Wow.. the first 10" was nice.. but this is starting to REALLY get annoying...  The Weather station says we're only up to 8" for the past..6 to 7 weeks but there are spots that have had as much as 8" at a time.. and we're on like.. 1..2..3..4.. plus rounds of 1" in plus events.. with MORE in the forecast..

We had a 5" toad strangler at the home location a couple of weeks ago.. the neighbor said he dumped out 10" over 10 days 4 weeks ago..(he was in that 6" to 8" area.. on the BIG one..) Those April rains filled all the low spots in the fields.. and yet the ground sucked it up..  about 18 days later.. I planted through just about EVERY SINGLE ONE of those low spots.. as of Right now.. I probably got about 3% of our planted corn acreage under water.. again.

Now a 0.25" heavy mister looks like a 2.5" toad strangler.. 

In 2011 we only had 11.33" TOTAL for the entire year.. and I don't believe we had but maybe.. a couple inch rain events from 2011 through 2012'ish..

Since the drought started in 2010.. Lake Wilson has lost a Third of it's storage.. some 80,000 AF.. 40,000 of it in 2012 alone if I recall.. We still are not seeing a lot of runoff.. but things are starting to change.. although the level is STILL lower so far this year then on Jan 1st 2015.. maybe we'll get enough base flow to hold steady or see improvement.

http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/ks/nwis/uv/?cb_62614=on&cb_00054=on&format=gif_default&site_no=06868100&period=1750&begin_date=2015-05-16&end_date=2015-05-23

Lake Cheney is better but still below it's conservation pool level with.. "not much" run off making it to increase levels.. THUS FAR.. After 9.5" of rain..

 

The Lake has only come up about 10".. or about 7,000 AF.. "wow" so the moisture is going somewhere... that's how dry the subsoil was..

 

I would have guessed that 9.5" would have been worth more than a 10" rise in the lake level.. WOW.. that pretty well sums it up.