
Originally Posted by
crappiefarmer
I understand exactly where You are geographically Bob. I have a cousin that moved out to Washington State a few years ago and when I asked her about all the rain, she explained to me that she lived on the dry side of the mountains. The Appalachians do that to an extent here in NC but I live far enough east of the mountains that moisture will feed back up and regenerate from the gulf of Mexico after a front has been sapped out by crossing the mountains. It saves our bacon from drought a lot of times but when moisture flows are coming from out of our NW, then the mountains hurt us and we only get spotty showers and storms. Our best moisture streams are out of the South and Southwest Here.CF