Summer Weather Overview:

[loneranger]

Now that the growing season is over and everyone wants dry for harvest, I must say it was a great growing season for my little part of SE Iowa. Rain almost weekly. Not too much just enough. It seems though much of the rest of the state needs to get flooded for my area to have a decent growing season. The persistent pattern of fronts crossing thru after midnight or early in the morning across eastern Iowa is constant every summer. Things tend to diminish twards morning. The active parts of the jet streams moving north tward the I-80 corridor is the same each summer. We in southern Iowa were blessed this summer since it was cooler. The,"Ring of Fire", pattern hung around instead of heading up into Minn. All in all my area lucked out. Not today though. Lots of rain last night along I-80 DesMoines area, but died out in the morning heading south. I have some late planted rye, that I watered with water from my creek to give it a boost. Cause no more rain chances for quite some time for Se Iowa. Possibly a couple more weeks. Good for harvest though. Harvest ON!!

 

[4 Buck]

Thanks for the update. Always an interesting read when its about weather from you!

 

[loneranger]

Thanks,,,I know most people don't really follow the Atmosphere the way I do. I started getting interested because my Cousin and I grew a Big garden in our teens. Now I have 27 fruit trees, garden,food plots,flowers,shade trees a lawn. I sometimes think how nice it would be to retire to a house on just a little plot of ground with a postage stamp piece of grass around it and forget all the growing. Spend my free time helping out at more charities or just hiking in a Nat Forest. I might do that. coarse the forest would probably be needing rain so I would still watch the weather. Since moving to Iowa and knowing some farmers around Ott and Des, I have kept track of Summer weather patterns and winter. Most of central and southern Iowa ends the year with around the same precip totals. The I-80 corridor tends to gain more during Summer. The south catches up during winter. This is consistent every year. I have searched the internet for sites that have weather mania in common, but have found none. A few that you have to pay for. Guess I'll keep it a private hobby.