Heavy rain ihas ruined crops in North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.(Creative Commons)

While the national rainfall is up 6 percent this year, the Carolinas is up 25 percent, Georgia is up 34 percent and Alabama is up 22 percent, reports The Daily Beast.

The rainfall has drowned plants and swollen other produce to the point where it splits open or doesn't have any flavor.

The New York Times reported:

The tomatoes in Tennessee are splitting. Tobacco in North Carolina is drowning. And watermelons, which seem as if they would like all the rain that has soaked the South, have taken perhaps the biggest hit of all.

Some watermelon farmers in South Georgia say they have lost half their crop. The melons that did survive are not anywhere as good as a Southern watermelon ought to be.

“They are awful,” said Daisha Frost, 39, who works in Decatur, Ga. “And this is the time of year when they should be the bomb.”

Last year, the region was abnormally dry, making the rain particularly shocking.

Excess water has made cornfields look like rice paddies, often filled with mold and stalks that have fallen over. Many are concerned that the rain will bring out a fungus often called scab disease.

Despite the downsides, there are a few pluses such as the cost of irrigation being down, according to the New York Times.

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