Summer Rain

[godfry n. glad]

............................:rains:

I live in a region where it rains nearly eight full months out of the year. the other three come mostly in July to September, when it's warm, and usually dry (for the really anal, the rest of the clear days are spread out over the eight months, often as two weeks of clear, static inducing, sub-freezing weather). For several weeks now, Puddle City has enjoyed some excellent warm weather; indeed, where we usually have only two 90:degrees:F+ by this time in the year, we're now at eleven. Yesterday, the clouds appeared, slowly but surely, throughout the day. Today, it rains.

Temperatures have dropped from the upper 80:degrees:F down into the upper 50:degrees:F (30:degrees:C+ down to 15:degrees:C). It's refreshing. I'm enjoying it loads. The poor dried and cracked webs between my toes are getting relief.

:singrain:

[Sock Puppet]

I lived too long in San Francisco to ever consider 90:degrees:F+ weather "excellent." I wish the temps here in the East Bay were a bit lower in summer, and I do envy your rain at the moment. Today is an unseasonably cool day, at least, but the rotten high-pressure will be building back up by tomorrow. :sweaty:

[godfry n. glad]

Well, having lived here for near 50 years now, I consider anything over 70:degrees:F to be "warm" and anything over 75:degrees:F to be "oppressive".

Hey...At least you're not in Fresno.

[Sock Puppet]

Praised be my employer for that. Fresno ... :bleh:

[Puck]

Ugh, send some of that rain this-a-way, would ya?

It's drier than a pop-corn fart here.

[godfry n. glad]

Praised be my employer for that. Fresno ... :bleh:

Heh...A friend of mine, a local boy, married a Californian. From Fresno. So, now, every Independence Day he goes to Fresno to "enjoy the weather for a long weekend" with his in-laws (whom he actually likes). He calls it his annual trip to hell.

[Legs]

You have webbed feet? :blink:

[godfry n. glad]

You have webbed feet? :blink:

:giggle:

:ROR:

[Crumb]

Doesn't everyone?

[Plant Woman]

Webbed fingers and toes is pretty normal in the Pacific Northwest, don't you know?

:ducky:

[PamelaMe]

I like the climate in your hometown......cuz it seems there dont have a fierce hot day or fierce cold day around the year!~

Im living a city where's very hot while very cold in winter!!

[Puck]

Wheeeee Heeeeee! We had a nice little shower today. Thank you, godfry!

[godfry n. glad]

My pleasure, Puck.

PamelaMe...Welcome!... :wave: ...You are not in Turpan, are you?

[Sauron]

Well, having lived here for near 50 years now, I consider anything over 70:degrees:F to be "warm" and anything over 75:degrees:F to be "oppressive".


Damn right.

"Pacific Northwest" is an Indian term meaning "God's air conditioning".

- Sauron, who is rejuvenating his webbed feet after 18 months on the hot,muggy, nasty, east coast.

[Crumb]

They look good on you, Sauron. :wink:

[pescifish]

t's drier than a pop-corn fart here.:giggle:

[Annie]

Well, having lived here for near 50 years now, I consider anything over 70:degrees:F to be "warm" and anything over 75:degrees:F to be "oppressive".

Lived here in WA. since '80. And I agree with what you said.

Damn right.

"Pacific Northwest" is an Indian term meaning "God's air conditioning".

- Sauron, who is rejuvenating his webbed feet after 18 months on the hot, muggy, nasty, east coast.

Did you just make that up, on the spot?

[ImGod]

We're 5 inches down on rain so far this year after being up by 3 inches in the spring.

When rain comes, it comes hard and fast, then moves on. Last week we had 1 inch of rain in 30 minutes then it cleared off before we got another 1/2 inch later that night. It got pitch black outside at 3:30 in the afternoon, but you could see by the lightning. It's easy to see the rain coming. It usually looks like this (the bottom two are from the storm last week);

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/Grand+Island+430+3.jpg
http://www.ketv.com/2006/0713/9515213.jpg
http://www.ketv.com/2006/0713/9514875_400X300.jpg

They are forcasting 100 to 103 F tomorrow and then another round of storms and mid to upper 80s this weekend.

[godfry n. glad]

That sounds like what we call a "gullywasher" around these parts. It rarely rains like that around here. I saw it in central Pennsylvania, though.

Here, rain is usually a soft drizzle that goes on for hours. 1/2" - 3/4" in 24 hours is a lot. Thunder and lightening is rare, and when we do have it, it might not rain at all.

[ImGod]

Double post.

[ImGod]

The drops in a summer thunderstorm can be rather large. This was the visability downtown last week.

http://www.ketv.com/2006/0713/9514322.jpg

If it's windy enough they turn to hail.

I like the cool weather much better than the heat. I'd rather it be 10-20 F than 100 F. Of course, sunny and clear with a high of 75-80 is the best.