gravitylover

.01 here, .03 2 miles south and nothing 3 miles north. It's been wet though with thick fog yesterday and this morning mixed with unmeasurable mist and light drizzle so it's wet but not really, it's dry under the trees still. Another miss...

Yeah I try not to ride when it's wet because when I do I seem to wreck and it never ends up good. After 2 1/2 wet years there is a lot of moss and lichen covering the rocks and it gets super slippery when it's even just a little bit wet. When I have a chance to think about it my risk tolerance is way down lately, unfortunately I seem to still ride like I used to when I'm in that brain shut down mode when I'm in the thick of it. Heal up quick. Nice and wet out there this morning but the ground is nearly dry under the trees again so part of my garden has been nicely watered this week but the other half is dry and dusty, so strange that it's so different 20 feet apart. I harvested turnips today after planting them 5 weeks ago and they were huge, what should have taken 60 days took less than 40. String beans are doing well, peppers are doing great, lettuce is slow as are carrots but herbs are going nuts and tomatoes I planted from seed at the beginning of August are 2 feet tall and starting to flower. It also looks like I'll end up with a nice second potato harvest. All in all a successful second round out of the garden so I think I"m going to try planting some more stuff just to see what happens (seeds are cheap), if the real cold holds off until mid November I may even get a third round in which would be really cool after getting such a late start.

I don't know if there are more of them but they are more aggressive this year than they used to be. I can't go out in the driveway wearing shorts after the sun goes behind the trees in the late afternoon without getting thoroughly chowed on and my wife has been getting so bitten up when we do things that we both have taken to wearing jeans from about 4pm on no matter what the temps are.

I could see significantly denser clouds to my north from those showers. They did spill over somewhat and were pushing quite cooler air as that happened but it was momentary and fleeting. If you're more sensitive to the details in times of more passive weather it can still be plenty active, this was one of those times.

Heh. I was just thinking the other day that some people have their lives documented in photos after a couple of posts on Fb and I realized I went years where nobody took my picture unless I was visiting my parents. I had a nice camera for a while and mostly took scenics, the few pics I took when I was doing things were in the bag when the thing melted in a house fire. There's a 13 year period that I have almost no pictures of. Yup, nearly perfect day. Looks like we have a few more coming up.

Oops, I just realized that's 10 years off, it was 1987. Sloppy thumb typing

Massive vertical relief does it every time. From Denver up to the tunnel is nearly 7k feet and the ridges are another ~2k up from there. It's even more dramatic in California, try from Death Valley up to the ridge along Mt Whitney where it's over 14k or from Weed (on I5) looking up to the top of Shasta where it's over 12k. I think the best I've seen is from the water to the top of Mt St Elias in AK where you're looking up over 19k but it's over a much longer distance.

I was in Denver one day in August 1997 and it was 109* near downtown. A little over an hour later and about 60 miles away it was 26* and snowing heavily as a cold front was dropping into the area. I left the city wearing shorts, no shirt and barefoot with the sunroof out of the car. As I drove along I had to close the windows and turn the heat on, then it was time to put on some shoes but all I had with me was sandals. When the snow turned from spits and fits to heavy snow I stopped next to an overhanging rock to put the roof back in and grab a jacket out of the trunk and there was 3" of snow on the ground. Another 15 miles west and it was 85* again and I was way overdressed. I love that place

It drizzled for a minute here, not even enough to wet the ground under the trees.

It's hard to know what I actually got overnight, local stations range from .08 on my street to ~.6 at a station within 2 miles. Now there are a whole bunch of them within a couple of miles, some just a block or two apart and they all have different numbers. I know that it was a steady rain for a while, it seemed like it should have been more than a tenth but not more than a quarter. Anyway, yeah, damp but plants that were stressed aren't anymore and are progressing on a more normal autumn course.

With how challenging life has been this year I'd be fine with this. I sure won't mind if my garden keeps producing for another two and a half months.

I posted earlier in this thread about being in the vicinity of this cell and watching it get its act together. This was one of the most impressive cells I've seen in this area for a while, I'm not surprised it blew up like this.

It didn't miss completely, I got another .04 bringing it to .31 for the day. Weekly total of 1.14", add that to the inch and a half the week before and I'm just over 7" since the end of May. Soil moisture is good the first few inches but rock hard and dry below that.

.27 on the day and it looks like I'll split the goalposts on the line sinking south so that's probably it. With the rain at the beginning of the week I barely broke 1". Heckuva way to break an 11 week drought.

Looks like I slid through the lightest rainfall area with the batch this morning but the next round is incoming and is aimed right at me. I guess another inch or so will only do good things for the well so bring it on.

Well that was fun, .25" in 10 minutes. It's lighter again but still coming down at a good clip.

Very heavy rain now, gutters are overflowing and the driveways across the street have water running down them like a waterfall.

I thought today was pretty nice actually. Ehh... @Hitman my 3-4k is probably light, I forgot that I need a new breaker box too. That and the permit which costs $1k and a whole bunch of time from a contractor on the approved list that the town building dept keeps. My neighbor got a pretty nice whole house Generac that cost him $3k. The whole job cost a bit over $10k! This town is so fkd up...

I was in Danbury and Brookfield as that cell slid by to the north. That was one of the more dramatic storms I've watched this year, it was black and the clouds were bubbling and rolling and the wall of rain falling out of it was impressive. Where I was barely even got wet until later so I could sit and watch the show.

Wow. I had almost no wind at all but there's quite a bit of reported wind damage right in my area. I forgot to report the small hail I got yesterday, it only went for about 5 minutes and the stones were not even dime sized but the put a hurt on some of the broad leaf plants in my garden.

I'm curious what the estimate was. The $3-4,000 it would cost me for just a plug is outrageous so I backfeed.

.84 total for the day including the morning line of rain, highest wind gust was under 20mph.

Up to .8, looks like another round incoming.

I'm at .52 after two rounds of heavy rain.

Had another 5 minute downpour that put down another tenth so I'm at .52 on the day (so far). No wind with the second round.