Just how much rain did Saline County receive this past May and June? Even with the scorching sun and little precipitation over the past 21 days, almost all of Saline County is currently as much as 200% above the year-to-date normal precipitation level, according to data collected by the National Weather Service.
The same holds true for much of Thayer, Lancaster, and Nuckolls counties -- the four most water logged counties in eastern Nebraska.
In fact, significant section of Thayer and Nuckolls counties have received up to 300% of normal precipitation amounts for the year, thus far.
The World-Herald recently reported that farmers such as Randy Vana of Wilber "might have felt a sense of déjà vu this spring as they planted their crops, only to have the seedlings flooded out by rain; then planted again, only to face more rain, more planting and still more rain."
On 85 of his acres, Vana said, “we gave up” after rain destroyed the third planting and he couldn’t reach that part of the field to try a fourth planting without crushing other young cornstalks.
Record rains this spring in parts of Nebraska mean some farmers were still planting the first few days of this month.
Natalie Umphlett, climatologist at the High Plains Regional Climate Center, said that in Crete, "we got nearly a year’s worth of precipitation in two months." She said the rest of the summer in Nebraska should be cooler and wetter than usual.
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