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As per the subject, both the South Brandon and West Brandon rain gauges are now setup for the season just in time for whatever rain we might get today. From now and into the fall you can check the weather page to see how much rain has fallen within the past hour and how much has fallen in total on the day. I've found it particularly handy during and after a thunderstorm to get an idea just how much moisture we saw, and in some cases to see what differences there might've been between the West and South parts of the city.  
 
While I was in turning these on I also made a small addition to the Webcam section of the Weather page. The camera has been operational for a year now, and while it's been running it's been slowly building an archive of hourly images every day. As that archive gets bigger it gives the chance for some interesting comparisons. That i:ncludes now being able to click on the "last year" link below the camera image to see what the view looked like at this same time last year. Probably no surprise to folks with our later start to "spring," but last year's pic looks just a little bit greener!  
 
Enjoy!

Yes we finally was a bit of rain this morning, and I guess it's a start, and I maybe shouldn't mention this because it might ruin the optimism, but a millimetre is the thickness of a skinny little dime, so I'm going to continue the rain dance until we have at lease 15 of those skinny little dimes. Sometimes farming really tests your optimism, especially in a dry spring.

Don, we got some small hail for about 2 minutes this morning. The rain we had last night couldn't have been much because our birdbath was barely wet. This wind is really wreaking havoc though and still lots of dust off the fields.

It would be interesting if there were a few reports come in from the area to the south that did get some rain. We were like you mcginty, ice cold rain that lasted long enough to knock the dust down, by noon it had dissapeared with the wind.  
Technology allows us the opportunity to track these storms real time, and one storm yesterday morning showed a pretty good rain in the area south and east of Hartney, I quit following it as it headed further east but it did show decent rain in the Boissevain area, guess for the rest of us, maybe next time.