this lack of rain is deeply unnerving

[edenfalling]

Will It Rain?: The driest March to June on record

This fakeout just happened again -- a beautiful north-south line of thunderstorms approached from the west, and right as it hit Ithaca, it thinned and split with the gap precisely over the city. I can see blue sky out my kitchen windows and the scattered raindrop splotches on my back porch are already almost dry.

I mean, a thunderstorm is not the kind of rain we need anyway, but at least it would have been SOMETHING. But nope. No rain for you!

Ithaca is over 6.5 inches of rain short for the year so far, the whole region has passed from 'abnormally dry' into 'moderate drought,' and this is really getting distressing. :(

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[edenfalling]

We may get some thunderstorms in the next week! But even so, that's not the kind of rain we need -- the soil is so dry by now that a brief, hard rain will just run off instead of soaking in. What we need is two or three days of solid light-to-moderate rain. Unfortunately, that is not the kind of rain July and August usually bring: American summers breed thunderstorms, not gentle soaks.