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I had to smirk last weekend when I put five gallons of gasoline into my 5 gallon lawn mower gas can for the price that would once fill up my car.
Time to get that Segway. Or that scooter I’ve been meaning to buy. Biking to work in 100 degree weather isn’t that appealing.
Yesterday must have been a particularly hot morning. My thermal signature was so large I registered a record five bells on the MT.Net Stinkometer.
(In actuality, yesterday was a fairly nice day, in spite of my concerns).
Up until Friday we’ve been enjoying a wonderfully seasonal spring: with low humidity, highs in the upper 70s, and lows delightfully in the 50s. That changed Friday morning when summer arrived with a jolt. High temperatures are now in the 90s, humidity levels top 45%, and the joy of being outside that was once abundant is now a distant memory.
I suppose all good things must come to an end, but I was really enjoying having a normal spring for once. It seems that for so many years we would go from too cool directly to too hot. At least this spring we had several weeks of perfect weather.
I guess can’t be surprised since the year is almost halfway over already. Summer is here now, ready or not!
It will continue to rain heavily every other day. That is, until I finally get around to collecting rainwater again. This is similar to having it rain right after washing one’s car.
There’s something quite soothing after a storm. Its not simply that its no longer raining, or that its just like it was before the storm. A storm reorders things somehow. It fixes something we may not have even noticed was broken.
I got the news Saturday that Falls Lake is now full again. In fact, its 1/10th of a foot above normal at 251.6 feet. The non-stop rain we got last week really pushed us over the top. Officials expect even more rain to trickle in and raise the level even further. We’ve sure come a long way from the Christmas Day reading ten feet lower than that.
Now we’re going back to the more lenient Stage 1 restrictions. It remains to be seen whether we’ve learned anything. Rampant development will continue again unabated and we’ll wind up facing the same dilemma again within three years. You watch.
We had a good, steady rain all day Friday. It did a world of good for our drought situation. The MT.Net weather station reports 1.86 inches fell Friday – amazing for 24 hours.
The Falls Lake water level jumped considerably from the rain as well. It is now just 2.6 feet below normal: a considerable jump from a low of 10 feet below normal at Christmas. Experts say that if it rains like a normal March the lake will be full by April! Then of course people will be itching to water their lawns again, no one will have learned anything, and we’ll empty that sucker out until the tropical storms arrive.
For now, let’s celebrate!
Wow. I went to bed around 10:30 last night thinking the severe storms had fizzled out. Boy, was I mistaken! From about 11 until the wee hours of the morning our house got absolutely battered! I don’t recall ever experiencing winds that strong from any storm that didn’t have a name. It was anything but a gentle rain! Things were made worse as the winds came from the south, right where our bedroom is.
The MT.Net weather station tells me we had a top gust of 20.6 MPH at 9:30 last night. Judging how my wind gauge is shielded significantly by the deck the gust was likely far stronger. Wow.
I remarked to Kelly how quiet the birds were this morning.
“Well, yeah!” she answered. “They got blown into Delaware!”
I got myself into a funk last week about the drought. I was thinking ahead to June or July when our Falls Lake water allocation is projected to run out and wondering how I’d feel and what I’d do when that finally happened. I was missing the good, soaking rains I was used to seeing. Where did they go?
Imagine my relief to hear sheets upon sheets of rain falling tonight: the good, steady rain I’d been missing so! I stood on the front porch, transfixed at the dancing raindrops. It was so beautiful!
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Humidity outside the office this morning: 100%.
Humidity inside the office this morning: 28%
This old building is a desert. You can’t touch anything without receiving a thunderbolt of static electricity. The two humidifiers I rounded up get emptied three times a day and never get the levels above 35%.
If I don’t come home one evening, please let my family know I’ve become mummified.
