Finally some needed rain!

[DIGGER27]

More important than ever to me because I just got a new heater, I think it may get pretty accurately deep but can't find out unless I can get down there.
Real deep here is 8-9" that's all I need but even 5-6" has a nice layer of masked quality treasure.

The baking heat appears to be gone now, we might still get to the low 80's here and there but it won't affect much and I have been sitting out most of the summer as I usually do because of the heat, humidity and destruction I would do in nicer lawns and park grass areas because you just can't dig in concrete.
Woods areas are an option but so many mosquitos and other bugs and overgrown vines with stickers and thorns that will hurt you.
My prime season is fall through to spring, the ground never freezes so even winter hunting is fine but every year we need at least one soaking rain after the heat to soften up the ground to really get my season up and running and we haven't got that yet.
We were grazed by Sally but not enough to help at all.

The other day I went to an old park, got some deep signals but couldn't get to them, I had to literally chop my way down to 1-2" to recover targets.
Frustrating.
In good times much easier, I can go as deep as I care to easily even at that park.

Today we are getting rain from Beta.
I don't want issues, we don't need flooding but a nice all day steady rain should do it and I think that may be happening.
Maybe a couple of hours with a few slightly heavier thunderstorms.
I hope so...there is not much more rain being forecasted around here until late October.

Sitting out the frozen ground cold months in Kansas was hard, sitting out the very uncomfortable summer months here is just as hard and even those few times I did get out it was miserable and not great fun.

I just want to hunt again normally, in comfortable temps and easy to dig dirt.
Those hidden treasures are still waiting for me to find them, I just know it, and my new detector just might be up to the task to help me do just that.

Here's hoping Season Late 2020 is about to begin!

 

[DougF]

And here I thought the southeast had plenty of rain in the last couple months. You must not be near the coast. The heat has broken here also, last 90 degree day was around Sept. 10. Pretty dry here, though. Good luck.

 

[DIGGER27]

And here I thought the southeast had plenty of rain in the last couple months. You must not be near the coast. The heat has broken here also, last 90 degree day was around Sept. 10. Pretty dry here, though. Good luck.

Birmingham Ala.
270 miles north of the coast.

 

[GKL]

Hope the rain today makes a good difference in ease of digging where you are !

Here in South Carolina we have been getting enough regular rain over the summer to keep the ground fairly moist most of the time and easy to dig (though obviously tougher in the clay or gravel areas). I just need to find some better permissions to go with the good digging conditions

We are getting more rain here tonight and tomorrow going into Saturday morning, but hoping to get back out detecting later Saturday.

We have had a year in the not too distant past where we went thru drought conditions, so I can appreciate the difficulty of trying to dig in concrete like dirt.

 

[tinsmith]

Old tin got out for bout 1.5 hours, quick hunt,. a couple days ago. Hunting along the edge of soccer fields. I too hunted very little all summer and we are in a drought here in Ct right now. I was not getting deeper than 5-6" tops. So dry. I stayed along the edge in the rough. Had a good time digging about a buck clad and one wheaty, 1955, .
I'm still pretty new to the Nox 600 and love it. Still using Park 1 mode and it's a great little coin killer. I'm not currently hunting an old enough place to expect silver and was surprised I dug a wheat penny there along the soccer field. I can't get into any decent park right now with this dry condition. Finally the temperature is tolerable but ground is desert dry. The woods here are so thick with ground brush I just itch looking at it. We have tons of bears, ticks, skunks, coyotes and guys have told me, one showed me the pics in his phone, we are spotting Cougars! O geeze,. What's next? Now I'm getting a little shy hitting the trails.

 

[DIGGER27]

Things are tough all over, most places, anyways.
Hopefully that will change.

You say you could only get 5-6" .
I would kill for 5-6" now or anytime in the long summer drought.

 

[tinsmith]

Your right Digger. 5-6" doesn't sound bad in a drought and that number is probably a stretch. But compared to the first couple times I used this Nox It's lacking depth. It wasn't as dry. In fact I was hunting a relatives yard thats alway wet/moist soil a couple months ago and that 600 was hitting good on 7 -8" lincolns. Tired me out. They're yard holds water , one large area is black mud. Now it's much dryer I'd think but haven't seen it lately. Anyway, it sickens me to see the. creeks dryed up like this. HH and hope we all get some decent rain soon!

 

[DIGGER27]

I went out this morning.
All is well, as hoped everything softened up immensely.
Holes were easy to dig, even in one spot with very compacted ground was temporary decent and easy.
Now if the temps don't soar high anymore my season has officially begun.

 

[kweis]

In North Central MD we've gotten no rain for near three weeks. Just 2/100th last night. Ground is bone dry down to at least 12" here. They say maybe something this Wednesday.

 

[AirmetTango]

This is the driest metal detecting summer in NW Ohio since I started (only since 2017). We’re currently on a 13 day rainless streak, and that last rain event was barely a quarter inch. Rained two other times in early September, each barely half an inch. Rained four times in August, all less than an inch except one storm....you get the idea. We might get something on Monday, forecast says 40% chance of rain. I won’t hold my breath, and even if we get any, it doesn’t sound like it’ll be enough to do much more than make the grass wet. Nothing else in the forecast for the next 14 days for us above a 20% chance, which basically means dry.

At least the farmers will be able to get into the fields to bring those desiccated beans down soon...