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Most of the rain past 24h missed me to the east and west, but newly planted plots did get 0.47in of slow soaking rain yesterday evening. Looking at the radar, some places may have actually gotten TOO much. That happened to me last year... 13inches the week after I planted and about half my planted acres drowned.

I'll be thrilled if I pick up another 1.5in today, tomorrow, and Tuesday.
 
My place fell between the cracks. Literally two miles to my east got 2". Two miles to my west got 2". I got 0.24". But at least I'm not like the I-40/Hwy 64 interchange near Dickson. I drove through blinding rain in that location yesterday afternoon. Checked the radar and they got 5.75"! Ouch.
 
Is there a way to see how much rain an area gets without a rain gauge? My property is 15 miles (as a crow flies) away from the house. The way these rain showers have been one place was getting hammered while 1/2 mile away everything was dry. Not sure what the seed I planted Saturday morning got.
 
BSK said:
My place fell between the cracks. Literally two miles to my east got 2". Two miles to my west got 2". I got 0.24". But at least I'm not like the I-40/Hwy 64 interchange near Dickson. I drove through blinding rain in that location yesterday afternoon. Checked the radar and they got 5.75"! Ouch.
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Drove thru it myself, had no idea it was THAT much rain.
 
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TRIGGER said:
Is there a way to see how much rain an area gets without a rain gauge? My property is 15 miles (as a crow flies) away from the house. The way these rain showers have been one place was getting hammered while 1/2 mile away everything was dry. Not sure what the seed I planted Saturday morning got.
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24 hour rainfall 6am Sunday to 6am Monday:
 

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TRIGGER said:
Is there a way to see how much rain an area gets without a rain gauge? My property is 15 miles (as a crow flies) away from the house. The way these rain showers have been one place was getting hammered while 1/2 mile away everything was dry. Not sure what the seed I planted Saturday morning got.
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Sign up for a Farm Logs account. On free version you are allowed to pick one field to monitor. Once setup you'll receive an email every 24 hrs during rain event
 
No more for me yesterday or last night... sure hoping I catch one today.

If it doesn't rain again next weekend, the half inch I got Saturday is just enough for seed to germinate then die without another rain event.
 
TRIGGER said:
Is that an app?
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Yes, it's a "by invitation only" app that I have access to. You can also use the NOAA website, which is my usual go to site for all things weather. The app I use simply takes the information from NOAA and makes maps out of it, and I find it more user friendly. Here's NOAA's site for rainfall:

https://water.weather.gov/precip/
 
Not sure for me but I planted a week ago Saturday and got a nice heavy drizzle on Monday, and some more on Tues. My plot was already sprouting last Thurs and has really took off this weekend. We probably got an inch or more between Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
 
TRIGGER said:
Is there a way to see how much rain an area gets without a rain gauge? My property is 15 miles (as a crow flies) away from the house. The way these rain showers have been one place was getting hammered while 1/2 mile away everything was dry. Not sure what the seed I planted Saturday morning got.
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Use this site:

https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours
You can choose 72, 48, or 24 hour rainfall. You can zoom right down to an individual house and click on the spot and get a rainfall amount. I've found the numbers to be shockingly accurate. Much more accurate than any other site/source I've used in the past.
 
megalomaniac said:
No more for me yesterday or last night... sure hoping I catch one today.

If it doesn't rain again next weekend, the half inch I got Saturday is just enough for seed to germinate then die without another rain event.
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That's why I'm worried about planting this week. Forecast rainfall for next weekend is only so-so, and GFS is looking dry for the next 10 days afterwards. Decisions, decisions...
 
Bone dry as of 8am Saturday. Water was still rising when this pic snapped less than 12 hours later. We received over 2" in less than a couple hours.
 

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BSK said:
Use this site:

https://www.iweathernet.com/total-rainfall-map-24-hours-to-72-hours
You can choose 72, 48, or 24 hour rainfall. You can zoom right down to an individual house and click on the spot and get a rainfall amount. I've found the numbers to be shockingly accurate. Much more accurate than any other site/source I've used in the past.
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That's awesome. I was close when I said 1". That shows we got 1.14" the last 72 hours at my house. 1.65" at my other property 25 miles away. I knew we had gotten more there. Going to download that app.
 
rem270 said:
That's awesome. I was close when I said 1". That shows we got 1.14" the last 72 hours at my house. 1.65" at my other property 25 miles away. I knew we had gotten more there. Going to download that app.
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I forgot who posted that back a couple of months ago, but I now use it every day. I've only once seen it off by more than 0.20"
 
We got 2" Saturday right after drilling 9 acres. It was a flood. When that was over, finished about another 11 acres Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Supposedly got almost another inch Sunday afternoon. Time will tell if our herbicide application worked a couple hours before the downpour.
 
JCDEERMAN said:
We got 2" Saturday right after drilling 9 acres. It was a flood. When that was over, finished about another 11 acres Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Supposedly got almost another inch Sunday afternoon. Time will tell if our herbicide application worked a couple hours before the downpour.
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2 years ago I sprayed standing weeds in our fall plots in MS... now, granted, it was 3qts per acre gly plus surfactant equivalent (so a little hotter than normal), but the plots that got light rain on them just after I finished up burned down just as well as the ones that had 6 hours of dry time before the rain.

I bet you will be fine even with a downpour as long as it had time to completely dry before the rain (30 min to an hour depending on humidity)
 
megalomaniac said:
2 years ago I sprayed standing weeds in our fall plots in MS... now, granted, it was 3qts per acre gly plus surfactant equivalent (so a little hotter than normal), but the plots that got light rain on them just after I finished up burned down just as well as the ones that had 6 hours of dry time before the rain.

I bet you will be fine even with a downpour as long as it had time to completely dry before the rain (30 min to an hour depending on humidity)
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We did 2-3 quarts per acre and the guys said it was about an hour before the rain started. With it being as hot and breeze as it was, I'm fairly confident it dried. Will update in about a month when I get back there
 
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We did 2-3 quarts per acre and the guys said it was about an hour before the rain started. With it being as hot and breeze as it was, I'm fairly confident it dried. Will update in about a month when I get back there
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Hopefully you get a good kill.
Similar challenge for us....but we used 1.5 quart per acre, which normally works, but about half of what we sprayed couple weeks back got rained on hard shortly after application...and on a couple of the plots we got a "good enough" kill...and on a couple of the other plots there was little evidence they had even been sprayed....so for those plots we will reapply glysophate...no harm...nothing has been planted yet...and as mentioned in another post...for the barasica plots where we got good germination but a weak grass kill we're going to try chethidom...just waiting for it to be delivered....couldn't find it locally.
 
tellico4x4 said:
How much do you think we got? Farm Logs showed 2.5". Been out of town for 10 days but headed up this afternoon to see what I can get done rest of week.
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Sunday I was bushogging at our place had got a good rain Saturday but none on Sunday. I bushogged Sunday no problem and dust was way down. Lol.
 
muddyboots said:
Just got a great shower for 45 minutes.
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Really didn't want it today as I came up about dark in hopes of planting the next couple days 😂. Oh well, if too wet I'm sure I've got equipment in need of repair and/or maintenance. After being on "vacation" for past 10 days, I'm so ready to be away from people for a while!
 

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