How's your rain?

[T.N.T.]

We had 37 inchs in 2010,44 inchs last year,and thank god it was dry in april and we got nothing,and since may 1st 2012 we have had 16 inchs.Is that enough rain for you grassfarmer,or should it keep on raining???Do you consider that a excess???

[kato]

Where about are you? We haven't been keeping such good track of the rain, but I do know we had 2 1/2 inches in the last week. We're not drowning out yet, but our land rolls, so the low spots all around are starting to go under water.

Flood warnings are up again in Manitoba, which is really off the wall at this time of year. And I don't even want to think about what mosquitoes are lurking around waiting to attack...

[grassfarmer]

TNT, I wouldn't count that as excessive by any means.
I grew up in a 56 inch annual precip. area, a relatively
dry area of Scotland. Further up the west coast there
were 120-130 inch rainfall areas. A benefit you have
in Canada is that much of the precip comes during
the growing season - when most of your precip is
falling during the winter/non-growth period and you
can still get growing season droughts I think you get
the worst of both worlds. Growing grass on my sandy
soil I'd be quite happy with 30 inches of growing
season precip. Instead we get a long term annual
average of around 26 inches which is quite a bit by
AB standards. Like I say I'm greedy when it comes to
precipitation.

[T.N.T.]

Were in central sask,the eastern side and se sask is even worse.