Musings

It was windy all last evening, then the rain came in at something like 2am, still with the wind. I did not sleep well, but I did sleep. Sometime late morning the rain quit, and the sun even came out once or twice. We sure did need the rain, and I guess the wind assured that the rain got everywhere, including under the trees and on the were-wilty lilacs. Now it’s quiet again, but it wasn’t much of a work-day or a fun-day.

By the way, this is deer-trimmed mint…in bloom.

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We treated ourselves to smoked menominee. Thank you, fishy. Usually we get whitefish. The two species are cousins (and both in the salmon group). I was surprised that (today anyway) I liked the menominee better than the whitefish we had last time.

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This morning’s weather excitement…less scary than it looks.

Yesterday’s weather fun. We got a lot of green rain. I was oh kay.

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This ginger is meh this year; last year on this day I captured its showiness.

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

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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.)

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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.

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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!

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

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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