Drought

[Belt Fed]

Any of you experiencing this? i have never seen it this dry. we have been under a burn ban for three months. lakes are going dry. the weather guy said we would need 25 inches of rain just to get out of the drought. it's like we have turned into the desert. it's cooled off some but still above normal on temps. duck hunters are gonna be pissed if it don't start raining. there is no swamps or ponds for ducks to come too. The opening week of straight walled deer gun season was near 100 degrees.

[shepp]

On 10/23/2026 at 4:21 PM, Belt Fed said:

Any of you experiencing this? i have never seen it this dry. we have been under a burn ban for three months. lakes are going dry. the weather guy said we would need 25 inches of rain just to get out of the drought. it's like we have turned into the desert. it's cooled off some but still above normal on temps. duck hunters are gonna be pissed if it don't start raining. there is no swamps or ponds for ducks to come too. The opening week of straight walled deer gun season was near 100 degrees.

An old member I still keep in touch with is up in NE Montana they’ve been in a drought for 4-5 years now and he’s a rancher

[MtnMike]

Pretty solid drought in South-central VA.  That where I have a lake cabin.  We were around 12" low on rain for the year before we got a decent rainfall from the remnants of that last hurricane a week or two ago.  Lake is 8' below full pond and was that way the whole summer.  A lot of docks are on dry land. A lot of folks are also saying that data centers up river of the lakes are using a lot of water, and a lot more than they said they would. I can't really confirm or rebut.  The "data" on data centers is pretty sketchy.

[shooterrex]

We got enough rain for a good crop of beans. 1 pond mostly dry. 2 ponds a little low but plenty of water. and 1 small pond that's spring fed. It's full.