How's The Weather By You?

Spring is making an early entrance in Sydney.
About 3 weeks early.
The magnolias and ornamental plums trees are in full bloom.

We had one or two cold days recently but today was very sunny and mild.
 
Thunder booming again as I write this. It has been a stormy week with plenty of rain. I love it.Much of the central U.S. is getting too much rain with much flooding but the rain hasn't been so heavy here.
 

Rkunsaw..I was wondering how you were faring this morning. Glad to hear you are okay there.

Anne..Also wondering about you there in Missouri..are you being affected by the heavy rain at all?

More rain and thunderstorms overnight and still going strong. The creek finally came over the bank last night, the first time since we moved in and excavated the creek three times to keep the water from the yard. There have been more than 10 inches of rain around northern Arkansas, and the ground is saturated. Everything now is just running off. Last night was the second night the Emergency Management called around 3:00 a.m., warning of flash flooding.

Ohno's Thunder Shirt is in the dryer after his morning walk around, so he's freaking out right now..sigh..guess I need a back up for him.

More rain predicted throughout the week.
 
Warrigal said:
Spring is making an early entrance in Sydney.
About 3 weeks early.
The magnolias and ornamental plums trees are in full bloom.

We had one or two cold days recently but today was very sunny and mild.
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Spring! My favorite time of year. Guess that means we'll be heading into Fall soon . . .
 
rkunsaw said:
Thunder booming again as I write this. It has been a stormy week with plenty of rain. I love it.Much of the central U.S. is getting too much rain with much flooding but the rain hasn't been so heavy here.
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Glad to hear you aren't in the flood zone. Seems to be no end to it...
 
TWHRider said:
While part of your state is ablaze yet again. Mr. TWH has a lifelong friend who lives on the other side of the hills from the Silver Fire that's roaring away. I know at my old age, I shouldn't be wide-eyed and open-mouthed about anything but this huge extreme in weather the Continental U.S. is experiencing is unbelievable.

Pretty soon "Caldifornia" (as my friend's grand daughter used to call it) won't have anything left but beach front and if you wait long enough a Tsunami will come along and take care of that before Little Miss San Andrea's at Fault gets the chance:(

It's about 3:00 PM Central and our dew point is in the 70's, so that means the air is not oppressive, it's OPPRESSIVE.
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Data the US National Interagency Fire Centre (http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm) appears to indicate that US forest fires in 2013 (year-to-date) are the lowest in number and second lowest in area burnt ** in the last ten years. That does not appear to accord with what is being reported in the media.

** little consolation to someone whose house is lost to fire.
 
rkunsaw said:
We're 'sposed to be rain free today and tomorrow with the next bout of rain coming tomorrow night and Tuesday.

Wettest July and so far August I can remember.
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Same here, rkunsaw. Several little towns have experienced flooding that normally do not. Big damage in some places. A brand new Walmart in Cortland has two feet of water in it. Maybe the merchandise will float back to China.
 
Yeah, TWH, every year with the fires followed by mudslides I wonder what's left. When I was in the service, the guys loved to rag on us "Caldifornians" (just jealousy . . . ) and laugh that it was going to fall in the sea. I just said I was goin' home and gonna go with it. So far . . . so good ...
 
More rain predicted for this evening and then we should be out of it. Here are before and after pics of the creek in about the same spot. You can see the opposite bank has disappeared. Thankfully the far side of the creek has a lower bank, and it took the brunt of the water, although we did get water 10 feet up in the yard in a couple of spots. No damage other than a bunch of limb debris that washed up. The after pic was taken two days ago.
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Yeah, it's kind of hazy here too, they must be burning off a 'crop' up in the hills.

Can't smell smoke though. It used to get like this before a cyclone back when weather was still predictable but no sign of one brewing so we'll have to write it off to smoke or 'strange'. We could do with some rain though, dry as old sticks here and don't want to have to water the 3 surviving plants in my 'garden'.
 
Ozarkgal said:
More rain predicted for this evening and then we should be out of it. Here are before and after pics of the creek in about the same spot. You can see the opposite bank has disappeared. Thankfully the far side of the creek has a lower bank, and it took the brunt of the water, although we did get water 10 feet up in the yard in a couple of spots. No damage other than a bunch of limb debris that washed up. The after pic was taken two days ago.
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Holy Cow!!! I hope the water has gone down.

Day started out raining, then sunny, then raining and now it is just drab. Foggy on the coast....
 
Beautiful day here , let's hope they don't burn anymore crops as my bedroom was so full of smoke i couldn't sleep there, my windows obviously haven't got good seals
 

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