It’s amazing when people actually wish for a weekend full of rain. But that’s what we’ve got facing us this weekend.

Rain fell this week throughout most of the readership area. Must be true: It’s been in all the papers. And that’s quite the change from a summer as dry as August cotton, which also suffered from this season’s drought.

This weekend’s rain — provided the weather forecasters are correct in their predictions of will do little to aid farmers, those who operate the massive industry of agriculture, although it might help get the ground wet enough to allow wheat to take hold.

But for the rest of us, the rain, which began in earnest Wednesday morning and continued off and on through at least Friday, was a scene for which many had been hoping. Grass was getting brown, gardens were withering, thick clouds of dust were building and those with wells that supplied drinking water worried those resources might be in jeopardy.

During the summer, when evening storms are routine, various locations were rained upon regularly. Others saw very little rain. This latest storm brought three inches or more to most of the area.

It won’t cure the drought disaster

and it won’t allow farmers to recoup their losses but it sure was a pleasure to see, once again.