After 2016 drought, Tennessee’s flush with water.
Last year was, well, last year.
It was Eisentrout’s way of explaining how East Tennessee is 3.65 inches of rain above normal year-to-date after being an inch below normal and well on its way to a historic drought at this time last year.
The 2016 drought Today there are virtually no counties in Tennessee experiencing drought; last year at this time drought covered nearly all of Middle Tennessee and all of East Tennessee.
A dry April and May there had put Davidson County at 18.9 inches last year at this time.
The drought there came later in the year.
Those few inches of rain can make all of the difference.
"Last year we were looking at a severe drought by late fall, and this year we are looking at a much better situation."
“They have seen a great yield (of hay for their cattle).
“Water and excess humidity are the epicenter for fungal organisms.” Denton said tomatoes – the big crop in Grainger County – are especially prone to problems with fungus in the type of weather conditions East Tennessee is experiencing.