Musings

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

An hour after I made yesterday’s post, our power went out, then we had a fierce storm that didn’t last terribly long…thunder, lightning, rain. The power was out for about nine hours, but thankfully back on in time for coffee-making. By sunrise, it was all clear and sparkly out, although some of the now-tall grasses were wet and lodged. They perked up after the sun and wind dried them, and I managed to pull off two sessions with The Beast.

Posted at 9:13 PM | Comments Off on No kidding about changeable

Bee-pea. Not a petroleum company. [Pale blossom compared to our usual specimens….]

Another frustrating day of intermittent potential-rain, with almost no actual rainfall…but the threat was enough to keep me away from Beast-work beyond about fifteen minutes I got in before nine, halted by the strongest rain of the day (until now that is…the rain came in after I began typing—sheesh).

Although I think a bit of wind brought down many of these leaves, they were already compromised…I think from heat and desiccation. It’s a bad summer for many plants.

Posted at 8:34 PM | Comments Off on Changeable conditions

I never managed to get in my almost-an-hour with The Beast today. Weather was never permitting. Throughout the day, the predicted rain window was present, absent, moved, and returned. I didn’t want to get caught out in the field…not so much the rain, but lightning aversion was my focus. This was the threatening sky in the late afternoon.

And to top it all off, we never got enough rain to moisten even the flagstones. In essence, I got a slow Saturday without even trying.

Posted at 8:32 PM | 1 Comment »