While farmers are praying for rain, wineries are hoping for the dry weather to keep up until they finish the harvest for the year.

“Droughts are actually better for grapes,” said Richard Seibert, president of the Maryland Wineries Association and owner of Knob Hall Winery, just outside Hagerstown, Md. “A severe drought will lessen the water content of a grape. In doing that, the sugar content goes up … what we call a ‘California yield.'”