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May 2021 Discussion Thread

metwannabe said:
Maybe not a drought all summer and maybe it's isolated but umm, the crunchy dead grass and lowering creek levels around here would argue we're already in a drought. I noticed coming back from the OBX this weekend those canals and the Great Dismal Swamp are very low as well, comparatively speaking
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One of the saving graces is we had such a wet fall/winter. Imagine if we hadn't. Things would be so much worse.
 
ryan1234 said:
One of the saving graces is we had such a wet fall/winter. Imagine if we hadn't. Things would be so much worse.
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Wet fall/winter doesn't help seed crops that are trying to germinate a few inches below the surface. I get where you and other's are coming from, but droughts aren't always about long term water supplies (reservoirs, lakes, etc), often times the short term effects are far more serious..... I tend to view things from the ag point of view.
 
Lickwx said:
Yeah, I was in Halifax County a couple of weeks ago and the grass was crunchy brown and the trees were all dead. It might have been from the non-stop hard freezes from Jan 1- May 15 though, not drought.
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Not sure which Halifax Co you visited but trees are alive and well, don't recall any May hard freeze either..... I mean I know you are being "sarcastic" but wanted to clarify in case you were confused.
 
metwannabe said:
Not sure which Halifax Co you visited but trees are alive and well, don't recall any May hard freeze either..... I mean I know you are being "sarcastic" but wanted to clarify in case you were confused.
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Sometimes facts get jumbled up in his head and he doesn't communicate them in the right sequence.
 
metwannabe said:
Wet fall/winter doesn't help seed crops that are trying to germinate a few inches below the surface. I get where you and other's are coming from, but droughts aren't always about long term water supplies (reservoirs, lakes, etc), often times the short term effects are far more serious..... I tend to view things from the ag point of view.
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It's probably why we are D0-D1 for much of our region. Water table probably isn't in bad shape but the upper few inches of the soil are powder.
 
metwannabe said:
Wet fall/winter doesn't help seed crops that are trying to germinate a few inches below the surface. I get where you and other's are coming from, but droughts aren't always about long term water supplies (reservoirs, lakes, etc), often times the short term effects are far more serious..... I tend to view things from the ag point of view.
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Very true. I feel like you're right in the regards to flash droughts. Flash droughts are probably worse for vegetation as are random late freezes.
 
metwannabe said:
Not sure which Halifax Co you visited but trees are alive and well, don't recall any May hard freeze either..... I mean I know you are being "sarcastic" but wanted to clarify in case you were confused.
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I don’t know they looked crispy ! Halifax county Canada ! That’s where I was! County seat is Halifax . Saw some snow piles left on the slopes of medoc.
 
ryan1234 said:
One of the saving graces is we had such a wet fall/winter. Imagine if we hadn't. Things would be so much worse.
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1986 comes to mind. Still one of the worst droughts in the southeast although 2002 and 2007 are right up there.
 
ryan1234 said:
Very true. I feel like you're right in the regards to flash droughts. Flash droughts are probably worse for vegetation as are random late freezes.
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As a whole weather hasn't been very nice to ag this spring. Late freezes, hail dumps, dry conditions all we need is a hurricane and then ice storm this winter to really complete the set
 
SD said:
As a whole weather hasn't been very nice to ag this spring. Late freezes, hail dumps, dry conditions all we need is a hurricane and then ice storm this winter to really complete the set
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Let’s do it , we need all the extreme weather ! Don’t forget the record shattering heatwave this summer and record breaking ice storm and cold wave in winter .

I will say the weather has been kind to the walkers , doesn’t matter though their walking has a price and it’s higher costs for things thanks to ag taking blows .
 
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