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| Liz and Peg 2015 In the Cellar |
I can't recall any recent years where every single ten-day forecast shows thunder storms every day but maybe one or two. Not that this isn't the time for thunderstorms, but five or six a week seems excessive. I don't know how the farmers are getting any dry hay. A single day without rain is rare, let alone three consecutive ones.
Last evening we were all in the house doing stuff and talking when my phone started screaming...a tornado warning.
The ominous edge of the front
We scurried around getting dogs in, moving the car away from trees, and getting ready to hit the cellar if we needed to. Liz and I spent the next hour checking the sky for the wrong kind of cloud formation. The cellar is not a place we want to go if we don't have to. The birds all went silent....
Storm bird
We got some vicious winds and green skies, a bit of the now all-too-familiar torrential rain, but not much that hasn't come with every storm since the beginning of June. I guess other places saw much worse with trees down and at least one house hit by lightning, probably two, but we were okay.
I know complaining about the weather is about as productive as trying to teach a chicken to line dance, but dang, it's getting ridiculous!
I don't LIKE the cellar and I don't want to go there!
On the other hand it is a lot cooler today.
A captive tornado at the Fonda Fair Model Railroad
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Oh those green clouds, we have seen them here too this summer. Thunderstorms aplenty too, usually 3 or 4 a week. I am waiting for haying weather too, probably into August now for my hay guy.
ReplyDeleteWeather extremes seem to be the new normal. I feel your pain at the other end of the spectrum. We were at a category 4 (with 5 being the most severe drought) before we got some blessed rain this week! Holding onto hope for a late second crop. Regardless, we have to buy hay for the first time since we started growing our own (2016).
ReplyDeleteHope you are able to go birding between the rain drops! The quackers are probably loving your weather.
Shirley, it has been a crazy year for sure. We have had at least three pop-up storms today and more to come tonight. There have already been too many barn fires around here between lightning and maybe questionable hay
ReplyDeleteAurora, wish we could send you some of this! It rains several times almost every day.
You folks are having THE RAIN and we are in need of rain. Terry is going to cut alfalfa this week...I hope the rain waits for awhile. Yes, I know, I am never satisfied.
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