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Old 06-14-2008, 06:54 PM
 
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It seems the storms and rain are getting into the pattern of missing us again. Are we headed into another summer of drought? Better break out the rain barrels.
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Old 06-14-2008, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Durham, NC
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Drought never ended....
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Old 06-14-2008, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Blue Ridge Mtns of NC
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Drought Status - North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council (broken link)
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Old 06-14-2008, 08:23 PM
 
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Drought never ended....

We had been removed from the drought category and put in the abnormally dry category for a bit. Now back into the drought category.
It is just amazing out there. The storms pop up, but then fall apart before we can get any good rains here.
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Old 06-14-2008, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Chapel Hill
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Got some nice rain in Chapel Hill this evening but it's not enough to make up for the lack of rain over the last three weeks.
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Old 06-14-2008, 08:27 PM
 
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Got some nice rain in Chapel Hill this evening but it's not enough to make up for the lack of rain over the last three weeks.
Can I come over and get some?
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Old 06-14-2008, 08:49 PM
 
Location: Blue Ridge Mtns of NC
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Some activity still going on around the state.

http://images.intellicast.com/WeatherImg/Radar/clt.gif
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Old 06-15-2008, 07:53 AM
 
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It rained!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I woke up to a half inch of rain in my rain gauge.
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Old 06-15-2008, 08:02 AM
 
Location: Oxxford Hunt, Cary NC
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So nice to take a break from the daily watering of my newly-installed Zoysia sod!
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Old 06-15-2008, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Piedmont NC
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Default When is a drought not a drought?

Several of us were discussing this very thing just yesterday. We were declared, after the rain from this Spring, to be 'out of the drought' but still considered 'dry' -- drier than usual. I think of balancing my checkbook, and while I may have made up a hole created last week, last month, last year, I still have this month and the next and the one after that I need to address, so I had some difficulty wrapping my head around 'not being in a drought.'

How many years does it take for a trend to become the norm, I wonder.

The general area used to be Zone 7 in my gardening books, and now, it's considered Zone 8. Less rain for a number of years would equate to difference in average yearly rainfall, eventually, wouldn't it? Might become a moot point thinking the general Raleigh area can sustain, or afford to sustain, fescue grass(es) as opposed to the warm season ones like zoysia and centipede. Having moved to Raleigh from Wilmington, I am more used to brown grass in the winter, I guess, as opposed to this brown grass I have during the hot months of summer.

Have changes been made note of, in terms of the general climate here, including average rainfall? It may be that instead of declaring drought year after year after year, that we need to consider having less rainfall and adjusting accordingly. I have been too afraid to pour the water out on the lawn just because my experience these past several years -- three, to be exact -- has been that we ended up with a lot less water come the hot months of Summer here.
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