Rain today

[Rich Z]

0.49" of rain again today.

[CHASZ51]

Nothing in about 4 weeks.

[Rich Z]

DRY!!!! And not just dry, but HOT and DRY. Got up to 96.8 degrees at the weather station today. Watering all the flowers and fruit trees. Maybe some rain around Memorial Day, but not holding my breath.

[CHASZ51]

Originally Posted by Rich Z

DRY!!!! And not just dry, but HOT and DRY. Got up to 96.8 degrees at the weather station today. Watering all the flowers and fruit trees. Maybe some rain around Memorial Day, but not holding my breath.

Not one drop of rain this month. Just like i said months ago i would be lucky to get any rain so far this year. Been the worst ever. None in Jan or March as well.

[Rich Z]

We were doing OK with rain up to about 2 weeks ago, and then it just stopped dead in it's tracks. Bad for the fruit trees and other plants, but good for us waiting to get our roof replaced and that leaking section won't be leaking so much. I worked on it some more, but haven't had any rain since then.

The way my luck runs, we will get days (perhaps the entire week) of torrential downpours when we are scheduled to have the roof work done.

That being said, I sure as heck wouldn't want to be up on that metal roof as hot as it has been lately.

[Rich Z]

We had a rain storm roar through early AM today. We got a whopping 0.04" of rain out of it. Some small percentage chances of rain next week, but nothing to count on concerning appreciable precipitation.

Just wish this dry weather would dry up those blasted yellow flies. We really can't do all that much outside until they go away. They have a bite that you just cannot ignore.

[CHASZ51]

Originally Posted by Rich Z

We had a rain storm roar through early AM today. We got a whopping 0.04" of rain out of it. Some small percentage chances of rain next week, but nothing to count on concerning appreciable precipitation.

Just wish this dry weather would dry up those blasted yellow flies. We really can't do all that much outside until they go away. They have a bite that you just cannot ignore.

I saw a yellow last week in my yard. They like early AM or late PM. No rain at all in around 6 weeks.

[Rich Z]

Originally Posted by CHASZ51

I saw a yellow last week in my yard. They like early AM or late PM. No rain at all in around 6 weeks.

The yellow flies are out around here all day long. Sometimes I think the higher temperatures during mid day get them more active, and other times I think they do like the cooler hours at dawn and dusk. Does seem that during the hot part of the day that they are more common in shaded areas. Connie and I carry our bug zappers whenever we are out, and I think I have gotten the equivalence of tennis wrist from using mine so much.

We had some trees taken out near the house and the old reptile building so there is some cleanup that needs to be done, mostly from exposed roots and small stumps from machinery running through our woods. But that will be a two handed job, and we just cannot use both hands and not have a zapper at the ready for the yellow flies.

The other day I stopped along route 319 to buy some watermelons from a truck parked there and the guy just blurted out to me, "Do you know how to get rid of these damned yellow flies?" I told him that you really just need to wait out the season for them, as it seems that when you kill one, two more pop up in it's place. We are using the hand held zappers, have a couple of mosquito magnets running, and have hung out some black and blue plastic buckets sprayed with something called "Tanglefoot" that causes the flies to stick to the buckets when they land on them. They are all taking down quite a number of flies, but certainly not all of them.

I guess it doesn't help that one of our neighbors cut down a large area of trees on their property and now have a cattle farm there.

[Rich Z]

Well, we got a REAL downpour today. 3.23" of rain.

Looks like the rest of this upcoming week might bring more.

[CHASZ51]

More rain that i have had in all of March, Apr, May and this month so far.