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POTATOES WERE BLOOMING IN AUGUST -- The flowers are long gone, but a month ago, on Aug. 11, this field on Calhoun Road east of Best Road, like neighboring fields, was in full glory. And this was before the rains came late in the month.
The 2 inches of rain on Aug. 23-24 was the most precipitation during an 11-day period that totaled 2.6 inches, the month's entire rainfall. Only 2016's 2.9 inches and the 6.3 inches in 2004 were higher for August this century. The rain was 113% above, 1.4 inches over, the century's average of 1.2 inches.
There has been an inch or more of rain 10 years since 2000 but only three Augusts since 2015. Of the eight years with less than half an inch of rain, four have been since 2017, including 0.5 inches in 2023.
The 21.4 inches of rain this year is 3.1 inches above the century average of 18.3 inche...
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