folks, this is gettin serious
Contributors to this thread:Kansas
From: keepemsharp
10-Jul-18
Park all your vehicles outside and roll the windows down, if you own a convertible put it outside with the top down, if you have any alfalfa lay it down, if you have any roof work to do rip it off today!!!
From: Westksbowhunter
10-Jul-18
Looks like rain on Monday! Wash you car!
From: t-roy
10-Jul-18
Be careful what you guys wish for! ;-)
I was in the same boat (no pun intended) back in early June, here in central Iowa, as you guys are in now. We have since gotten 15”-30” of rain, some places considerably more. A good friend in southern Iowa is still bone dry.
Hope you guys get plenty, but not too much!
From: Thornton
10-Jul-18
You're telling me! I'm a one man mowing operation for 30 yards on my days off and I'm drenched in sweat!
From: MDW
11-Jul-18
I'll go wash my vehicle this morning ! However I still remember June 30 of 2007, over a couple of days we got 22 inches of rain.
From: keepemsharp
11-Jul-18
took the boat out of the garage and rinsed the dust off and parked it outside.
From: writer
12-Jul-18
Rebuilding a deck over bare dirt this weekend. Only have son-in-law here for three days, and can only do mornings because of the heat. Should help, I’d think.
From: ks chas
12-Jul-18
Going camping. just trying to do my part.
From: ksq232
12-Jul-18
We’re camping too, hasn’t worked yet.
From: Westksbowhunter
12-Jul-18
Looks like a good chance for bad storms tomorrow, at least in my neighborhood. Hope it spares my corn, it will be ready in a week.
From: MDW
13-Jul-18
In about 20 minutes yesterday afternoon, we got .65 Welcome, but will pay the price in extreme humidity today ?
From: chief
13-Jul-18
"When it's dry we want it wet, when it's wet we want it dry, when it's hot we want it cold, when it's cold we want it hot, humans are a funny lot, always wanting what is not"
From: Ksgobbler
13-Jul-18
Left my car windows cracked and sun roof open. Thought I had it done. Storm got to 10 miles out and died. I blame it on closing the windows and sun roof when it appeared rain was imminent.
From: z hunter
13-Jul-18
A couple weeks ago, I left an open trench for 3 days..installed conduit and wire, back filled,..rained that night, .80"
New ditch, left it open for 6 days, conduit and wire installed, rv pedastals complete, backfilled and it rained 1.6"..
Have a project i was planning to work on as i type...in back of my truck...its rained .60" since 5pm and still falling..
No complaints here..
From: writer
13-Jul-18
Good for you, Z. Where?
From: z hunter
13-Jul-18
NCK...Meads ranch, lincoln, mitchell, ottawa..cloud, clay, ..all gettin it good..
DoD is Dept of Defense.
From: Westksbowhunter
14-Jul-18
About an inch here last night and more on the way today.
From: z hunter
14-Jul-18
1.4 here,..local reports in the county of up to 5"
From: R.E.D. Ranch
14-Jul-18
Barely an inch east of mulvane. Every time I walk down to my pond I cry a little bit, that thing is so low it's ugly.
From: ksq232
14-Jul-18
Still high and dry in Montgomery county. Maybe tonight??
From: Ksgobbler
14-Jul-18
Yet to get a drop
From: Westksbowhunter
14-Jul-18
Barely an inch is a damn good rain out here.
From: Dmac
14-Jul-18
Kaq232, any rain around Independence ?
From: writer
14-Jul-18
Nada in our part of Larryville.
From: Thornton
15-Jul-18
I was competing in the state FITASC shoot yesterday in west KC and we had to halt the shoot several times due to lightning. Got several showers out of the deal. I had to laugh, a flock of turkeys came out of the woods about 150 yards away and watched all the shooting. The black spot at the tree line is a jake
From: Ksgobbler
15-Jul-18
We had a nice isolated shower drop .4". Looks like the weather pattern is changing for next week.
From: ksq232
15-Jul-18
Dmac, still very dry, missed out again last night.
From: Thornton
15-Jul-18
Butler and Greenwood are getting some nice showers today
From: ksq232
15-Jul-18
You gotta be freakin kidding me, I look at the radar again and rain all around and nothing on us. The last two weeks we’ve had rain north south east and west, and nothing on us. If your getting it, enjoy it, it’s really tough to not be jealous.
From: Ksgobbler
15-Jul-18
Headed out to water the garden.
From: KsRancher
15-Jul-18
For once we are living right. Around our area its one of the best summer's that I can remember for cattle out on grass. Had 2.4 Friday night
From: ksq232
15-Jul-18
Spent 2.5 hours watering fruit trees this evening. That usually does the trick for rain, but doubt it’ll work this time, the umbrella over Montgomery county is made of iron right now.
From: Dmac
16-Jul-18
Law, I drew us a rain turtle on hood of truck ! We should be good now
From: Dmac
16-Jul-18
DSQ, I meant .
From: ksq232
16-Jul-18
Looks like rain finally heading our way, I don't hardly see how it could miss us. Hopefully you folks out by Wichita don't suck it completely dry before it gets here again.
From: ksq232
16-Jul-18
Heavy rain is about to Chautauqua County, keep coming!!
From: ksq232
16-Jul-18
Didn’t even settle the dust. Montgomery county, where storms go to die....
From: Dmac
16-Jul-18
We got to be getting rain this eve in Montgomery county ?
From: ksq232
16-Jul-18
I’m west of Coffeyville, not a drop here. Looks like a small cell east of Independence. But the radar has lied all day long, so who knows??
From: ksq232
17-Jul-18
Looks like a monsoon in central Kansas, will it make to us? Doubt it....
From: Dmac
17-Jul-18
?? Ing good on radar
From: ksq232
17-Jul-18
Coming down good finally!!
From: Catscratch
17-Jul-18
All that rain that has been missing you ksq... has been missing us too. Storm after storm has split and went around us. Very dry until this morning. We got 1.5!
From: Ksgobbler
17-Jul-18
It's almost unbelievable that the huge rain shield that was headed this way died before getting to us.
From: ksq232
17-Jul-18
I’m looking forward to the next big rain that none of us is asking the others if we got any, one of those systems the covers the width of the whole state.
From: Dmac
17-Jul-18
Ksq, I’m glad we got some . Rain turtle do the trick every time ! I’m planning on getting cameras out first weekend in Aug.
From: Catscratch
17-Jul-18
ksgobbler, did you not get any moisture from yesterday or today? It completely missed us yesterday but dumped 1.5 today.
From: ksq232
18-Jul-18
Looks we got another nice shower last night, that makes us over an inch since yesterday morning. We could use some more, but we'll gladly take it!
From: Ksgobbler
19-Jul-18
That was a letdown. Less than .1
From: ksq232
19-Jul-18
Somebody is getting pounded! That’s quite a cell 80 miles north of us.
From: Ksgobbler
19-Jul-18
Those cells brought alot of wind but very little rain. Topeka got hammered and picked up .12. A few miles north of me a roof got torn off a house and the pavement ws dry 15 min later when I got home. Farmer buddy is getting ready to bail corn.
From: ksq232
19-Jul-18
That stinks gobbler!
From: Kansasclipper
19-Jul-18
tea cup sized hail in SW KS.
From: z hunter
19-Jul-18
We picked up a nice 3/4" today.. Beans n milo looking great..dry land corn and sorghum doing well.. Pastures look green.. This afternoons 1st shower..another smaller storm came thru a few hrs after this one
From: Catscratch
20-Jul-18
Rain skipped us again but we got a great show.
From: ksq232
20-Jul-18
Missed us too, it blew up literally less than 4 miles south of us across the line in OK. A small red cell that went right over Sedan, got pretty big once it crossed the state line. Seems like Sedan has been getting a lot of rains lately that we've missed, and we're only 26 miles east.
From: Thornton
21-Jul-18
Little stuff popping up everywhere tonight.
From: ksq232
21-Jul-18
Yet another round split and went around us. Hopefully another wave comes through and treats us a little better.
From: ksq232
21-Jul-18
We’re the blue dot, otherwise known as the tyro desert.
From: Thornton
21-Jul-18
Turned into this
From: Catscratch
21-Jul-18
We actually got .38 last night! Unexpected rain is great! Sorry for you guys that got missed again.
From: ksq232
21-Jul-18
Not a drop here. Congrats scratch!
From: Ksgobbler
21-Jul-18
Wet got 4 little showers each not even enough to wet the concrete.
From: ksq232
21-Jul-18
Looks like monsoon season is still going in NW Kansas! I bet Colby is ahead of Coffeyville in rainfall this year, unbelievable!
From: ksq232
22-Jul-18
I could double my last post, only this time it’s all of western Kansas it looks like. Meanwhile eastern Kansas is still hurting. Once again, unbelievable!
From: ksq232
23-Jul-18
The arid SE Colorado is doing their best rainforest impersonation tonight. I’m sure it will move into the amazon stretch of sw Kansas next. I hope all of you out there are keeping your heads above water. Mind sending a hundredth or two our way?
From: Shawn
24-Jul-18
I wish I could send you some from the Northeast. We got 4"s in an yesterday and it rained steady for almost 2 days. We have several more inches expected in the next two days as well and we were in a drought until last week. I hope you guys get some relief soon!!! Shawn
From: ksq232
24-Jul-18
Yeah I’ve been reading about the rains on the east coast. We supposed to have a pretty good chance this weekend of some significant rain in SEK. We’ll see...
From: Ksgobbler
24-Jul-18
One of the cracks in our yard. My wife got a flip flop stuck in one the other night.
From: ksq232
24-Jul-18
That’s crazy gobbler!
From: writer
25-Jul-18
Always interesting to measure how deep those cracks can be. During the drought 6-7 years ago a buddy out west had them over 20” deep!
From: Ksgobbler
25-Jul-18
They are 8" deep right now.
Article in KVOE about the north lyon county drought. Wonder when ehd will rear its head http://www.kvoe.com/news/item/38820-drought-in-north-lyon-county-early-shipping-of-cattle-among-domino-effects-of-minimal-moisture
From: ksq232
25-Jul-18
Yet another system heading right to us and falling apart. At least they were right about this one and said we had no chance. Meanwhile, NC Kansas about to get another big rain.
From: ksq232
26-Jul-18
Another wave goes over us with dropping anything, gets 5 miles south and let’s loose. Beginning to wonder what’s going on. :/
From: ksq232
26-Jul-18
Flash flood warning.......for Goodland. Goodgrief
From: Ksgobbler
27-Jul-18
You got me looking so I pulled data. Keep in mind rains have been spotty. Goodland was up to a little over 14". Chanute has had 19" and is 6.22" below normal. Emporia is at 13" which is 9" short. If you go just north of emporia they have had 5" and their pastures didnt green up this spring. I was walking my field last night. Sericea is flowering a month ahead of schedule and all the native grasses have seed heads up. The milo I planted for quail while it is headed out the bottoms of the plant are drying out.
From: ksq232
27-Jul-18
You’re right gobbler, while the drought is somewhat wide spread in eastern Kansas, locally it’s much more serious. What makes this really tough in SEK is we went almost four months (Nov-Feb) this winter without any significant rainfall. People don’t notice it as much then because everything is dormant, but we went into spring really dry.
From: ksq232
28-Jul-18
In NE OK for a family reunion, it has been pouring down here for 2 hours. Sun shining back home though, yippeee!!! I despise weatherman, or weather persons, sorry for not being politically correct. So much for their forecasted 4” this weekend, losers.
From: ksq232
29-Jul-18
What’s this wet stuff??? Hallelujah!
From: writer
29-Jul-18
Ksq- a lot of Kansas went seven months with less than 1” of moisture. Glad you’re getting it. This is at least the fourth consecutive year many places have had more summer moisture than spring or winter. Sure would like to hunt in the snow this season.
From: Catscratch
29-Jul-18
Congrats guys! We got barely over an inch last night but it is very much appreciated!
I'm way below normal right now (compared to our 10yr average... which has been mostly drought).
From: Ksgobbler
29-Jul-18
We got 1.25" in the last 24 hours. Neighbor had the pond in the pasture with his cattle go dry and has been hauling water to them. He is moving them today.
From: ksq232
29-Jul-18
Writer, are you talking about that white stuff we’ve told our kiddos about? If it weren’t for a couple Colorado ski trips, they would have only seen real snow in the movies!
I’m not sure what we got, but I’m guessing it was around an inch. Coffeyville, less than 15 miles away from us got almost 3”.
From: Matte
29-Jul-18
Is it true fawns born in drought years develop 25% less antler and body size than fawns born in wet years. I heard this on a 1970s era Mule Deer study.
From: Ksgobbler
29-Jul-18
On a psositive note the plums are ripe and we have been out picking.
From: Matte
29-Jul-18
We didn't have any Sandhills this year at all.
From: ksq232
29-Jul-18
Another big system in western Kansas, PLEASE send it this was again!!
From: Dmac
30-Jul-18
Looks like we getting some rain KSQ
From: Ksgobbler
30-Jul-18
Looked like we were going to get a nice soaking but as usual it fizzled out and we got a quarter inch.
From: ksq232
30-Jul-18
Dmac, we have gotten some good rain the last couple of days. Gobbler, I feel for you because it looked like you were going to get some good rain too.
From: Ksgobbler
30-Jul-18
I hope it tastes as good as it looks.
From: ksq232
05-Aug-18
We are hoping to get some more rain tomorrow. It’s simply amazing that NW Kansas is getting yet another rain right now. I feel for you guys in NE kansas.
From: z hunter
07-Aug-18
Yet again..its wonderful
From: Ksgobbler
12-Aug-18
Weve been placed on water restrictions so no more watering the garden. The Neosho is lowwwwww
From: ksq232
13-Aug-18
Possible reports of ehd beginning to rumble around in NEK. Here in SEK a little rain, mostly shooting straight up central Kansas just like all year.
From: ksq232
13-Aug-18
75 degrees, a falling barometer, cloud cover, and 94% humidity, how the heck is it not raining???
From: Ksgobbler
13-Aug-18
I went to feed the fish at 730 and was still kicking up dust in the sxs. It sprinkled about 8.
From: Ksgobbler
14-Aug-18
Dumped out .25 this morning
From: BODYMAN
14-Aug-18
gobbler where are you at in se kansas we hunt so of sedan i thought there was quite abit of rain there latley
From: Gstro
14-Aug-18
2.60 so far in salina
From: Ksgobbler
14-Aug-18
Coffey county in what has been dubbed the rain bermuda triangle.
From: ksq232
14-Aug-18
No rain overnight on us, rain everywhere on the radar except over us with nothing coming our way. Typical...
From: Dmac
14-Aug-18
Looks like it may make it tonight and I’m the am ? I’m. Onsidering driving up to Montgomery county and getting cameras out . Curious how everyone’s corn and beans are ?
From: Ksgobbler
14-Aug-18
Depends one family on I know on facebook posted a pic that had one scragly ear and they had to search for it. A buddy got a isolated timely rain on his corn and his ears look like something out of Iowa. Alot of the corn is being cut for silage or bailed locally.
From: ksq232
14-Aug-18
Dmac, beans looking pretty good. Corn is varied, it was so hot back in May it stressed it some, along with a couple dry spells the last couple of months. Montgomery county is tough to figure, northern Montgomery county is getting tons of rain as I type this, but southern, not so much. The rain has been more localized this summer than I’ve ever seen.
From: Catscratch
14-Aug-18
We got .2 inch yesterday and small shower this morning. But... it's been cool and cloudy which is very different than most Augusts! So... while we are still way behind on rain for the yr things don't look too bad. Pastures are maybe the greenest I've ever seen them in August. It's kind of weird. For you guys that it's skipping over completely I hope you end up with a couple of gully washers for sure. It would be nice to fill the ponds before winter hit.
From: BODYMAN
15-Aug-18
Well it showed 4" in southeast this morning did it show up ?
From: ksq232
15-Aug-18
We got an inch and and half at our house, not sure what our property got.
From: Ksgobbler
15-Aug-18
.75" here
From: NCK
15-Aug-18
From: BODYMAN
16-Aug-18
i would never had thought it had been that dry up there by watching weather down here
From: BODYMAN
16-Aug-18
Bet you get some in SE today its heading your way
From: Ksgobbler
16-Aug-18
It torrential rain 2 miles north of us with another storm 5 miles east. Sun is out here. Weve gotten nothing.
From: Thornton
17-Aug-18
We've gotten several storms today. Best August I've ever had in 15 years of my mowing business.
From: Ksgobbler
18-Aug-18
Drove to Hutch and back today. From my observation more corn was out than was still standing. Most had the usual small strip for the adjuster. Hoping to get rain tomorrow. Buddy cut his thursday. Moisture was 13%
From: ksq232
19-Aug-18
We’re getting absolutely dumped on right now, hopefully it makes it north to you guys still hurting.
From: Dmac
19-Aug-18
Tell me about it KSQ , I had trailer loaded with 4 wheeler, bale blind , stands and cameras. planned on leaving out early this am . I take the good with the bad , maybe I get up that way during the week .
From: Ksgobbler
19-Aug-18
We got 1.6"
From: Kansan
20-Aug-18
I don't know how much we got in Manhattan, but it rained heavily all day yesterday, was off and on all night, and poured again this morning, quite a bit of flooding in the ditches. More rain in the forecast for Thursday.
From: keepemsharp
20-Aug-18
PT county, last two days two and a half inches, bring it on.
From: Westksbowhunter
20-Aug-18
3.25 here Saturday then some more yesterday. Got more coming on Wednesday and Thursday. Had a couple inches a week ago today. I have never seen this much moisture in all the years I have lived out west. Hope we don't get it all now then have dry spell in October when we really need it.
From: ksq232
23-Aug-18
Looks you guys in NEK are getting a good soaking this morning!
From: Ksgobbler
23-Aug-18
1.75 so far. Farmers are complaining now cause their corn is laying over but its too muddy to cut. Cant make everyone happy
From: Ksgobbler
30-Aug-18
I got 2.5" of rain in 90 minutes this morning with more on the way.
From: Ksgobbler
30-Aug-18
6" total today. Pond is full and overflowing.
From: ksq232
30-Aug-18
Nice gobbler!
From: Habitat for Wildlife
01-Sep-18
6" plus at the farm in less than 3 days. All after planting 5 acres of a clover blend. LOl!
From: keepemsharp
03-Sep-18
Last night ALL NIGHT, don't know how much, the gauge only goes to 7".
From: Kansan
03-Sep-18
Manhattan got over 9 & 1/2 inches of rain last night. Lots of the town had significant flooding. They had to do 60+ water rescues today, and many homes/vehicles were flooded. At least 300 people were displaced from their homes. My uncle owns a doublewide in Redbud Estates that I used to stay in (for his kids/ other family who were students at K-State) and the high water mark was over 3 feet, washed away almost all of the skirting. The trailer park just looks like a giant mud flat. Looks like there is a lot more rain to come this week.
From: Ben
03-Sep-18
Dave, You started this, you need to slow it down now!
From: writer
04-Sep-18
KDWPT headquarters in Pratt got it.
From: keepemsharp
04-Sep-18
OK folks lets end it here fini
From: Kansan
04-Sep-18
Send it southeast! The ponds on the home farm in Chautauqua county are still 8' low.
From: t-roy
05-Sep-18
I WARNED you guys at the beginning of this thread!
From: Ksgobbler
05-Sep-18
Mother nature is fickle. 2.5" here so far. I pulled trail cams along the creek so I wouldnt lose them.
From: Ironbow
05-Sep-18
I had to mow my dried up pond a few weeks ago. Still dry. We could use a little bit of that rain. Feel sorry for all the folks dealing with the flooding. Not fun.
From: NCK
06-Sep-18
From: Thornton
06-Sep-18
Last summer when I worked in KC it seemed like that area was getting all the rain.
From: MDW
07-Sep-18
my gauge only hold's 5" and it's overflowing today.
From: ksq232
22-Sep-18
Sounds a little strange after the deluge a few weeks ago, but I’ve had food plots in here in SEK for almost two weeks and they haven’t germinated yet. All the rain yesterday missed us completely again.
From: Bodyman
22-Sep-18
I thought we were getting a bunch today headed your way but looks like it's gonna stay north of tulsa. How dry is it no. of sedan
From: Bodyman
22-Sep-18
Sorry I meant south
From: ksq232
22-Sep-18
The subsoil moisture is good I would bet, it's just getting a little dry on top. It would be really nice to have a .5-1" rain. Winter rye and clover are pretty resilient, so I'm not too worried yet. Rain is in the "forecast" the end of next week.
From: ksq232
25-Sep-18
Well getting back in the same boat again in SEK. The latest rains have missed us. I worked our last plot last night and was surprised how little subsoil moisture there was. Nothing much in the forecast except an increasingly pitiful chance of rain tonight.
From: ksq232
26-Sep-18
Missed another nice rain this afternoon, stayed south of us.
From: ksq232
04-Oct-18
Rain! Hallelujah!!
From: sitO
08-Oct-18
Okay...
It's officially getting serious now!
From: sitO
08-Oct-18
Past 24hrs, lots of my spots are "in the red"
From: Ksgobbler
08-Oct-18
Weve had 5.5" since saturday. Rain gauge was down friday but people around got 1.5" so lets call it 7". Cottonwood at plymouth set to have the 3rd highest crest on record. Silver lining is the creek here will be up for a month. If it doesnt get too high it will force any deer trapped on this side to walk by me. Downside lots of beans and corn will be lost between Cottonwood falls and John Redmond. Also Flint Hills NWR will have alot of leevees for their marshes blow out.
From: Thornton
08-Oct-18
A couple years ago I had some nice bucks on cameras when the lake flooded. One buck was even crossing some water to check his scrape on an island. A week later we were hunting wood ducks in that exact spot in flooded timber
From: Ben
08-Oct-18
We got 8 3/4" in the last two days. They are calling for more heavy rain tomorrow here outside of Paola
From: ksq232
08-Oct-18
The biggest rains continue to miss us in Montgomery county. This time I’m kind of glad. We have received about 3” the last 5 days.
From: Kansan
08-Oct-18
Send it to Montgomery/ Chautauqua counties, ponds are still low!
From: Catscratch
09-Oct-18
As of this morning we've gotten 7" out of this system. It will be nice to have all the ponds full and the creeks flowing going into winter for a change!
From: TwoDogs@work
09-Oct-18
My total South of Cottonwood Falls as of this morning is 7.5". The South Fork of the Cottonwood River is across the county road just SE of my place. The corn crop was hurt bad by dry weather and the soybeans do not need flood water. Hopefully, it shuts off for while.
From: Ksgobbler
09-Oct-18
Neosho at Americus set to have the 2nd highest crest on record.
From: sitO
09-Oct-18
Not good! I've got a spot right there by Americus, with both sides of the river...won't be going there for awhile I reckon.
From: Matte
09-Oct-18
If any of you guys have free time during these floods it might be a good time to spot and stalk. Alot of deer will be displaced from their normal bedding and feeding routines. Scout from a high point like around Marion or Kanopolis and you never know what might happen. Deer seem to move more during floods. Good luck!
From: Thornton
09-Oct-18
Fall River on the west side of Eureka. This is usually a riffle you can wade across 30 feet below the bridge
From: Westksbowhunter
09-Oct-18
Well western KS is flooded, believe it or not. Highways closed. Going to be a week or so before I can even get to any of my hunting spots, that is if it quits raining. More in the forecast Thursday and Friday. Some roads won't be driveable for weeks.
From: Ben
09-Oct-18
We are now up to 11 1/2" in just less than 4 days with more rain forecast tonight. Dave, call it off for a while at least.
From: Habitat for Wildlife
09-Oct-18
Ben,
This is really something! Stay safe.
From: Matte
09-Oct-18
These are ones I remember most 1998, 2008 and now 2018.
From: Westksbowhunter
09-Oct-18
We are right at eleven inches since Friday. We don't get that much in a year sometimes. Rain again Friday and Saturday then snow on Sunday.
From: Bodyman
09-Oct-18
Damn global wetness
From: keepemsharp
09-Oct-18
A few weeks ago we had 5 and a half till the gauge ran over, two days later dumped two more. Yesterday dumped four and 2 and a half more in today. I'm callin it OFFFFFFFF>
From: ksq232
09-Oct-18
It’s snowing in Colby right now???
From: MDW
14-Oct-18
About dang time Dave! I already have 8 inches this month of October. I'm starting to grow webbing between my toes.
