip of some kind every day last week. Forecast is for 3 days of precip over next 7..and it's every other day, so NOTHING is drying out.

Went to check fences in the pasture..left ruts, slid all over the hills, some of the fence posts that the deer are hitting are loose..and won't tighten as the ground is too soft.

Where the horses come in and out the dirt, mud that is, is the consistency of pudding. 8 to 10" deep.

Worked on my truck this summer..needed humidity under 60% to paint..never got below 72%. Currently it's 96%...not raining, 9 am.

 

[radioman]

Yeah. It a wet year for sure. I already made a mess from where tractor is stored to driveway. Ugh. I got firewood on other plot i need to split but I'm know ill just get stuck driving there even with chains so my poor tractor is Just sitting there in garage itching to work.

 

[jbrumberg]

Yeah. It a wet year for sure. I already made a mess from where tractor is stored to driveway. Ugh. I got firewood on other plot i need to split but I'm know ill just get stuck driving there even with chains so my poor tractor is Just sitting there in garage itching to work.

I am in a similar situation here in Western MA. I believe that this is the wettest Autumn on record for MA. My subsurface springs on my property are still openly flowing surface water. -3F did not even freeze them. I had planned to rotary cut my lower open 6A's this Fall; but decided not to- at best, my R-1's would just rut the field up and at worse sink. My tractor this year has spent almost all of its time on the "driveway" moving wood.

 

[radios1]

We have had more rain this year than I can remember from previous. There have been just a couple of times I was wanting for rain. Right now I want it to stop.

It won't even dry up long enough for me to fix the road.

WOW, I lived in Florida for 7 years,(PSL) and it never rained for more than 15 minutes, then, the skies would clear up, and you'd never knew it rained, unless you experienced it!. so, something must have seriously changed!. in new York, it can rain for days on end, that's normal, but then' we never get the torrential rain like in Florida..

 

[ruffdog]

Most of the year has forced a no-wake on the lake and river. It sorta dried out for most of the farmers but we never "dried out" like it normally does in the fall. It rained all night (wish it was snow) so that will add to the groundwater. Strange year....

 

[DrRod]

We are approaching a record in DC and central PA. Along with all the rain, it snowed three weeks in a row in April and we had six inches in PA two weeks ago. The yard had standing water on it and it was so slippery that I pulled a hamstring while walking. I didn't get to mow about a third of my fields because they were always wet when I was available. As you head south toward MD you can see lots of fields that just never got planted because they stayed too wet.

 

[Howling]

Very wet year here.

Roofers are finally coming Wednesday. They said over 90 rain days this year. Have been working Sundays to catch up.

Can't put tractor in the shed because that section of yard is a mud pit. I have been digging trenches to direct the water from hill behind and neighbor's yard to the road. Was up to axles to get snow blower from the shed.

 

[jbrumberg]

Howling- Your picture reinforces my decision to keep my NH on/near our gravel driveway. I am not surprised by the 90 rain days YTD. In the +30 years here we have never seen this much surface water here before. Loggers around here are unable to access some of their wood lots due to the saturated soil. Thanks for sharing your picture.

 

[Pawatch]

I can't remember seeing a year this wet. We're close to setting a rainfall record here in Pa.
Some jobs I haven't been able to get done this fall because it just never dried out. I would like to be parking the tractor in the shed but afraid that I would rut up the yard to bad. So it's parked in the garage.

 

[Thomas]

Even up here been wetter than normal mostly this fall...raining steady as I write this.

 

[BoylermanCT]

It has rained in CT on average 2X a week since mid summer, been raining for 15 hours now. From July 1 - Oct 31 we average 18 inches and we are at 27 this year. I can't drive my tractor off anywhere off the driveway or I'll create huge ruts in the lawn. I need the lawn to freeze solid so I can move firewood!

 

[Wagtail]

Second dry/drought year for the East coast of Tassie.

Total rain for November (for me via my rain gauge) was 118.3ml. which was the most for the whole calendar year. It was very welcome. It may help with the hay crop if cutting is delayed 'til after Christmas/NY, but then you're into the middle of Summer.

 

[om21braz]

Here in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, last report on the news put us at 18” above normal. It has to be close to record rainfall.

 

[wngsprd]

Very wet this year. We are 48% above our annual average amount, with a whole month left to go.

 

[stuckmotor]

Tell me about it. I've got to sell cows and I'm afraid the hauler won't be able to get to my corral with his gooseneck. It would suit me for it to be warm and dry here for the next three weeks.
For those in drought conditions I'd gladly share.

 

[Stimw]

I am east of Gainesville Fl and have been running sprinklers on my garden all spring and summer.
Many of the lakes around here are up to 10' below normal.
Sadly some people are paying taxes on lake front property and the lake is 1/4 mile away!

 

[stuckmotor]

I am east of Gainesville Fl and have been running sprinklers on my garden all spring and summer.
Many of the lakes around here are up to 10' below normal.
Sadly some people are paying taxes on lake front property and the lake is 1/4 mile away!

That's perplexing. The OP is in North Florida and having a wet year. I probably don't know exactly what part of your state is considered North Florida.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Wow, these totals are crazy. We are still in drought conditions. At least went from 'exceptional' to just 'drought conditions'. Our normal rainfall should be at around 10"... Yes only 10". So far for the year only 7 1/2"..... Dry, dry, and more dry.

 

[Stimw]

Here was my pasture 2 years ago- 12/6/16 I had 5" in about a half hour and it was soaked in in an hour and a half later!
Just haven't seen rain more than normal this year.