Delayed planting seasons create a lot of frustrations for everyone involved with planting crops.
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Indiana adds one more week to its months-long streak of having no drought across the state. In fact, from March 1st through April 14th (45 days), 35 of those days (78%) had precipitation in South Bend (31 days), Indianapolis (26 days), and/or Evansville (25 days).
While Hurricane Ida and her remnants have wreaked havoc down south and in the mid-Atlantic states, she was relatively kind and generous when it came to Indiana. Some southern counties received between 4 and 5 inches from Ida (Figure 1).
Last week, the topic around Indiana was the snow event in April. This week started off with above normal temperatures followed by significant rainfall.
Prior to this week, there was growing concern of developing drought across Indiana.
Two weekends ago, Indiana was facing freezing temperatures that broke numerous records across the state.
Another period of rain passed through the state earlier this week, providing limited rain to the northeast and southern counties.
The biggest topic seems to be how wet it is and how much more rain Indiana can expect. So far, May has experienced near-normal precipitation throughout the central part of the state with 0.5”-2” in southern and northern regions (Figure 1).
Rain, rain, go away! I hesitate to scream that too loud, though, for fear of a drought. That seems to be the weather and climate, these days – one extreme or another.
