I think I have forgotten what it looks like but there is this water like substance, I think it may be actual water, falling from somewhere high, perhaps clouds?
Anyone else in my area able to confirm this is in fact rain?
Oh if you are unaware, we haven't had rain in over a month all the while mostly 100+ temps.
Still raining pretty good, so far a half an inch.....okay so an hour later we are past one inch! I would probably dance naked in it but my neighbors already think I am strange!
My older daughter was going on and on and on about global warming. Something I agree is happening but I don't think it is as serious as some think. She thinks it is very serious!! I keep wanting to text her that this is god's sign she is wrong but I think the humor will be lost in translation. :p
Riley, Troy has brought it to my attention that you are in fact the rain expert. He also pointed out that your hops grow better than ours because of this. Interesting....
I am getting the feeling Portland is the London of the US?
Christine was saying we don't get rain anymore, the rain is gone!! I said have you looked at China? they have our rain!
Jenna, that is kind of where we were at. Like 50% chance on Thursday, nothing. Today was like don't hold your breath 10% and it has been raining for a couple hours. Granted we have only got about a half an inch but I will take it! I use my pool as a rain gauge. :)
Suzanne, you should have seen our garden last week. Thankfully we have drip irrigation so the plants are fine but Genna took a hose to it and all the water did was run into these huge cracks! Probably to the pits of hell which I am sure is where the heat is coming from.
Tell ya what... I'll fly down, we'll cook, and I'll give you my professional opinion. ;)
The Eskimos might not actually have 100 names for snow, but Seattlites DO have about 40 words for different types of rain!
what's that???? we haven't seen anything like that in a few weeks....
we miss a lot here - it seems that Obama's hot air (laugh people laugh!!) pushes the storm systems around us!!!
Ah yes, this is 'rainus all-too-familiarus', or at least that's how some Portlanders perceive it.
Too funny, J., esp. the idea of texting your daughter...
If you and Riley have the cookout, can I come too? I'll bring my Bogs and rain pants....and plenty of caffeine. That is the only antidote to endless rain and gray that I've yet to come up with.
Rain?!?! Why do you toy with my emotions, woman?
Hah! Welcome, to our summers J.! Months and months of 100+, no rain in sight. Oh, but do you have the humidity. The lovely high humidity makes it feel SO much hotter. So, it actually FEELS like 110. (When the temp isn't actually 110, like it's supposed to be some next week.) Oh, and the temperature never dips below the eighties at night. I complain, but I never move. I just don't know why.
I have a friend in Minneapolis, and she got on facebook the other day and was like, "Oh my god, it's going to be 98 tomorrow. I'm going to die." Made me chuckle. She WOULD die here. It doesn't get below the nineties until October here. I was wearing a t-shirt and flip flops last Christmas.
All we ever see is rain and I'm sick of it. It's raining right now.
I'm on the coast of the REAL northern California, not far from the Oregon border.
As soon as my son graduates high school next year, we're out of here.
This is the last summer I will spend having to run the heater because it's barely 60 degrees in July. Or August.
I drove through a 5 mile by about .5 mile stretch of rain on Friday. Weird, sun still out, no rain to be seen anywhere else on the Coast, but this odd little strip.
Most rain I have seen in a week.
I almost wanted to get out of the car and dance in it.
But, as long as you don't see a water hose being sprayed from your neighbor's roof - then you have rain.
It is so hot here on the Gulf that a little rain actually makes it feel worse as it just drives the humidity up and feels like the air is boiling.
Here, it was supposed to storm all week. So we have been avoiding walking to the big park (it takes an hour to walk one way...) because we didn't want to get rained out without a ride home... and we didn't even see a single drop. It barely even got cloudy.
Then yesterday, the forecast claimed that there was only a 15% chance of rain... Yahoo! Got everything all ready to go, aaaand, it starts raining. Hard. With thunder.
GRR! lol. Here's hoping that the weather behaves later today, when it cools off enough to try again!
ETA.. LOL BUG! I know exactly what you mean! Most of my friends and family live in the northwest... Last month all I saw on facebook was "OMG! I'm melting! This heat is killing me!" I was sitting here like "Really? It's 85`... Try coming down here where it got up to 108! THEN lets see you complain!"
Of course, I really prefer 2 months of incredibly hot, humid misery to 6 months of icy, freezing misery. lol!
we got stuck in it and had to pull over for an hour driving to the shore for a day trip. Darn it! super nice weather in the area we left...that is untilw e got back. the rain followed us!
This was our 20 minute conversation while stuck in the car(condensed=) )
Emmy: Mom when is it going to stop raining?!
M.: Emmy I'm not sure
Repeat that one thousand times
after last time
M.: Emmy I don't know everything I'm not the weatherman
Emmy: Mom I didnt know the weatherman knew everything is he like God?
yup guess I worded that wrong in my frustration=)
I'm so jealous! I finally threw in the towel with my garden...it's officially a loss! And my poor trees are all but screaming for a drink! Our area has had some rain, but for whatever reason, Mother Nature is punishing M. and my yard this year. The storms split and go right around M., with neighbors as close as a half mile away getting more than twice as much rain as I have. *sigh* I'm not sure what I did to tick her off, but she seems unwilling to accept my apology. :) Enjoy your rain, I know I would be out dancing naked in it!! (ah, the perks of living in the middle of nowhere!)
That's what I said last night when a storm rolled through and knocked out all of my internet services half way through a paper for my capstone course! UGH!!
I hope you guys are getting rain though - the news keeps talking about how hot this summer has been out your way! Enjoy it!
We are pretty jealous down here in Texas!
How much did you get? We got a few drops here the other day and it didn't even make a dent in anything and was gone. The cracks in the ground are worse and worse and not enough rain to make a difference. Maybe you got more there. I know China, England, etc. all have tons of rain and some flooding.
My daughter says "You're Welcome!" She said had she knowing that by leaving her 4H paint project out in the backyard it would have made it rain, she'd have done it sooner. Just east of MSP here.
We got some rain, too! My garden needed it. And it cooled things off for now.
Yes, 98 here in Minneapolis is excessive heat that usually comes with humidity and yes most of us will complain! But then, below zero temps don't faze us much. A typical summer here, in the past that is, would hit 100 once or maybe twice at most. Climate scientists have been predicting for years that Minnesota's summers would be like Saint Louis summers and that's now happened. Looking at the trends in heat and humidity over the last 60 years in our state shows a continuous upward climb.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/...
We can now plant things that we used to not be able to grow in MN because of our short growing season. Here is an illustration of the changes in the hardiness zone map from 1990 to 2006: http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm
That much change in just 16 year is serious, and frightening. I'm so glad that we have scientist actively working to develop new hybrids of crops that will grow in higher heat, lower moisture, longer growing seasons so that we have a chance of keeping our food supply at the same level despite the expected climate changes.
http://effinghamdailynews.com/local/x1841413450/Dont-call...
