Drought in ‘24
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From: ksq232
27-Feb-24
We’ve had better rain this winter than the last 3, but we’re still in a very serious situation. Will we soon hit 700 days without a 2” rain? I hope not!
From: KB
27-Feb-24
Looking better than this time last year. Hopefully the seasonal temps and a couple big systems materialize next week.
From: ksq232
01-Mar-24
They keep moving the rain down the line, it has seemed like it was 6-8 days out for several weeks now. Will the reoccurring periods of drought that began June of ‘21 be broken this year? Or will we remain in a place of desperation? Ponds remain alarmingly low or dry in Montgomery and Chautauqua counties. Wheat looks great though, so we do have that going for us. My father-in-law has begun to simply plan for drought. He drilled 110 acres of wheat last fall to help provide some hay insurance this year. The plan is working well so far.
From: ksq232
04-Mar-24
Hoping desperately to get some decent rain the end of this week!
From: Ben
05-Mar-24
Me too! We're in NE Kansas and things are really getting dry already. The rains we had this winter hit on frozen ground and ran off. The weather man keeps dangling the carrot out there but, we never seem to get the rain. The hay pastures are already looking bleak.
From: ksq232
07-Mar-24
Let it rain!!! Beautiful rain out today.
From: Slate
07-Mar-24
James congratulated. ;-) Happy to hear it
From: ksq232
07-Mar-24
Ended up with a little over an inch at the house and a half inch at the farm, before it cleared off. We’ll take it, but hopefully it’s not done yet.
From: keepemsharp
07-Mar-24
We need to send some to NW Texas.
From: ksq232
07-Mar-24
Just had a little excitement. Thought I was going to see my first Kansas tornado…
From: Kansan
07-Mar-24
I watched and filmed the whole thing from the Caney racetrack. Reed Timmer, and every other storm chaser in the country was in town. I counted over 2 dozen different chase vehicles.
A tornado just came very close to planting itself right on top of Caney. We are very blessed that it did not.
From: Ksgobbler
08-Mar-24
https://youtu.be/vEldn-SegDU?si=2bmJKE43HweEWW07
From: squirrel
13-Mar-24
That was a very impressive fireworks display that God put on for free. Not sure how much we got out of it (3-4"??) but there wasn't much soil showing above the water when the lightning flashes illuminated it. Almost all gone now but we got full ponds and a flowing and flushed out creek out of the deal. No crops in the dirt to benefit but it sure was nice to see all that mud, I'm sure the trees are slurping it up.
From: ksq232
20-Mar-24
Beginning to have the dust bowl effect around here already. Driving across the pasture produces a depressingly large amount of dust. Today makes 653 days since our last 2” rain at our property. It has happened nearby. My brother-in-law’s house got 2.3” on March 7th and they’re 4.5 miles from our place. We got .9” out of the same cloudburst.
From: ksq232
20-Mar-24
From: ksq232
24-Mar-24
Praying we get some moisture today. 5 days ago they were saying we were gonna get big storms and rain, they killed those chances again though.
From: ksq232
26-Mar-24
Longterm forecast looking extremely bleak. We got nothing out of the last two days of rain chances. Sunday it went west of us, yesterday it went east. ‘24 is beginning to look like more of the same. :-/
From: Kansasclipper
26-Mar-24
5 inches of snow here.
From: KsRancher
01-Apr-24
Looking wet out your way. And more on the way
From: Ksgobbler
01-Apr-24
Looks like Caney taking baseball sized hail
From: ksq232
01-Apr-24
Yeah, Caney got some hail, while I was at the gym in fact! Good rain here at the house, I’m guessing a little over two inches, haven’t looked at the gauge since it got dark. Not the same rain over on our property, the neighbor said we were setting at .90” a little over an hour ago. So hoping for 1.5” there at least. We’ll take it gratefully, and hoping for more this spring.
From: crestedbutte
01-Apr-24
Per the dents in that roof…looks like you got atleast golf ball sized. No fun when it gets that big. Hope no one was hurt!
From: ksq232
02-Apr-24
Thanks crested, quite a bit of damage in caney, but no injuries or wrecks that I heard of. And………..the streak is broken at 660+ days, 2.15” at our property!!! Still need more, but VERY thankful for some real run-off.
From: Kansasclipper
20-Apr-24
Good snowfall in NW Kansas this morning.
From: Justhunt
22-Apr-24
Looks to be some rain headed to eastern ks in the next week. Hopefully it won’t have hail and tornadoes included with it.
From: Quailhunter
22-Apr-24
Getting a little crispy down this direction.
From: Kansan
22-Apr-24
Things are liable to get spicy Thursday-Sunday.
From: Ksgobbler
22-Apr-24
Friday looks really interesting. Dryline draped from Manhattan to east of Wichita with mid 60s dewpoints pushed up against it. Alot can change in the coming days.
From: Justhunt
23-Apr-24
The forecasted rain totals have gone up since I posted that screenshot yesterday. It’s not looking good as far as severe storms are concerned unfortunately.
From: Justhunt
23-Apr-24
The forecasted rain totals have gone up since I posted that screenshot yesterday. It’s not looking good as far as severe storms are concerned unfortunately.
From: Ksgobbler
23-Apr-24
Flash drought from last week I had saved on my phone
From: KsRancher
27-Apr-24
Looking like you guys in the SE are getting some rain.
From: sitO
27-Apr-24
Might not have gotten far enough SE for James?
From: Dale06
27-Apr-24
I spent three days in Ness county earlier this week. The wheat crop there is in very dire need of rain. And I planted about 50 cedar trees seven years ago, for wildlife shelter. They grew from being planted at one foot tall to 6+ feet tall. Half of them died in the past several months. It’s damn dry there.
From: Kansasclipper
28-Apr-24
Yep getting dry again out here. Wheat looks good, but needs some rain. We has some snow and rain Jan.-March that got the wheat going but nothing for quite some time now. I planted cedars in 2020 that were 6-8 inches and are now 7 foot. I did water them. I have a shipment of cedars that should be here this week.
From: Ben
28-Apr-24
Here in Miami county where it has been so dry we got 2" Thursday evening and 5 1/2" last night, sure helped the ponds but, it came about right to soak in for pastures and crops.
From: Kansan
28-Apr-24
I planted about 300 cedars along our road in 2020. About half of them have died from drought, and the ones that remain have grown about 6 inches in 3-4 years lol. Not able to water these, though. I have a bunch of oak trees that get all of the TLC.
From: MDW
28-Apr-24
Got water now! 1 1/2" thursday, 1/2 " friday, 5 1/2" last night, with more forecast.
From: sitO
28-Apr-24
Got this pic of the boat ramp at QSR this morning. Couldn't even use it last Spring, water was 4-5' below the bottom of the ramp...10' underwater now...crazy.
From: Kansasclipper
28-Apr-24
Cedar Bluff is down over 20 feet. The water is a 200 plus yards away from the boat ramps I used 20 years ago.
