GOSH DANG IT... need to vent! (IL Drought.. ongoing thread)

[Pebbles]

OMG.. rain rain... AND MORE RAIN WHOOOOOOOOO.. this is the most rain we have seen in FOREVER *runs around like a mad woman cheering after touching the ground to making sure it really is wet and she's not dreaming*

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... klot.shtml

[pojo]

OMG.. rain rain... AND MORE RAIN WHOOOOOOOOO.. this is the most rain we have seen in FOREVER *runs around like a mad woman cheering after touching the ground to making sure it really is wet and she's not dreaming*

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... klot.shtml

My brother is a student soil scientist up west of Green Bay... hes been testing dry cracked dirt for the past couple of weeks. I nice drenching rain at once... Being so dry, it would be surprised if minor flooding does occur. Dry ground has one of the slowest absorption rates and a good majority of Northeast Wisconsin is clay... that's even worse. Due to the lack of water, the soil particles have completely or near completely dried up.... this will take longer for the particles to absorb water and expand again. (Sorry, I'm an Earth Scientist)

Anyways... I called home tonight (Appleton) and I caught a glimpse of the NWS radar out of Green Bay..... Storms, storms and MORE storms.... People back home claim that we were in a drought... however, I caught a glimpse of the Drought Monitor (NOAA) and it said portions of Northeast Wisconsin (my home area) were abnormally dry... not necessarily considered a drought type pattern.

Hopefully after the rain you should haven't a problem. However, it does take soil particles a while to recover from the drought-type conditions they are currently in. If possible consider watering after the rain happens... even some lawn food may help to return the missing nutrients back to the soil.

[azskyman]

Looks to me from way out here in amongst the cacti that you are going to get some more rain (the all-at-once type) later tonight and again tomorrow before things dry out again.

Better find a way to capture it and save it in case it dries out again til Labor Day!!

Keep an eye on the sky the next 24 hours, though!

[mike18xx]

Best of luck, Pebbles: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p20-r/si.kdvn.shtml

[Pebbles]

Pojo... be an earth scientist all you want luv.. me and the 12 year old love it!!!
Mike18xx... thanks hun
azskyman... wish I could capture it... todays technical discussion from the NWS is discouraging...specially the first couple of lines.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
145 PM CDT TUE JUL 26 2005

.PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION...

PATTERN CHANGE UNDERWAY TO BRING COOLER/DRIER AIR INTO AREA. AFTER
TODAY, NO RAIN IN FORECAST SO THE DROUGHT WILL CONTINUE AS RECENT TS
TOO LOCALIZED TO END IT OVER THE AREA. STILL NEED 7-9 INCHES OVER
THE AREA TO REALLY END IT.

MAIN TS ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON TO BE FAR SE WITH A MIX OF SHRA/AND
A FEW TSRA REST OF AREA. WATER VAPOR PICS STILL SHOW MAIN ENERGY
BACK IN W IA WITH BROAD AREA SHRA AHEAD OF IT INTO SW WI. THIS WIL
CROSS AREA THIS EVENING/TONIGHT WITH A WIDESPREAD BUT LIGHT PRECIP
EVENT.

SECONDARY TROF MOVES THRU BY MORNING WITH THE REAL COOLER/DRIER AIR.
GFS THE FASTEST TO PUSH THE RH OUT OF AREA BY 12Z WITH NGM/NAM
SLOWER. WILL SPLIT DIFFERENCE AS THE NGM/NAM LOOK A LITTLE TOO SLOW
BASED ON THEIR 700 TROF FORECAST. BUT GFS WAY TOO HIGHS IN ITS QPF
FORECAST FROM 00-06Z OVER NE IL JUST S OF CHI AS MAIN INSTABILITY
WILL BE IN CENTRAL/S IL/IN.

LOOKS LIKE THIS COOLING RELATIVEY SHORT LIVED AS UPPER LEVEL HEAT
HIGH BACK OVER S ROCKIES BY SATURDAY NIGHT SO SOME HEAT RETURNS WITH
TIME BUT FLOW THEN BEGINS TO BUCKLE SO NOTHING LIKE THIS PAST
WEEKEND, JUST BACK TO SEASONAL HIGHS. WITH BROAD WEAK HIGH OVER AREA
LOOKS LIKE SOME LAKE COOLING EACH DAY EXCEPT MAYBE SUNDAY.

AT 1PM QUITE A TEMP CONTRAST ACROSS FORECAST AREA WITH ONLY 70 AT
RFD IN THE CLOUDS/SHRA BUT 90 AT KANKAKEE.
AF

[Pebbles]

The storms that are coming through knocked a big branch off my tree in my yard. My 12 year old volunteered to run out in the rain once the wind died down and do a comparison pic.

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/7774 ... 0011pt.jpg
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8672/branch9fq.jpg

[PurdueWx80]

Drought disaster declared for almost the entire state of IL!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050728/us_ ... llinois_dc