The words our resident meteorologist spoke this morning set momentarily set me back in the WAXX 105.5 studio’s chair.
“We got a little more than an inch, and we actually could use it because we’re at a slight deficit,” he told me when describing the west-central Wisconsin weather we had yesterday, and which is lasting into today.
It’s been mentioned here during recent days but seems worth repeating: It’s surprising to consider the possibility of the soil being dry — and possibly even at a moisture deficit — after last year’s wet weather that haunted farmers throughout the growing season.
That was the case, though, as nature provided a few hours’ break from completing the spring planting. And, with that rain, the region’s farmers woke to see the much of the hay growing with a little deeper green. Though the week is forecast to have temperatures a little below average, we wonder whether the forecast is for a good hay-harvesting season while the newly planted crops start to germinate.
— Scott Schultz
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