magpiemaniac

Just had a 50 MPH gust. Lights are flickering.

That’s a mean looking line. Hope you miss it. I’m about 15 miles south of you. Looks like it’ll dodge me.

The larger trees in my neighborhood we’re still fairly green. The leaves went from green to gone. (Small and medium trees had good color.)

Winds are picking up here. Gusts in the mid-40s. Since yesterday, 0.7” in the gauge. 5.1” of rain for October.

I won’t name names, but some television meteorologists are so insufferably annoying to watch.

The pundits tell us that this La Niña doesn’t bode well for a good winter in the southeast, but don’t forget 2017-18 while we were smack in the middle of the last one. We managed several good storms then. February was pretty quite, but January and February gave us some nice snows. So bring on the La Niña. We’ll manage.

It’s 70 miles from Sandy Ridge to Seagrove. We’ve seen significant temperature differences in the same day between northern Stokes and southern Randolph.

When it’s all done, reality ends up being the opposite of what the so-called experts predict, so I’d like to see predictions for a torching winter.

Now that we’re in the “-ber” months, I’m itching for some good winter weather discussion.

Hallelujah! Finally getting a nice thunderstorm. First good rain IMBY since July 10. Looks like it’s lined up to last an hour or so.

How’s everyone’s electric bill this month? Mine is horrific.

A month ago (mid-June), I had an afternoon high of 59. It’s currently 93.

During all that rain earlier this year, I mentioned that we shouldn’t complain because we won’t be able to buy a drop by the middle of July. My most recent rain totals IMBY for July: July 17: 0.05” July 10: 0.70” July 8: 0.50” That’s it. Just 1.25” total for the month. I’ve cut down my sprinkler output. I use sprinklers to supplement nature rain. My well shouldn’t have to carry the load. We need some tropical action.

I read that DH was progressing well and would likely be ready by then.

The abrupt end to the NHL season has sort of left a “what if” feeling for me. I was growing confident that the Canes could at least earn a wildcard and then who knows what else. Ugh. I’m not optimistic that the 2019-2020 season will be resumed. And based on articles I’ve been reading, there are questions about if and how fans would be admitted into arenas and stadiums for the upcoming fall hockey and football seasons. I won’t take the simple pleasures for granted anymore.

I’m so bored lately that I’m finding myself pretty excited about the prospects of an unusually rainy week. I don’t mind 4”-5” of rain over several days. I just don’t want it all at once.

The last measurable rain I had IMBY was 0.1” on May 5. (Before that was 1.7” on April 30.) I’m reluctant to waste my well on stupid grass, but I did run the sprinklers early yesterday.

Update...

Yes, there are several providing some good information. And there are a few wasting electrons.

I assume you don’t visit the Southeastern forum during one of our (increasingly rare) winter storm threads.

The April 19th Severe Event thread is full of interlopers I’ve never seen before. It’s the weather equivalent to rubbernecking. I appreciate the insight from several of them. Others, not so much.

So another mild and wet winter? Yippee. Same song; fourth verse.

There’s something sort of sickening when people are almost cheering for catastrophic weather in others’ backyards just for the rubbernecking novelty of it. WTF is wrong with people? This planet has had enough crap to deal with lately. Don’t be bummed out if your tornadocalypse doesn’t pan out like you had hoped.

The covid-19 thread in the Off Topic forum disappeared. Did that thread get too rowdy while I was away? With all this leisure time, I’ve been reading and watching more news and interviews. (Kill me.) Several things I’ve noticed especially among people in their 20s and 30s: ”Super” is being used excessively as an adverb. People are now “super excited” or something is now considered “super easy”. Please stop this madness. “New normal.” Ugh. New normal is yesterday’s “seeking closure”. Inability to annunciate some T sounds in words like important or mountains. I’m hearing a lot of “em-poor-uhn” or “mao-uhns”.