County on track to break longest streak with no rain

According to Marion County weather recorder Eddy Pearce, Marion County is on track to beat the 2005 record of 36 days with no measurable rain.
On Sept. 26 Pearce said that no measurable rain has fallen in the county for 31 days. Pearce said that he last recorded measurable rain on Aug. 27 when 15/100ths of an inch was recorded in his rain gauge at his residence south of Hamilton.
Pearce, who only records the weather and makes no forecasts, said he gets his weather forecasts from the Weather Channel.
“All I know is what the Weather Channel puts up,” Pearce said. “They put the extended forecast up and they don’t forecast any precipitation through the fourth or fifth day of October,” he said.