Musings

Unexpected…we had a windy phase without rain. Fortuately, no trees fell near us…and our power persisted.

Posted at 9:56 PM | Comments Off on Lucky again

After wind, lightning, and rain came through at evening rush hour, things became just humid, and I went to book club. We never lost power; plenty of households have around the area since this morning. ( Here’s my neighbors’ dining room light—call it architectural detail.)

Posted at 9:30 PM | Comments Off on Lucky today

MaNachur raised our lagging rainfall average today. I don’t know if we got the predicted almost-an-inch, but we had lots of rain minutes…for the most part without wind and storminess…yay.

Posted at 10:34 PM | Comments Off on (Mostly) Happy precip

Our day was the usual hot and humid, then the humidity became rain, and the temperature moderated to a mere 80°F. We might see a low of 75°F overnight. Yay!

Posted at 8:50 PM | Comments Off on Still, it’s hot & humid

I think we’re through the last of the waves of weather, the rainy and windy kind, for a while.

Posted at 8:15 PM | 1 Comment »

Rain overnight filled this tree-pond. Then we had a weather-normal(ish) day (hot, humid). Those storms took out power lotsa places, but not here (knock on wood). They also brought down tree parts. The largest branch I saw down was in the street a few houses away, and the city crew was cleaning it up by 8:10am. Whew.

Now, we’re having rain again as a front came through and is still dragging the precip along. My phone beeped with a flooding alert, but it won’t get to our house. Behind this mess, we’re supposed to get cool(ish) temps and lower humidity. I can hardly wait.

Posted at 9:17 PM | Comments Off on Weather dynamics

When the sky darkens at 6:20 in the evening in the summer, get worried. That’s how I look at it. And the darkening preceded a storm front, as you might expect. The front came through with blasts of wind, and kept going, with the wind fading, then some rain, then ho-hum.

And I exhaled. All is well again.

Posted at 8:47 PM | Comments Off on Sequence

The predicted overnight rain never materialized, but the air shifted and the AQ improved…so I went for a wee walk, returning before seven (!), because hot. humid.

Plenty of neighborhood water systems nevertheless kicked on…in this case weighing down these limp grasses. Are they grasses? They look like it.

Posted at 8:17 PM | Comments Off on I feel good

Air Quality was poor today, with high haze. I stayed inside and felt…a bit guilty…but healthy (hah!). A storm’s supposed to come through tonight and into the morning, and disperse the haze.

I have a short-term perspective on this. Exercise tomorrow? Wait and see….

Posted at 8:35 PM | Comments Off on AQI discussion

All day the clouds put on a show, even more than the sun. Mostly full cloud cover now.

Posted at 8:13 PM | Comments Off on Good show