Snow,Fog and Overcast!!

[sw]

we even had some really loud thunder last night. The last few years that has us scared to death because of the lightning and the dry conditions but that was enjoyable to hear. It even rained last night and we had to feed with the tractor because it is muddy enough that we can't get around very good with the pickups. Redneck, you betcha. Sat at the mailbox waiting for the school bus and decided that I was wasting time just sitting there so I introduced a few gophers and a porcupine to some lead, I'm sure the new bus driver was wondering when he pulled up and a rifle was sticking out of the truck window!!!

[James]

I was wondering you were talking about mud and thunder, what is that it has been so long my memory has failed me, sure wish you would send some of that this way could really use the moisture.

[Hanta Yo]

James,

Have you people out there in Nebraska country been really hurting?? When we first moved out here in the "Musselshell" we had rain, and rain, and rain. We baled hay out of the dryland pastures - enough to feed all the cows! Later on we purchased irrigated ground because the rains stopped, so did the snows so we couldn't bale enough hay (off the dryland) to feed the cows. Time went on and because of the drought our irrigated land couldn't produce enough hay to feed the cows!!! We are in very tough shape, too, and now we are getting some moisture and I am running circles around the rain dances LOL. Like sw said, there is something about having FOG and 90 days later you should expect some type of moisture. Believe it or not, we have documentation this is true!! I pray for you guys because we are still deep in drought and so far there is nothing the weather guys can say to make it better. I'll take any drop of rain, any flake of snow, ANYTHING just to start digging our drought out of its hole. Anyway, James, I like your name, my son has the same.

[James]

yes it's not been good here as I keep increasing hay ground and and just get enough hay to get the cows by along with wheat straw for filler the pastures are the same as I keep dropping numbers and looking for more grass to graze the cows on. Yes I keep praying we had real heavy fog the first part of January very unusal for here so we should be getting close to getting some moisture if it holds, forecasting moisture the rest of this week but 50% of not getting it either hope you have a great day.

[ranchwife]

went to bozeman yesterday and it rained almost the entire time and rained all the way home and awoke this morning to a nice winter squall!! outta make the roads a real pleasure to drive this morning anyway, am still not complaining about the moisture!! maybe i will get to plant that garden afterall!!

[Faster horses]

After it was so dry in 1992 in Western Montana, I swore I would never cuss mud again...and I don't.

Our grandson is 9 years old, and he knows all about drought. When he was about 6 I said to him, "Let's go outside and do a rain dance."
His reply was, "NAH, I tried those rain dances, they don't work."

Goes to show, he'd been in on it at some time!!

We could get 11 inches of snow by tomorrow night. You know what? We hope we do, even with calving starting for us. The snow is no needed and so necessary. Now the wind we could do without...

How about you, rancher? Are you forecast to get some heavy snow?
I hope we all get some good moisture and it continues to keep us in wet weather.

[Nicky]

Very dry here in NE Oregon too. Had one snow in Dec, and that was about it. Had a wet fall though, and got 7/10' of an inch of rain yesterday It's supposed to do it through sunday. Stock ponds are half full to empty...not good. However the guy we lease some rangeground from had a NRCS guy come out last week and do a soil moisture probe. Dry the first six inches then wet down to 30 inches. Must've been from the fall moisture. So maybe we'll have grass. Good luck to everyone hope you get lot's of snow and or rain.

[Chuckie]

i shouldn't have told rancher about the rains we got last year: all the snow/rain etc. went all the way around us this trip (..and last trip, and the one before, i think). at any rate, saw a guy plowing stalks today on the way home--in March??!!?

i just hope the people west of us get some--they are REALLY hurting; we did good enough last year, let's get some grass out in the sandhills. it really does affect more than just the particular region at the particular time. heard a blurb on NPR today that noted seattle is already putting water conservation practices in place--SEATTLE, no less..