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No, not the temp this morning (which was 47); The Penobscot River is at an all time low for this date. Records go back 107 years.. I keep track of stuff like this. The little triangles are the long term averages for the dates. Here's the link:
It looks like a dry year is coming up. The red dots at the gauging stations indicate low flows.
Meanwhile, the clear night tonight should be a great one for the Northern Lights. They don't capitalize "rainy day", but they capitalize "Northern Lights". I guess that's because they are so impressive. I'm going to watch from my dock which I expect to get into the lake today.
It's dry down here in RI, too. Small stream down back of our property is dry. I thought it was due to the trees leafing out and sucking up water, but I could be wrong. It's a far cry from March when this state had all that flooding! We were not flooded out, but I was limited in where I could travel because of it. Had some terrific "summery" downpours here the last few nights, but the vegetation just takes it all up. DW wants to keep the windows closed at night (yow!) because she thinks the smell is "damp and dank" in her words. I'd rather cool it off in here!
Looked up Soil Moisture on NOAA website and it shows the East Coast as being way below average rainfall. I got curious while planting, the dirt was damp a coupla inches down but dust dry below that.
Couldn't figure out why new plants kept "Passing Out" in the afternoons.
If we have a dry summer, my market garden will essentially curl up and die. I could likely keep water on enough of the crops to fill my larder, but both time and concern over "drinking the well dry" would prevent me from irrigating the entire thing.
If we have a dry summer, my market garden will essentially curl up and die. I could likely keep water on enough of the crops to fill my larder, but both time and concern over "drinking the well dry" would prevent me from irrigating the entire thing.
I wish I could send you water as needed. I have plenty. When the well was drilled here they could only pump it down to 10 feet using a fire pump. It's 300 feet deep. The lowest I have ever seen it was in 2005 when it dropped to 8 feet below the surface level. I watered an 80' x 60' garden from it for years. No problem. It's going to rain tomorrow.
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