Category: rain

  • Rain Totals

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/18/news/local/45-moisture.txt" >More moisture, but no record</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The weekend's wet weather didn't break any records but certainly provided more moisture than normal.<br />n<br />n………<br />n<br />nOther weekend rain totals, in inches, were: Joliet, 2.67; Red Lodge 2.44 (Saturday and Sunday); Nye 2.4; Derby Mountain, 1.93; Columbus, 1.93; Roundup, 1.24; Pompeys Pillar, 1.19; Hardin, 1.14;…

  • September Snow

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/snow09172006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/snow09172006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It even snowed for a while yesterday during the rain storm we were having. As I said earlier, Feast or Famine. By the time all is said and done I expect we will have 3 inches of moisture over the 3 day storm. Taken…

  • Talk About Wrong

    I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2052-Rain-Showers.html">complained yesterday morning</a> that all I was getting was rain showers and I needed a rain storm. I WAS WRONG!!! It flat is raining here. Right now we are looking at about 2.5 inches of rain and the weather service says it should rain all day yet today before this thing leaves. <br…

  • Rain Showers

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/16/news/local/40-rain.txt" >City sees 1st rain in a month</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Billings on Friday received its first substantial rainfall in more than a month, officials said.<br />n<br />nBy 10 a.m., about .23 inches of rain had fallen on the city from a system that first rolled overhead about 9 p.m. Thursday, said National Weather Service meteorologist…

  • Rain’s Value

    Shamlessly stolen from <a href="http://www.state.sd.us/doa/secretary/news/Column_174.htm">Larry Gabriel</a>, South Dakota Department of Agriculture<br />n<br />n<font size=5><center>Rains of Confidence</center></font size=5><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A recent headline read, "Rural Confidence Hits Four Year Low." The story was based on a bank's annual survey of Australian farmers. It concluded that drought and rising input costs caused farmers to lose "confidence" that next…

  • What?

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/18/news/state/35-rains.txt" title="Fantasy Story">Rains fail to bring end to drought conditions</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Recent rains aren't enough to snuff out the fire danger in the region.<br />n<br />nIt's definitely no time to be complacent, said Hoyt Richards, southern land office area manager with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation.<br />n</blockquote><br />n<br />nExcuse me!!! What did…

  • The Sky is Falling

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/clouds07242006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/clouds07242006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Threatening clouds. It's been a while since I saw this. I even got a little scared. Water drops fell from the sky and hit me. I thought the sky was falling. Then I remembered this thing called rain and decided that was what was…

  • Dry

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/27/news/state/70-crops.txt">Some crops showing signs of too-dry soil</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Soil moisture took a dive last week and crops in parts of the state were showing signs of stress, as warm, dry conditions were felt across the state, a federal agriculture report shows.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI won't argue with any of this one bit, it's damn dry…

  • Rain

    Oh, did we have a nice rain shower yesterday. Three quarters of an inch spread out over the day. We really needed it. The hot weather had really sucked the moisture out and it was getting awful dry. This was a lot better than the rain we had last Friday. It came down so fast…

  • Rain

    Yay!!! We got about .40 inches of rain yesterday. I wish it would have been more but I will take all I can get. The seeding we did earlier hasn't seen any rain yet and this will help. Most of the seed was planted in moisture so i was not to worried about it but…