When I was a young ‘un(...maybe 40 years ago or so?) I was camping with my family somewhere in Maine. As a diversion we went to visit Colby College and were in a museum there. A decent thunderstorm rolled through and we saw a massive bolt strike a big pine right near us. Blew bark and branches for yards around. Best strike I have ever witnessed. For years I kept a piece of the bark. It’s gone now...
Nice running into Greenfield Hippy at the People’s Pint. Great food, and really good beer (Thank Chris! You really didn’t have to. I tipped well and bought some take home treats).
Ran into a few stray showers on the ride home. Unexpected.
Like Tip said, chance of a heat wave next week, but a lot could screw that’s up.
Strangely when we were on our morning walk we encountered zero deer flies. Have not seen any Japanese beetles either (for the season) Very few gypsy moth caterpillars.
Odd bug year so far.
Baked ground won’t absorb as well? In desert storms, flash floods can happen with very small rainfalls...not that I expect any flash flooding in SNE from these
Insane number of rabbits and chipmunks in my neighborhood right now. I expect the population of hawks, owls, foxes, fishers, coyotes, etc. to get a nice bump.
Lots of available food.
Still very humid. Started to walk the dog (radar looked ok), about 10 minutes in the saturated atmosphere gave up and it started pouring big fat tropical drops.
Should be able to shut em off later today/evening