No Rain, Again!

[Wayne SW/MO]

I don't know how many times this year we have had a good looking storm move towards this area, Taney county, and then just dissipate. The radar this morning showed a good storm about to move into our area and then it simply fell apart.

This whole spring has seen one storm after another go north of us, some south and others fall apart when it seems they can't miss. I think Ozark, Howell, etc are in the same boat.

My gauge has shown about 1/2" of rain since the end of April.

[kevthebassman]

Gonna make for an interesting 4th of July, for sure.

If any of you fellas have been thinking about clearing brush away from your homes and outbuildings, you've got about a week left.

[Feathers and Fins]

Living through the Cali wildfires many times and knowing how dry things are here I would hate to think of what will happen if we get a strong wind and any kind of fire. Started, conditions are right for a massive fire in the Ozarks and with all the building that went on since the last major fire I fear property loss will be high. I hope it doesnt happen but the terrain is similar to Cali and there is a lot of dry fuel on the ground.

[skeeter]

Same lack of rain, maybe even worse, in S. Stone Co.

Like Wayne, I've about lost count of how many rainstorms have detoured around us or fallen completely apart before reaching us. It's like there is some invisible wall in the sky. I'm recording only 11.52 inches of precip. for the year so far and looking at on-line records of other surrounding CWOP weather stations shows the same pattern. 100 degree temps this week is only gonna' make things worse !

We may be headed from record high Lake levels last year to very low levels this year if this drought keeps up and NOAA's long range outlook is for more of the same.

Hope people use common sense with fireworks and the comment about clearing brush away from your homes is an extremely good idea with the Fourth coming up. Another suggestion would be to have your hoses ready to go. Cedars and even the hardwoods are only needing one spark. We trimmed some hardwoods back last week and despite green leaves, they burned like crazy with no problem getting them started.

[Quillback]

100 predicted for NWA today, last year it didn't hit 100 until July 7. This may be an even hotter and drier summer than last year. I think I'll start cutting down the oaks and replace them with cactus.

[Feathers and Fins]

100 predicted for NWA today, last year it didn't hit 100 until July 7. This may be an even hotter and drier summer than last year. I think I'll start cutting down the oaks and replace them with cactus.

Better check with the ACC they will want their money for it lol

[Wayne SW/MO]

Unfortunately I live in amongst some old oaks and a cedar that is about 50'. I can only hope that people use good sense, or maybe I should say better than in the past.

Many years ago we cleared oak timber for a home site and when a green oak does catch fire it sounds and looks like a blowtorch,

[Feathers and Fins]

Wayne one thing that saved some houses in CA was people put sprinkler systems on their roofs. Home Made pvc pipe designed to set on the peak of the roof and they turned them on when a fire was near. I saw houses that survived when the ones around them were gone. Some of them also used it durring the peak of the afternoon to help cool the houses ( dont know if it saved them money or not ) and as somone who deals with roofs daily not sure I would say do it for cooling.