Lack of precipitation new record for the county

The Adams Conservation District (ACD) has been gathering precipitation data in the Adams County region since 1975.

There are seven locations where data is collected: Benge, Carico Hills, Lind, Marengo, Rattlesnake Flats, Ritzville and Schrag/Moody.

The Lind Experiment Station, operated by the Washington State University extension program, records rainfall for Lind, while farmers report for the other six locations.

The process of collecting this data is simply recording the rain gauge after each rainfall and then emptying it. The total from the entire month is reported to ACD.

A trend of one dr...