What's the weather like where you are?

[dontpanicbobby]

OT: Not that bad.
I've seen all this before.

 

[lunatic59]

I think we get 4" of rain that then immediately evaporates and hangs around as heavy, uncomfortable air until it again gets wrung out onto the ground.

If I wanted to live in a tropical rain forest, I'd move to East Texas!

 

[olbriar]

I was going to report my weather but I now see I have no weather when compared to the East coast. You guys seem to have a monopoly on the weather lately. WoW!

 

[Clementine_3]

got 2.5" and Schuylkill county looks like this

One of our big rains (don't recall which one) turned a lot of places into lakes like that. I got a lot of rain but no standing water/floods but only a mile or so away from me had sunken cars like that picture. It's crazy how that works.

 

[lunatic59]

It has been like this for almost 4 weeks now ...

At least we get one day to cut the swampy, bug-infested grass/weed mix.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Are your thunderstorms really, really loud and really, really long? @lunatic59

 

[lunatic59]

Sorry, it must have been that breakfast burrito.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Sorry, it must have been that breakfast burrito.

OT: Man Down Under

 

[lunatic59]

To answer your question (seriously) @dontpanicbobby, we were commenting on this the other day. We haven't really had much thunder or lightning. A lot of heavy rain, and more heavy rain after that, but little wind, no hail and only a rumble here and there. It's pretty much as how @Unforgiven described it ... wring out the moisture in the air, evaporate it back into circulation, rinse and repeat.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Yeah. Sounds like Florida.
Back when i was in grade school in Boston; Thunder and Lightning bounced off of 8 story high buildings and rolled through the valleys of our miniscule hills and dales in my city
I miss that.
I live on a hill now.

 

[Dngrsone]

When I was growing up in Florida, I could set my watch by the afternoon showers. We often had some spectacular lightning storms, of course, and many an afternoon/evening was spent on the front porch watching the fireworks.

Storms coming in from the South were especially fine-- the clouds were and angry green color and we knew we were in for a fine show and torrential rains.

On the opposite side, thunderstorms in California are much rarer, not nearly as entertaining (nor torrential, but it's happened), but when you live in a valley surrounded by mile-high mountains, the thunder echoes make for an interesting background aesthetic, particularly when your skies are clear, but there's this pervasive rumbling coming from everywhere...


I just got back from a mini-vaca down Ventura-way-- it was only in the mid-90s, breezy, and of course humid (we had a small beach mostly to ourselves to watch a pod a of dolphin play just outside the surf-line... oh and one kinda creepy-looking seal eyeballing the girls in their bikinis) which still felt cooler than the hundred-teens we'd been suffering under for the past month-plus.

Now, returning to the desert, I am happy to note that the under-triple-digits will last for a few more days, though that is tempered (or perhaps enabled by) the pall of smoke being blown in from the fires on the other side of the mountains up and down the range.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I've never experienced real desert. There have always been trees near me. Shade and such.
I'd like to try Nevads fpr a few days.

 

[Unforgiven]

I've never experienced real desert. There have always been trees near me. Shade and such.
I'd like to try Nevads fpr a few days.

There is a desert in Maine, much closer.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Not even close to Nevada deserts.
Those aren't sand dunes.

 

[Dngrsone]

"That's no dune. That's a--" oops, wrong thread.

I'm sure you'll be done with Nevada deserts with one day, LOL.

 

[lunatic59]

According to the garden rain gauge, we got 4.5" this morning. Good thing we didn't get any more, the gauge only goes to 5". The afternoon was rather quiet and the sun even peeked out several times.

Flood warnings are up for a few creeks and rivers as they crest overnight, but nothing too near to the house, so we're good. Then we start this all over again tomorrow with more storms forecast.

 

[Clementine_3]

Oh look! A flash flood watch 'til midnight.

 

[lunatic59]

As predicted, the Schuylkill River (pronounced [skoo-kill]) left it's banks overnight.

At least they've reduced the possibility for more heavy rain today. Still a chance, but not as likely ... so they say.

 

[Clementine_3]

Yikes

 

[Unforgiven]

Well, for the first time in weeks it is bright and sunny, though I can't see much but a blurry image out my window since the three inches of rain I just got in the last 30 minutes is all clogged up in the screen.

 

[Dngrsone]

So, this is my view during my daily commute:

There's a young Joshua tree near the center of the picture. Otherwise, it's mostly tumbleweed, creosote, and garbage.

When the picture was taken (yesterday), it was only 102° F and something like 20% humidity. With a little smoke drifting over the mountains from the west.

 

[PhilipX20]

Still hot, really hot. I do wish it'd magically turn freezing cold and rain.

 

[Clementine_3]

Incoming! Thunder in the distance and they've scheduled storms.

 

[lunatic59]

Heavy storms right now. I've got a dog glued to my ankles. More flash flood warnings ... I am looking forward to blizzards!

 

[lunatic59]

Only one heavy downpour on Saturday, but this morning we had several hours of steady rain and it's still drizzling. Pretty chilly, too for August at 70°F. I just checked the USGS stream flow reports for today and it looks like everything east of the Allegheny's are at 90%-100%.