Posted by Billy NY on June 01, 2008 at 09:33:19 from (205.188.117.74):
In Reply to: i swear posted by old on May 31, 2008 at 21:19:03:
You're in the same rut we were in '03-'06, maybe even '02, the amount of and frequency of rain was quite a bit more in those years than '07 and so far this year.
I've mentioned this before, I've noticed a distinct pattern, northern air is always pushing the southern tropical air out seems to be more prevalent. We are having dry spells of 2 weeks + or -, the soils have dried out quite a bit in these last 2 years at the same time of year when in those other years things were still wet. It seems most of the rains are to the west and we get the broken up storms, more isolated rains etc. I've also noticed that when the humid air rolls in, it does not always end with violent thunderstorms, in those other years it would, but many times with no relief except cool rain, humid air comes right back. Lately the northern drier air seems to win and has seemed to push the humid tropical air out, without incident. We just had our 1st t-storm of the year yesterday, dry for 2 weeks prior, needed it. In my opinion, it's been as close to perfect weather in the last 2 years in the spring/summer as it can get.
The hay grasses in the field next to my house are not nearly as tall as in those rainy years.
One thing is for sure, older conventional haying methods don't give you enough time in that kind of weather, anything you can change to reduce dry time is key to it.
I'll also bet the weather patterns will change again.
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