If there’s one thing that we don’t have inside the corridors of the District, it’s large tracts of farmland. Considering that, you might not be aware that the Washington region is currently experiencing a drought. The Post reports that some sizable rainfalls yesterday around the region helped to reduce the deficit slightly: the weather station at Reagan National Airport measured 0.40 inches, which pushes the total precipitation for the year in D.C. to 6.5 inches. The normal amount of precipitation through 101 days is 10.46 inches. What’s this tell us? Well, for one, all those hullaballoed snowpocolypses this winter did little in terms of supplying the ground with water. Secondly, if April showers can’t somehow materialize from old rhymes into reality, then we all might be looking at another summer season like 2007, when many Southern Maryland farmers had a subpar harvest. That drought didn’t technically end until May 2008. If this, in any way, affects my enjoyment of corn on the cob this year, there will be consequences (as soon as I figure out a way to beat up clouds and the atmosphere). Anybody know any good rain dances?