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East of Broken Bow | Happened here once, too. My dryland corn made 7BPA, which is kind of misleading because along the edge of it there is a little waterway where runoff from my flood irrigated field goes. More realistically, the first couple rows next to the ditch made 40-50, the rest of the field more like 2 or 3.
I think by definition 'drought' means you get a certain percentage less moisture than 'normal'. I know around here, people talk drought when we have less than 3/4 of normal rainfall, and if we get half of normal rainfall, it is a pretty good drought.
Of course, half of normal rainfall means different things. Here, where our nomal annual precipitation is 20-22 inches, you are talking 10-11 inches for the year. Other places half of normal is still more than our 'normal'.
I can remember a few years ago a guy from an I State was talking about their severe 2 year drought. Had only 44 or 45 inches total moisture in that 2 year period. He called it the biggest 2 year drought in his lifetime. 'Here', that would be 2 years of normal. | |
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What is your definition of drought?