Rain chances for you almost every day in the forecast!

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=166&y=121&site=ind&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=166&map_y=121#.XxU1K2B7nX5

I think I'm 60 miles east of mcfarm.

The last rain I had on over 1/2 of my corn and beans was June 29 , 25/100.  the other 1/2 caught between 1-2 inches between July 6 and15th. Just a trace last night.

Corn is silking and beans are flowering

Edit WAS Harleyed last night

Hi cutworm...yes rain all around yesterday but just not here. 1/2 of 1/10th in the gauge. very frustrated as our crop were devastated in May with 6 to 8inches of cold rain and we have lots of replants and cannot catch a rain now. We get the thunder and wind and then it  either changes direction or just fades

We had a storm blow through 8:30 a.m. yesterday. 6/10'' rain. Trees down everywhere. Our power was off 8:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. i had to clear highway with my chainsaw as trees were across both lanes

BTDT Bowyer, feel your pain. Now lots of farmers will wonder til October how badly the corn is down and how bad will harvest be,

Thanks for the reports............keep them coming!

Sorry for the bad weather some are experiencing. The upcoming weather has some positive things.

In sw IN, we've been blessed with wonderful, timely rains, unlike most to our north and east(mcfarm/cutworm).

The precip map below for the next 7 days, looks great for much of the country............but IN(well northeast of here) and OH could miss.

Thats when it really hurts. 

When almost everybody is getting a rain...............just not you.

Prices tank as the size of the national crop grows................and your crop shrinks.

I have a couple of farmer buddies that like to joke about this affect. They will say "Mike, you can bring us some good weather and bring a drought to IA?"

Received 3-10 on some of my crop last night. Still hurting on 50% 

Thanks cutworm,

Got another 1.1 here yesterday before noon.

The crops here, especially the corn is unbelievable. Got to be a record here.....but nothing like they produce in IA or C.IL with that black soil.

This far southwest, we didn't get any of the Wisconsin glacial deposits of wonderful top soil like areas where mcfarm lives did.

cutworm,

You are exactly the guy I want to talk to about this. Where you farm, is exactly on the boundary of where the southern edge of the Wisconsin glacial deposit is.

Would be interested in your take about soils there. What county are you in again?

Right where you live, the soils must change pretty quickly, the cutoff juts across Franklin county. Is this where you farm?

Indiana Soil and Landscape Evaluation Manual

https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/ay/ay-323.pdf

Here's the precip map that I forgot to include last night.

Hopefully the blues shift more northeast for you guys who are on the boundary.

Tue update........the blues have shirted farther east. Let hope it happens!

Yes Mike I am right on one of the two moraines that were pushed up from the last glacier. More late when I get time 

The maps below show how things have been drying out for you guys:

Soilmoisture anomaly:

These maps sometimes take a day to catch up to incorporate the latest data(the bottom map is only updated once a week).

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/US/Soilmst/Soilmst.shtml#

You are considered to be in a slight drought right now.

      https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/              

Here the % rain compared to average for the last 7, 14 and 30 days.

Mike been a month since we have had a decent rain. Got 1-3.5 today

Congrats pll!

I see storms marching across IL along and just north of I-70 Hopefully won’t  Harley mcfarm but conditions are still decent  or better for mcfarm and cutworm to get a great rain for the next couple of days.

I am about 35 miles north of i70 straight nort of Effingham

Well then, congrats on just getting nailed with more great rains.

I couldn't remember exactly where you were. Thanks

If these storms can hold together for several more hours, mcfarm will be "singing in the rain"

OK, he's doesn't seem like the type of feller to be singing but watching these storms hit the Indy area, would be "candy to his eyes"

The last 18z GFS ENS model update for rains the next 36 hours has IN as the main target...........including as far southeast as cutworm.

We just watch the radars now thru Wed Night to see what actually develops. 

Be interested in getting a rain report from our Indiana producers.

We got another .5 inches here in the garden spot of sw Indiana.

3/10 so far at 4;42 am. Hope that rain west of 65 holds together and gives us some more

Yes cutworm, this next batch is looking pretty promising if it holds together for over an hour!

If anything it’s shown some signs of growing. This is good. Really good.

Mcfarm got some needed rain. How much?

 After this blob of rain moves east. A boundary and some upper level support could result in new rains developing later today or tonight.

Indiana is in the atmospheric sweet spot right now.

Traveling over the dry soils is trying to dry up the rains as they track east now so cw May not get as much as Mcfarm but hopefully you can get another .5

Another rain for cutworm this morning, to add a few more tenths to his totals with IN being in that "sweet spot" for rains right now.

I would think mcfarm had to get over 1 inch and cutworm might be up there close to an inch (though heaviest amounts might not have been over him).

Rain chances will slip southeast later tonight, so we need to get, while the gettin is good!