It's so dry here

[LostintheOzone]

I just saw a snake drinking from my soaker hose.

Yesterday I went out to pick my ripe plumbs and they were gone. Just plain vanished in a matter of days. I ask my neighbor if he saw anything unusual (he can see my orchard from his living room) and he said the squirrels got them. Squirrels? I've had that orchard for 20 years and always got a good crop of plumbs. Then it hit me. They don't have enough water so they ate my plumbs. They won't come near my house because of my dog. She's killed some slow one's already.

I think we have been without measurable rain for about 70 days. It's setting some records for sure. Could end up being the driest summer on record here in the Puget Sound area.

Any weather anomalies where you are?

 

[bigwheelzip]

Had a late freeze in the spring that devastated the area's peach crop, but since then, it seems fairly normal in the SC upstate.

We were driving back east from a visit to your state and were amazed at the miles of dead standing conifer trees there and in Idaho. I think someone said they were killed by a beetle. It looked disastrous.

To bad about the Plums. I was never much of a Plum fan until I tasted my friends Plum Pie (Zwetschgenwähe). Delicious.

Plum Pie (Zwetschgenwahe)

Edit: If you like fruit pies like that, which are only mildly sweet, the other pie my friend made which was also delicious was Rhubarb (Rhabarberwähe). She made one or the other pie every day for lunch.
Rhubarb Pie (Rhabarberwahe)

 

[soFlaNative]

I'll skip mention of So. Texas, I think that's been covered.
Picked up about 10 inches of rain at the homefront the past few days,
don't get socked in to this extent very often.

 

[LVSteve]

We had a 17 day stretch of temperatures of 110° F or more. Never seen that before in 20 years of living in Vegas. I've also lived through two 100 year floods in that period.

 

[johngalt]

The last several summers have been cold and rainy in northern Wisconsin. I guess this August it has only occasionally made it into the 70s.

 

[misswired]

I loose peaches, plums, apples, grapes,chestnuts and pears.
The muscadines and Japanese persimmons seem immune.
Here is sawtooth oak acorns that fell today ...that's a subtle sign of fall
Is around the corner.

 

[wingriderz]

We had a lonhlg drought in spring but very wet summer

 

[THE PILGRIM]

For the first time in about 10 years -
All of NM is out of drought!

 

[LostintheOzone]

For the first time in about 10 years -
All of NM is out of drought!

We're spending some time in NM in Oct. That's good to hear.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

We're spending some time in NM in Oct. That's good to hear.

In recent years national forests and other rec areas have been closed because of drought conditions.

 

[427mach1]

What part of WA are you in, LostintheOzone? I grew up in Spokane, not as dry as the Tri-Cities but dry none the less.

 

[mtgianni]

Same lack of moisture in MT that you have in WA. With the fires going on, snow can't get here soon enough.

 

[LostintheOzone]

What part of WA are you in, LostintheOzone? I grew up in Spokane, not as dry as the Tri-Cities but dry none the less.

Camano Island.

It's supposed to rain here every now and then.

 

[Warren Sear]

It's so dry here....
I saw a fire hydrant running after a dog.