I enjoyed the nice weather we had last spring, but new that we would be hurting for water later on. I’m surprised that it is only now that we are having the water shortage notices. I thought the fires would be a lot worse too.
Time to get those outdoor projects wrapped up this weekend.
During May and June, Seattle had about six late night, pre-dawn, rainfalls of around 0.25 inches.
Since the ground absorbed almost all that water - no evaporation, no run off - I believe that is why we have very few visible signs of drought in King County.
Here in the northeast we had a very late very hard freeze that did a fair amount of damage to the plants.
Then May was dry and since then, we have been inundated. It has wreaked havoc with my garden.
Last year some people we know had wells that went dry. They got recharged this year.
“Time to get those outdoor projects wrapped up this weekend.”
I know what you mean. I’m in North Idaho and we had a very abrupt end to summer and a quick turn to fall /early wi ter weather. We were doing a lot of travel in July and September, so quite a bit of yard neglect. Time to move summer stuff to storage. It seems just yesterday I was planting the garden pots.