The temporary burn ban that county commissioners had been expected to proclaim at their meeting Monday has been called off after plentiful rain fell over the weekend.

Rainfall measuring up to 3.3 inches could hardly have arrived in a more timely manner.

After holding off until the small grain harvest was complete, rain began arriving last Friday to bring relief to summer crops, pastures, lawns and gardens that had begun to suffer from the dearth of moisture along with high temperatures.

Local Weather Observer Steve Loftis recorded an official 2.35 inches for Kingfisher, falling as follows as recorded at the National Weather Service Station in Kingfisher: one inch on Saturday, 1.03 inches on Sunday and .32 inch on Monday.

Other reports from around the county included:

Cashion– 2.1 inches at Cashion Grain and Feed Elevator.

Dover – a total of two inches at the residence of Rick and Robin Johnston northwest of Dover. The rain was recorded as follows: Friday .7 inch; Saturday .4 inch, and Sunday .9 inch.

Hennessey – 2.7 inches at the Harold Ebers residence. District 2 County Commissioner Ray Alan Shimanek said he received one inch of rain Sunday night.

Loyal – one inch at the Jon Cochran Sr. residence in Loyal.

Okarche – 2.15 inches at the Mike and Donna Reid residence northwest of Okarche and 1.8 inches at Okarche Grain and Feed Elevator, west of Okarche.

Other reports for the Kingfisher vicinity included 3.3 inches at the Twila Adams residence east of Kingfisher and 4.1 inches at an unofficial gauge at the Gary and Christine Reid residence off Shafenberg Road east of Kingfisher. That rainfall fell as follows: 2.3 inches as of 7 a.m. Saturday from Friday’s thunderstorm, 1.3 inches as of 7 a.m. Sunday and .5 inch at 7 a.m. Monday.

The Mesonet site at the Mueggenborg farm west of Kingfisher showed a fourday total on Monday of 2.30 inches.

Mesonet four-day readings at other area sites included: Guthrie 2.13 inches, Marshall 1.73 inches and Watonga 2.06 inches.

The heaviest rain occurred at Grandfield in southwest Oklahoma – 5.20 inches.

The weekend rains brought the total rainfall for June in Kingfisher to 2.35 inches and the year-to-date total to 14.26 inches. Only .03 inch had fallen in June before last weekend’s rain.

The rain filled county stock ponds, providing livestock water as the county and state head into the traditional hot, dry months of July and August.

The 10-day forecast calls for high temperature readings from the upper 80s to lower 90s under partly cloudy skies for the next 10 days with south winds up to 20 miles an hour.

The forecast predicts the next chance of thunderstorms will be Thursday, July 2.