RAIN !!!!!!

[kentuck]

For the first time in weeks, we are getting a good rain in Colorado Springs. It was almost 100 degrees today and the forecast was for possible rain tomorrow with temps cooling down to 75-80 degrees. Finally!!! Thank Jehovah!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Excellent!

Wish I could send you some of ours.

[NoPasaran]

2. RAIN!

Send a little our way.

[niyad]

13. would love to share, but we need every drop we can get.

[Voice for Peace]

17. Jehovah will be displeased. Or, come to think of it,

why does Jehovah smile upon ye
but bring no rain to Albuquerque?

[niyad]

19. we did a better rain dance??

[Voice for Peace]

22. hmm.. I've been dancing as hard as I can

I'll try to do better. Surely there is mercy
for this poor dry land. I will entreat the
great Dog to fill the rivers once again.

[niyad]

34. skyclad, perhaps?

[abq e streeter]

28. A few drops (and nice cool breeze) on Tramway tonight

Supposedly a possibility of real rain this weekend.

[chillfactor]

29. they have been predicting rain for us for days....

I live in the Sandias and not one drop of rain here...

[hlthe2b]

3. Yeah... I'm up in Fort Collins today & got caught at the dog park... It came up quickly

and someone had to give me and my dog a ride back to the safety of my basement--hail, tornado warnings and heavy thunderstorms...

I'll take the rain and the cool, but heavens, I could do without the rest.

At least I have a nice cool basement to wait it out and my girlie dog is surprisingly calm...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Can you spare some?

Scanner on, after sundown...yup fire threat is still high

[winter is coming]

5. Good news. Hope you get just the right amount. n/t

[niyad]

6. just wish it had lasted more than a minute and half on this side

[kentuck]

8. It's been raining a good shower for the last 20 minutes or so.

Very helpful. A lot of thunder and lightning headed your way.

[niyad]

10. sure hope we get some more. here it was just enough to send everyone indoors at the cafe and

restaurants.

[Voice for Peace]

20. we had six drops here. okay, maybe seven

but no more than ten.

Big dry winds, perfect for wildfires.

[kentuck]

24. Are you east of here?

???

[wandy]

7. Yes! Rain!

[niyad]

9. are you enjoying the lightning show? absolutely beautiful, hope it does not start any fires.

[kentuck]

12. A real light show!

It's beautiful!

[madinmaryland]

11. We've gotten nearly twice the amount of rain we normally get in June (now over 8")

Maryland.

[NoPasaran]

14. After a wet May, June has been bone-dry in Austin

106 today.

Thank Dog for air conditioning!

[Cleita]

15. Bless you, your God, and the rain.

I hope thing start changing.

[ErikJ]

16. Without rain we'd all still be fish.

[MirrorAshes]

18. Rain!!!!!!

[Voice for Peace]

21. If they can build pipelines to carry oil, why can't they irrigate the USA so the water gets spread

around?

I haven't heard a good answer yet, if anybody knows.

[backscatter712]

25. In Colorado, it's because there's not enough water.

Colorado's semi-arid - one step short of desert, so even though there's lots of infrastructure such as dams & such to capture mountain snow runoff and divert rivers, we do run out. Most of the natural water that comes out of the Rockies gets diverted, leaving a small fraction to go downstream. Farms and cities have to pay a premium to buy water rights so they have enough water to irrigate crops and provide tap water to residents. It's one of the reasons why fracking is such an environmental problem - it uses huge amounts of water, and it contaminates that water with nasty chemicals & petroleum products, making it unusable for other stuff like drinking or irrigating. Don't get me started on Colorado water law - it evolved to be especially byzantine to manage a very limited resource.

[backscatter712]

23. It just hit here in Denver!

A real thunderstorm!

Me likes!

[pinto]

26. Good to hear. You guys have had it rough recently.

[aquart]

27. Congratulations!

[awoke_in_2003]

30. 100 in KCOS?...

Unreal

[madrchsod]

31. to bad we could`t ship some of our water to ya...

northern illinois has had the same amount of rain as the entire last year. southern wisconsin`s and northern illinois`s rivers have been at flood stage twice in a month and a half. some areas of the chicagoland and madison wisconsin received 8+ inches within an hour and change .

one of the storms that roared out of colorado last week ended up causing tsunami off the coast of new jersey.

what climate change?

[Rowdyboy]

32. Good to hear it! We got a nice shower this evening too in Mississippi...its always good

but we weren't hurting so congratulations! I know how good it can feel.

[secondwind]

33. We are soaked through here in Boston........ rain, rain, rain... for the next week or so.

[CrispyQ]

35. We had a nice little soaker, as well, but we are still way below average.

Business park lawn - seriously, why is it allowed? Acres & acres of grass that nobody walks on or uses, ever. And they are the worst offenders of watering during the heat of the day & having sprinkler heads that shoot the water into the street.

[malaise]

36. That should help out the fires

Great news Kentuck