digitS'
Garden Master
picked up .75" says @Lickbranchfarm . Probably a good thing. I'm running sprinklers today and trying to put that amount on the garden and lawn.
I have lived on the northern California coast. Thunderstorms were not really common but rain, rain, rain would occur through 9 months with about 40", each year. Thunderstorms were more common in my childhood home between the Cascades and Coast Mountains in southern Oregon. Travels: I've seen some Gulf Coast rainstorms that were torrential. The American Southwest has interesting terrain because that arid country is marked by water erosion in a dramatic way. I've been there during the monsoon seasons but have completely missed any real storm activity.
The WS is warning about the possibility of local flooding ... I imagine that others elsewhere in North America would smile about the predictions of mud across roadways from something in excess of .25" which is about the most of what can be hoped for. We'll see.
" Hope for " is right. I was talking to a central Washington farmer, Tuesday. He said that a recent, 30 minute storm had brought him 1/2" of rain. "Good!" I said. He nodded.
Summer storms are just not likely to amount to much here. I wouldn't want to be in Tornado Alley, however. Nope.
digitS', Pacific Northwest
I have lived on the northern California coast. Thunderstorms were not really common but rain, rain, rain would occur through 9 months with about 40", each year. Thunderstorms were more common in my childhood home between the Cascades and Coast Mountains in southern Oregon. Travels: I've seen some Gulf Coast rainstorms that were torrential. The American Southwest has interesting terrain because that arid country is marked by water erosion in a dramatic way. I've been there during the monsoon seasons but have completely missed any real storm activity.
The WS is warning about the possibility of local flooding ... I imagine that others elsewhere in North America would smile about the predictions of mud across roadways from something in excess of .25" which is about the most of what can be hoped for. We'll see.
" Hope for " is right. I was talking to a central Washington farmer, Tuesday. He said that a recent, 30 minute storm had brought him 1/2" of rain. "Good!" I said. He nodded.
Summer storms are just not likely to amount to much here. I wouldn't want to be in Tornado Alley, however. Nope.
digitS', Pacific Northwest
Had several get struck by lightning one year, though. Looks like they will have fair weather this year.
. I managed to come out of my dozing in the lazyboy long enough to enjoy the view from the window before the rain stopped and I drifted off to sleep, again.
