The forecast said we'll have rain all day starting about 5:30AM. It's 4:30PM and it's just starting to sprinkle. I predict it will end in about 30 seconds.
Weather in your area?
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I just checked the gauge... 1.17 inches in exactly 1 hour. It's still coming down!!! (in buckets).
I've gotten about 3 inches in the last 36hrs. It'll be 3 days before it's dry enough for doing anything outside. So much for hunting plants, creeks will be out of their banks.
I've gotten about 3 inches in the last 36hrs. It'll be 3 days before it's dry enough for doing anything outside. So much for hunting plants, creeks will be out of their banks.
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He, he, it's the real stuff ain't it!
Fresh off the Gulf!
Tested by me and @zannej !So, you are assuming it isn't gonna rain for 3 days?
Be careful or they will be callin' you 'greedy' like us!
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OK y'all are making me real jealous with all this talk of rain. We've seen .01" in almost a month now I think. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, we'll see. 
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Sorry, @Chaosdawn ! It is raining steady here now. @Pearl -- you got anything? So relieved, I hope it rains all week as forecast.
Thinking about it... creeks have been a problem for me this whole year. Every time I think I'll hike into the brush it seems water is up in the creeks! Ya'll remember this? Drove a couple hundred miles, went up on the mtn leek hunting back in march... It rained 4 inches the night before. This creek kept me away from the leeks... It's been raining up on the mtn this week too. I'm sure Black creek it out of it's banks.
Just getting a drizzle now!!
Watching the storms and rain to my south and east!! Think there will be widespread rain tonight and tomorrow!! I do kind of remember this rain stuff. 
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MSN has a good weather map, showing the minute by minute timing with shading indicating intensity.
Finally! It rained pretty much all night and it's still going. The forecast says it will rain through at least tonight and into tomorrow.
.42" late yesterday. I'll take it. So humid this morning you could cut the air. Mid 80s again today
So today looks like we may have our first appreciable rainfall in weeks. We are in the target area for 1-2 inches, we will see.
It's REALLY raining!! 
Heading out to feed the donkey, check the rain gauges!
Heading out to feed the donkey, check the rain gauges!
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Rained hard here for over an hour. Power is out, not much thunder. Turned off AC and fans.
We only got a half inch so far!! Can't believe how much Dallas/Ft. Worth got, 6.6" to 10.4"!! At least I got a dust settler!!
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Up to 2” has fallen in my area, another 1-3” expected today. Rained hard last night too.
Got another inch over night... I finished with inside chores and can't do much outside.
Looks like I'm going on a grocery run to the big town.
Looks like I'm going on a grocery run to the big town.
Nearing the 4" mark! Water is running hard and fast! The creek is over my dead end road, DAY OFF!!
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It finally let up and is just sprinkling the past hour or so. Incredible what has fallen in the metro area, up to 10" in some places. Lots of accidents in the past 18 hours, water rescues, and flooding. Saw photos where the water was nearly covering the roofs of cars. Got a flood warning through my phone.
Sun came out this morning, now the sky is clouding over and the forecast says 70% chance of rain...
Took a photo of the Sacramento Mountains on my way home, some of those canyons are deep! The peaks beyond these on the western rim rise to 9000' and higher! This western rampart has scrub brush and chaparral, but there are pine forests higher up near Cloudcroft, with very beautiful scenery! This pic was taken from an elevation of about 4340', so the mountains don't look as high as they actually are, 10-4? Anyway, here's the pic:
Early next month, when my bike tire is swapped out, I'm gonna explore the Rim Trail and see about riding down some of these canyons... I know there are trails approved for motorized use, but one rating in my guide says "Difficult!" We'll see how bad it is in due time, my first objective is the Rim Trail, which is nearly 30 miles long... should be fun!!!
P.S. Spikedriver, note the rail lines paralleling US54 south of Alamogordo... our local library has a cool map of old wagon trails in this area, and the main trails became today's modern roads. Some like US54 run alongside railroad tracks, but the tracks were there first, lol. I'm sure a wagon trail ran alongside the tracks in the old days...
Edit: Come to think of it, a spur railroad was built from El Paso to Alamogordo circa the late 1890s, mainly to haul the timber coming down from the mountains. There was a logging railroad too, up there between 7000' and 8000' elevation, but I don't know if there was a connecting line between the two. There might have been... I'll have to check later.
Took a photo of the Sacramento Mountains on my way home, some of those canyons are deep! The peaks beyond these on the western rim rise to 9000' and higher! This western rampart has scrub brush and chaparral, but there are pine forests higher up near Cloudcroft, with very beautiful scenery! This pic was taken from an elevation of about 4340', so the mountains don't look as high as they actually are, 10-4? Anyway, here's the pic:
Early next month, when my bike tire is swapped out, I'm gonna explore the Rim Trail and see about riding down some of these canyons... I know there are trails approved for motorized use, but one rating in my guide says "Difficult!" We'll see how bad it is in due time, my first objective is the Rim Trail, which is nearly 30 miles long... should be fun!!!
P.S. Spikedriver, note the rail lines paralleling US54 south of Alamogordo... our local library has a cool map of old wagon trails in this area, and the main trails became today's modern roads. Some like US54 run alongside railroad tracks, but the tracks were there first, lol. I'm sure a wagon trail ran alongside the tracks in the old days...
Edit: Come to think of it, a spur railroad was built from El Paso to Alamogordo circa the late 1890s, mainly to haul the timber coming down from the mountains. There was a logging railroad too, up there between 7000' and 8000' elevation, but I don't know if there was a connecting line between the two. There might have been... I'll have to check later.
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Hey @Bacpacker Do you believe this? (I bought a rain gauge like bacp)
As of 9am I'd gotten 4 inches of rain in 48hrs. I emptied the rain gauge before leaving for town around 11am.
There's about 5 inches in it now. omg! Dad came over and said it rained hard. He's been known to understate things. 5 inches of rain in <4hrs.
It rained hard in town. Once I was in a store. Later in the way home I hydroplaned at 40mph, a big state hwy, straight road. I slowed down again, visibility was good but the drops where huge. The kind of rain that comes off tropical storms.
As of 9am I'd gotten 4 inches of rain in 48hrs. I emptied the rain gauge before leaving for town around 11am.
There's about 5 inches in it now. omg! Dad came over and said it rained hard. He's been known to understate things. 5 inches of rain in <4hrs.
It rained hard in town. Once I was in a store. Later in the way home I hydroplaned at 40mph, a big state hwy, straight road. I slowed down again, visibility was good but the drops where huge. The kind of rain that comes off tropical storms.
Yep I belive it. We had 8+ one day a couple years back. I found out it easier to dump with less than that in it. The funnel is squirrely if you try and rest the outer tube on it.
What do you think about the gauge? I've enjoyed mine over the years
Almost 2 inches of much needed rainfall yesterday. More showers/T showers expected this afternoon.
I like the gauge. The precision is nice. However my puppy made it a chew toy once. Broke off one little piece from the lip of the inner tube. Chewed on the cone too. I glued it back up with gorilla glue. The function isn't compromised, just a couple battle scars, still measures accurately.
I set up long ago to do daily reports to COCORAHS.org. They suggested that gauge due to accuracy.
I got 0.85" of rain yesterday. I had hoped for more but trying not to complain. Thought maybe we'd get more today but looks like it's clearing up. 
Drizzly mess here!
