Drought Continues In Spite Of Weekend Rains

It poured at my house over the weekend. Not just once, but twice. Rain like we haven't seen in months. Thunder and lightning that was loud and also knocked out my power for a while. I live in upper Montgomery county and we must have picked up over 2 inches of rainfall. In Charles county and in the Fredericksburg area, flood warnings were issued on Sunday afternoon with more than 2 inches in spots.

The rainfall, however, was scattered. Scott in Sperryville, Virginia, for example, was bemoaning the lack of rain in his area. It's still awfully dry.

And where it did rain, it fell too fast. The ground has been rock hard and much of the rain runs off, when it rains so hard, instead of soaking in. What we need to break the drought is regular rainfall.

July is just about over, so we have another 4 to 6 weeks of real summer weather to deal with. Unless we get some kind of tropical system, the odds of regular rainfall are rather low.

It's still summer and that means hit-and-miss type of thunderstorms, when we get them. And after today, it looks like hotter and drier weather returns for the rest of the week.