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Wish it would rain, not constant but at least to keeep me from using the garden hose!

It's kinda unreal how thirsty the ground is when you do water... it simply disappears and you can't tell you've even gotten the ground wet!! I never water my perennials (I generally don't have to), but I have given them a deep watering several times already because they're just so unhappy! But my 1000L rainwater tank is almost empty, and not really any rain in sight.  
 
The river seems really low. If this keeps up, I wonder if water restrictions will come into play? Has that ever happened before in Brandon?

When this growing season started I thought that we might be looking at a season that would catch us with a frost in late August with the full moon. Not sure about all areas but the year did start off with not bad moisture conditions. Just checking numbers we are well ahead of last year with crop heat units, with such aggressive growing conditions, much of this moisture is disappearing quickly, and a good rain would really help.  
Since this is the beginning of the haying season, we will likely have showers, seems to happen every year.  
Let's just hope that any of the thunderstorms don't smash us like the storm that hit the Elgin, Fairfax, Minto, and on further east.

The summer forecast on the Weather Networks site. Basically drier/worsening drought conditions compared to last summer.  
I hope they are wrong.

I drove thru that rain this morning. It poured between Carberry and Austin, so much so the car was hydroplaning. No rain to speak of in MacGregor at all.

Drove to Carberry yesterday a.m. It started to rain just after turning onto #5 from Neepawa and poured the whole way.  
Got home to Minnedosa later and no sign of any here. The only upside to this is not having to cut the grass so often.

Hopefully this week.

We can't blame every drought on human-caused climate change, but this is consistent with the prediction that they're getting more frequent and more severe over time. It's going to be expensive, and not a lot of fun.

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Permaculture  
 
Even if you don't grow your own food, the prinicipals and concepts behind closed-loop system like permaculture saves water and resources in the long term.  
 
For example, I don't grow annual flowers on the most part (I have one small pot on my front steps with some annuals that my kids take care of). Otherwise, I grow perennials, whose deep roots means less watering. I also put down mulch in my flowers to help retain moisture (and keeps down weeds). I also select plants by their usefulness at times - things like chives and walking onions not only add interest to the garden but are yummy as well!!  
 
We also collect rain water and use that almost exclusively to water our food gardens and perennials. We so far have one 1000L tank, and I hope to have 2 more by the end of the summer.

Is all around Brandon just not here. Spent the weekend at Shady Oaks Campground by Sydney and dam near drowned.

Any reports on the where a bouts of the storm chasers today.

I'm assuming they're down south, as the risk is signficantly higher down there. I'll try to post a map image.

Yay rain! I hope it storms for awhile so that the ground can take it

Warnings for Virden, Oak Lake, Kenton for storm that looks likely to progress toward Brandon within an hour or two:  
https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/index_e.html?prov=mb

It passed through here (the area you mentioned above.) A nice, somewhat heavy rain. Lots of thunder, some lighting We had no hail. A bit of wind. Overall a good rain, although not very long.

were a couple intense but very short duration storms. They really didn't gain in intensity till after they past Brandon. The last storm (~8pm) developed just outside of Brandon, Rosewood.  
 
I was really hoping to relax on my balcony and watch the storms slowly roll in. Watch the lightning and listen to the rumbles of thunder. There was one fairly close bolt of lightning to the south of Brandon and that was really the only one I observed. Maybe tonight we will get a few more.

like another storm rolling into Brandon, and more viewable lightning.

and the lawns of Brandon breathed a collective sigh of relief

Happy now?

I purposely walked the dog (usually my husband's task) this evening so it would rain.  
 
You're welcome.  
 
*squish squish squish*

I don’t know how much we got, but another inch and a half wouldn’t hurt at all.

But some more would be great. Loved the rain even if some people can’t drive safely .

Finally got the rain and some hail last night ( photo in right side of discussion) just west of Shilo

Teased the rain as last time was a nay sayer saying it won’t and it didn’t. This time I teased it saying is that all you got and Mother Nature answered.  
 
Sincerely  
Rainmaker

Environment Canada didn't have their warnings on TV last night for the storms? Not that I missed them one little bit though

Nothing quite warning worthy for Brandon itself though we did get a little storm that dumped a decent amount of rain and gave a few cracks of thunder. Going by Robert’s post some pretty serious hail not too far away!  
No real mention I saw for serious tornado threat, which is when they bring out the big guns as far as the media warning system.  
 
Edited by Adam, 2018-06-27 22:03:19