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We were missed again. Look at the huge rain radar echo in N. Central Arkansas. That stuff blew up into heavy rain about 40 miles east of here, after passing through here as drizzle.

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Arg! That sucks. I feel your pain and frustration.

We got our heavy precipitation lately in the form of snow. 15 inches in 4 hours, then another 6 inches over another 12 hours. Now it is just sitting there, on the ground surface, not doing anyone any good apart from being pretty. I still need to get my swimming float dock out of the deep pit that is my unfilled pond, it is still down too low to get it out. There was a nice skim of ice on the pond this morning already!!! Not ready for this. Too soon!

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We finally got 1/4 inch overnight. The pond is up 1/4 inch too.

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I got 1.3" last night finally. Nothing really changed, but just feels better knowing it rained. Now I have got just over 8" since June 14th. To Compare, I got 21" last November in one month, then averaged about 15" per month thru April 2016!


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Brian,
If we could get 1.3 inches in one night, my creek would start flowing, and I could pump and multiply the 1.3" many fold.

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The pond has now lost exactly seven inches in the past 60 days, counting the piddly showers we have had with no run off. I would guess that is all evaporation. Last rain with any run-off at all was July 26-27 at 2.1".

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Guess you missed that rain yesterday? Looked like most of the state was getting good rain. We got some, but not sure how much.


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We got a little, (0.65") but am about 40 miles too far west to get the best of it. Plus, it wasn't a hard rain, no run off.

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We received just over a half inch rain Friday, then a total of about 1.6 inches last night and early this morning. Pond #1 bottomed out about 37-3/4 inches below full pool and is now up 11-1/2 inches and still rising. I hope it keeps raining like a normal winter, and our drought is broken. I think we will be about 14 or 15 inches below normal for 2016. The brand new pond has a puddle in the middle about 30 x 40 feet and about 2.5 feet deep.

This rain was the first in five months that had visible run-off.

Edit: I was able to pump a little from the intermittent creek and bring pond #1 up to less than 13 inches below the overflow. That's an increase of a little over 25 vertical inches since last week. The surface area is much greater.

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Good deal John. Sounds like you will sure have enough water in the new pond to add FHM and if you get some more all your fish.


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2016 rainfall was officially 33.45 inches; that's about 14 inches below normal. We had a couple inches less locally, from my measures.

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