Rick Shields Ag Weather 3-12-10

Some folks got nearly an inch of rain Thursday evening as winds rotating around a slow moving low pressure system in Iowa pushed moisture up from the south.  Monitors in Lawton and Hartford measured around eight tenths of an inch of rain with lesser amounts further east.

Our normal temperatures range today is between 45 and 26 degrees.  We’ll stay way above that for the next week with daily readings well over fifty.

The latest round of rains prompted a flood advisory along small streams.  Stay alert the next several days as more periods of wet weather are due.  However, by Sunday we should begin to see drier air take charge as the low to our west finally heads southeast.  After it does sunny skies will be the rule next week which should, along with some help from wind, dry out soggy topsoil.

I put out a plastic rain gauge today albeit after the rain had passed.  It’s probably too early for plastic rain gauges which tend not to tolerate freezing weather of which we know there is more to come.  But I did it anyway partly to defy the calendar and partly in some wide-eyed hope we’ve turned the corner into springtime.

Some of us never learn.