in July!
Ok, I have to say –
I’m really tired of the rain now.
Yesterday was, yet again, overcast and threatening rain. By mid-afternoon the thunder started off in
the distance.
And in no time, it
was right on top of us with lots of lightening and big booming, cracks of
thunder – loud enough to shake the windows.
It had been raining for a while but when the big thunder and lightning
arrived, so did the serious rain. Not
the soothing, soak in, restful rain.
Nope – a downpour of water. The
horror movie kind of rain. The kind that
makes you check the ceilings to make sure it hadn’t broken holes in the roof. At one point during the rain, I heard sirens
and, I watched as (I expect) every vehicle in our fire department raced off
down the street.
The heavy rain
lasted quite a while and when it let up (note – not stopped, just wasn’t
raining as hard), there was a lake across the street. My backyard was several inches deep in
water. And, then the strangest thing
happened – the outside turned a dirty mustard yellow. Stayed that way for quite a while. It was rather unnerving. I started to wonder if we were going to see
monsters or space ships flying in the skies.
I walked out a couple of times just to make sure. Nope ….. according to NOAA.gov
Most thunderstorms occur in the late afternoon.
By this time of day, the sun is beginning to set. The orange hue is caused by
the same process that causes the vivid colors at sunsets. Shorter wavelengths
of light (blue) are scattered quickly, leaving only the yellow-orange-red end
of the spectrum.
Well, ok but there
still might be monsters.
First thing this
morning I checked the rain gauge. Mine
will measure a max of 5 inches – full to the top. My sister estimates it was well over 7
inches of rain yesterday afternoon. That’s as much as Phoenix, AZ gets in a
year! And the weather channel is
predicting a 50-60% chance of thunder storms through the weekend and then it’s
just going to be overcast. Sigh.
I walked outside
this morning – everything is wet, really, really wet but no standing water
anywhere. The lake across the street has
drained off to the river. All my plants
look fine and, joy of joys – all the weeds jumped up at least 3 inches since I mowed
on Monday. Double Sigh.
27 Feb 2019
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