Timely April showers visited Kingfisher County beginning Friday and lasted through Sunday morning.

The showers produced moisture ranging from 1.3 inches at the Mike Rosen residence one mile east of Kingfisher to three inches at the Rick and Robin Johnston residence northwest of Dover.

Local Weather Observer Steven Loftis recorded a total of 1.78 inches of moisture, including 1.35 inches at 7 a.m. Sunday and .43 inch at 7 a.m. Monday.

The readings reflected rainfall during the preceding 24 hours.

The moisture arrived in time to kickstart small grain fields, some of which had begun to turn blue due to drought stress, as well as pastures, lawns and gardens countywide.

Many area grain fields were fully headed out following the rain.

More rainfall is expected to be in the county’s future.

According to the National Weather Service and the Mesonet, there are rain chances every day this week beginning with a chance of storms Tuesday night.

The rainfall chances go well into the weekend with predictions of upwards of 2 inches expected.

Weekend Mesonet rainfall readings in the area included: Kingfisher, 1.71 inches; Watonga, 1.02 inches; Guthrie, 1.55 inches, and El Reno 1.33 inches.

Other reports for the three day time frame were much the same.

The Tom Arms Facebook reports included: Arms residence, one mile west of Kingfisher, 1.6 inches; Mike Kretchmar, 1.9 inches at Okarche; Cathy Howard, northwest of Lacey, 1.8 inches, and Barry Crosswhite, 10 miles east of Kingfisher, 2.5 inches.

Personal contacts by the Times and Free Press produced these rainfall reports: Mike and Donna Reid, 3.5 miles southwest of Kingfisher, 1.8 inches; Twila Adams, five miles east of Kingfisher, 1.8 inches; Mike Sparks at Hennessey, 2.5 inches; Kelly Buck, inside Kingfisher city limits, 1.5 inches; Anthony Schwarz, northwest of Okarche, 1.6 inches with an additional report of 2.3 inches five miles west and one mile north of Kingfisher; Jeff Moss, one mile east of Kingfisher, 1.6 inches; Cashion Grain and Feed Elevator, two inches; Okarche Grain and Feed Elevator, eight miles west of Okarche, 1.75 inches; and Wheeler Brothers Grain at Omega, 1.4 inches.