2.8" ( so far )

the temperature in my back yard is a bit more seasonable today...only nine degrees ( fahrenheit ) above the "average" high for the day...

and, in a throwback to last may, we again find ourselves under a weather system that stretches from the gulf of mexico to the great lakes...

and which, by seven this morning, had produced 2.8" of rain in my back yard ( it has rained a bit more since then and there is more forecast...there may be an update )...so i decided to go have a look around...

the ground isn't frozen so you know all this water standing in the fields is there because they are sodden...

all but the largest of the drainage ditches are full ( the roads are flooded in places as well ) and some are creating miniature rapids as they run downhill...

there are numerous cuts in the berms of fields where there was more runoff than the drainage systems could handle...

and this field has created a waterfall where the runoff has over-topped an abutment for a culvert...deniers aside ( or ignored if you care to...i have no use for the willfully ignorant...denial is usually not a good thing ) this much rain in january at the south end of the inland sea in nothing like "normal"...the local evidence for a serious change in the climate continues to be reinforced by a growing number of threads...all we need do is look.