whoze bin messin' wif da weather ?

[Frazz]

I think I'm gonna till in a truckload of manure this fall or next spring...That black primordial ooze is kind of a disapointment this year...

I can see El Stetto and crew out at the café one evening for a meal.  Family style restaurant.  The conversation waffles about the room as it does, where you can hear bits and pieces of a conversation.

All of a sudden at a table where 4 trucker guys are eating, a guy raises his voice just a wee bit and says " You know what?  That's just a load of bullsh**."  El Stetto's ears  perk up and tells his family to shush while he finds out about this load of ehhhh   manure.     Hey that ought to be a good story about stetto and his load of manure

[stetto]

Yah Ron, you funny too...

[zrct02]

Ah, I know what you mean by water falling from the sky now.  Some birds flew over and wet the driveway this morning.

[jetmex]

After lots of false starts, we finally got some rain Monday morning.  2 inches in about an hour.  It was raining so hard, the storm drains couldn't keep up and the water was up to the sidewalk in my front yard for a while.  And in town a few miles away, they didn't get a drop...

Now the humidity is up to about a thousand percent.

[Onepoint]

We have been particularity soggy, for us anyway. Had a couple showers over the past couple weeks that gave over well over an inch between them, but the humidity has been all the way up in the 30% to 50% area! 

Actually it has been feeling pretty damp, we even had fog and some drizzle until noon or so yesterday, which is really weird for July.  The weeds like it. 

[stetto]

Humidity, yeah...70-90% here. The basement floor has a layer of "wet" all over it, mostly because the AC's condensator tray can't keep up. I have a dehumidifier down there, tank fills to 3 gallons, and I'm emptying it twice a day.

...And we get a little rain once in a while too; 1/4 inch here, half inch there, while the weather experts continue to forecast "violent" thunderstorms with INCHES of rain.

[jetmex]

Eat yer hearts out, fellers.  It rained yesterday, it's raining now, supposed to rain tomorrow, too.

Now I'm going to have to mow the damn grass again.

[stetto]

Oh, it's raining now, a light sprinkle that's hitting the ground and immediately evaporating into the 90+ degree, 70% air...


Ugh...

[Onepoint]

Yeah, we have had some of that as well, had a good thunderstorm dump over an inch in about 20 minutes, and then follow up the next 3 days with small showers, and even when not getting showers its been like living in the bayou, with humidity spiking up to 70 or 80% at night.  I had thought I lived in an arid region.   

[balsum fractus]

hey...it's summer again!!

[Onepoint]

Oh, so that's where it went!   We have had unrelenting 95+ degree days, with 50% or more humidity for 3 weeks or more. Then yesterday like a switch was thrown, its fall, 70s, kind of damp with afternoon fall type drizzly rain showers, and the feel and smell is completely different.

[stetto]

Ditto here, Honcho.

[balsum fractus]

mid to high 70's is a heatwave here....not a cloud in the forecast for the coming week........

[stetto]

They're calling for frost north of us tomorrow...They're usually off by a couple hundred miles. I'm going to have to spend some time in the 8th acre today...

[Onepoint]

Man when the pendulum swings back...

For 2 years we have really had no soaking rains, it would get cloudy, and maybe a little drizzly but not soak anything. we would get some storms now and then that would dump a lot fast and then move out, and that kept us going, but it was dry down deep.   Now this summer, or  I should day since the end of August we have had regular thunderstorms every 3-5 days, south of us in CO  they were complaining about how they have had none of that, though they had some gully washers mid summer.

Well a couple weeks ago like someone flipped a switch it changed, everyday it clouds up, humidity 50 to 80%, the last 5 days we have had some light soaking rains, maybe an inch or little more now over the last 5 days or so since its raining now. Temp fell from the mid to high 90s down to 70s and even 60s for highs.

And in CO? well you probably have seen the news.  I have seen the Poudre river over the banks before, but not like this. Its a river normally 50 yards across, in spring maybe 100, now in places its has spread out to a mile.  Everyone knew of the flood plain for it, even the 500 year flood plain etc, buts reaching beyond that even, pretty incredible.  The only bridge that remained open  was one they had built recently and raised to 20' above seasonal high water level, and the water is 4' below it they said. 

The Big Thompson river just south of the Poudre flash flooded pretty infamously in the mid 70s, we have a repeat with out the 20' wall of water going 30mph down the canyon, but the water marks crept up nearly as high, and the damage is similar to the houses along it etc.  Where it crosses the interstate is usually as slow flowing meandering stream, yesterday both rivers were bottle necking on the bridges enough they closed the interstate from WY down. 



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