Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date …
1971: Soaking rains brought mixed responses from regional farmers.
As reported by the Portales News-Tribune:
“The moisture was not welcome to farmers with broomcorn down in the rows, waiting to be stacked, and the dripping sky is even more gloomy to the migrant labor which is here to work in the broomcorn fields.
“But to everyone else, the moisture is welcome, if only the sun will come out and give the country at least two more weeks of growing weather.”
In Roosevelt County, rainfall totals had ranged from a half inch at Elida to 2.8 inches on Jake Scott's farm northeast of Causey.
Portales recorded just under an inch of moisture (and an overnight low of 44 degrees), while Floyd had 1.5 inches and Milnesand had 1.2 inches.
In Curry County, most communities reported about an inch of rain overnight. Eddie Stanfield in Grady said his rain gauge measured an inch early this morning after a “hard rain” that lasted about 40 minutes.
The big rainfall winner was seven miles east of Rosedale near the Texas border, where Jerry Northcutt reported almost 4 inches of rain with a little hail.
Rosedale, today a ghost town, was halfway between Hollene and Bellview just east of Grady.
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