And here we are at the end of this inundation: To you it may look like what amounts to just slightly less than 8.5 inches of rainfall collected between Friday morning and last night, but to me it’s sooooo much more. To you it’s but mere coincidence that I placed what turned out to be …
(click it for the heavily stylized bigger picture) I made the mistake of believing the worst of the storm had past this afternoon, and set out to take care of a truck errand on my lunch hour. Since the work on my Nissan was going to take about that amount of time I went for …
I know that many areas across Southern California have long reached the saturation point and there are a lot of bad things at risk of happening if the sky spills so much as another drop. Even so, I was expecting to wake up this morning to enough of a torrent for my collection cup to …
I only marked the porch-based precipitation quantification device to five inches and as you can see below, the amount collected since Friday morning has well surpassed that delineation upwards into the six-inch level. With the heaviest rain expected later today and tomorrow, I think we’ll see the beaker fully filled before these storms are through.
It’s not the easiest read, but as of a few minutes prior to posting this, the precipitation station I set up in front of the porch webcam has collected a representative sample of slightly more than three inches of rainfall since it was put in place Friday morning at roughly 9:45 a.m. Even less visible …
Ahhhh, rains the early morning of All Hallow’s Eve Eve have left bones all over the graveyard! Isn’t it lovely in the dark before the dawn!?
Me again, with the rough-stitched panorama. Funky weather we’re having, eh? The cloudcover’s been a nice filter for the blazing hot sun, but it got a bit hostile lateyesterday afternoon with lightning, thunder even a few drops through the oppressively muggy subtropical temperatures of an intensely liquid substance the weather people are on rare occasion …