The grass is burning and I'm getting tired of watering everything. No rain expected until mid next week ....... Maybe.

Not looking good that's for sure, after a nice wet start to the year. Been watering the garden and looks like ill be watering for a spell.

About the only thing in the lawns that need mowing are the weeds

We had a front or something come through about a week or so ago and they were calling for 3-5” over the three days it was supposed to be here. It all depended if a cloud hit your area or not. The place I’m trapping probably got close to 3”. My house and the place I hunt got .7” What’s worse is we planted our dove fields in anticipation of the rain. We need it bad! It was looking good for this weekend, now those chances have dropped to 20-30%. Just hoping the next chance we get that a cloud parks over us for a little bit.

Yep, dryer than a popcorn fart here. Ground is cracked. Didn't bother planting the garden this week. My ground is a mix of gravel,sand and a little dirt. Would require too much watering from my well. I'm going to wait a week and see what the forecast brings

Going on three weeks with no rain here. And humidity down in the 30-40% range. No rain in the forecast either.

Been awful dry here...watering ever day to keep the flowers going. The garden gets watered every 2 days...

On a positive note,

Dry weather makes great conditions for Wild turkey poult production !!!

w

I think this is the driest May on record in our part of the state.

Been no rain for 3 weeks, next chance is June 13.

It has not rained here since 5/20/2023 and there's no rain forecast through at least June 8th. It's supposed to be over 90F by Thursday.

At least all the hay, including ours has been cut an baled, or will be.

Keith

It's getting so dry here that I seen two trees fighting over my dog.....

There was 1.7 inches of rain here in western Pa.in May. But that was hit or miss. Normal rainfall is 3.4” for the month.

Same here as Kyle stated. With parts of Northern ILL and IA showing a lot of dryness, the corn market rallied about 30 cents, even with very low exports so now we are in a weather market for corn. Beans have dropped nearly one dollar the last weeks as the crop i Brazil was huge and China is buying their cheaper beans. They can grow beans for about $30 per ton less then we can or close to a dollar a bushel less.
Really tough to keep the set plants hydrated.
Note the link below showing the drought monitor for May 25, 2023. If you locate Lake Winnebago in WI and look to the right you will see a small yellow dot. Our home is in that area!
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap.aspx

Bryce

No rain since 5/15 18 9/10 for the year but in Illinois farm country you are always 2 weeks from a drought

A bunch of locations in eastern Pennsylvania are about to record their driest May on record; Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Reading and Williamsport.

Allentown, Altoona, Scranton and State College are all recording their second driest May on record.

We are cutting hay, but need rain for a second crop.

Grass is burning off here in Pa….Never seen that in May.

We’re dry. Rotary hoes have been out. We hoed a couple hundred acres of beans ourselves.

The wife and I spent the last 4 days in Northeast Pa (bradford county)
her brother was putting up bailage for his dairy cows and he
didn't know if he was going to have enough hay if they didn't get
some rain.

I feel for you all in drought conditions. What you describe is nothing new in my part of the world 3 weeks without any measurable amount of rain is a normal thing here.

I hope you get some rain soon.

14.5 drops today at my cabin and a mile south got 1/2".
Dang!

Dry here too in Southern NY State...Lawns burnt like it was July! We had less than 1" of rain in May.

The ground is soaking up the moisture as quickly as it falls no major runoff this year even with the amount of snowfall we had, the creeks have not come up like most years. We did pull about 3/4 of an inch last week just enough to keep things green for a while. We will take what we get but don’t need the hail.

Rain was predicted for here last night, but it all went south of us. Some places got between 2-3 inches.

We got a good tasting yesterday afternoon. The skys got real dark and the wind picked up but still no rain. Guess I'll need to water my new trees again today.

There is just no moisture in the air in the northern tier of states or regions. I noticed today that the air is a bit more humid so maybe over the next week or so we can build enough moisture in the air to have some fall out. Typically when we get upper 80s to 90 this time of year we have T-storms as a result. Not this time however. With the wind we are having with the cloudless sky and high temps evaporation is really drying up my rat sloughs. Looks like another short rat population in the making already.

Bryce

Storms went just west of me. Latter I listen to the thunder south of me but only a few drops..guess I'll get out and water the garden...

Got an inch last night.
Thank you Lord.

We had a cloud build up, got dark, some thunder and a couple lightning flashes and not a drop. Just not enough moisture in the air. Supposed to do the same thing today but mostly 50-100 miles west of us.

Bryce

Driving home I saw that cloud bank/anvil head forming. Heard thunder, thought we'd get some rain. Stayed west of Winnebago. 10 day forecast here has it cooling some next week, but still dry as a popcorn fart for here.