[Magdalen] weather report...

[Grace Cangialosi]

And we didn't get any of that, although there was a "severe thunderstorm watch" earlier. I sometimes think the weather forecasters just throw darts at a board and call out whatever they hit! But there's a cloud cover tonight, so no chance to see the Venus-Jupiter confluence. It was beautiful last night, and I hope there will still be something to see tomorrow. One of my daughter's friends just came over with her two girls and their telescope, but all in vain.

> On Jun 30, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Living here in a valley between two sets of mountains, as I did in
> Tennessee, I'm accustomed to the "scattered afternoon thundershowers"
> pattern of summer days. Sometimes they hit you, sometimes they don't. We
> just had a veritable gully-washer/frog strangler. Many afternoons they pass
> north and/or south of us and we get all the sound effects and none of the
> rain. It's always a tossup. My dad would hate trying to predict them here
> as much as he did in Knoxville.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> Right now we're having a nice, gentle, "English" rain. However, my rain
>> gage has measured well over 8" (20cm) of rain this month, which they say is
>> the fourth wettest June in 150 years. So things are growing like mad, and
>> it looks like we'll have a bumper year for blackberries and so lots of
>> blackberry jam. Had our first strawberry shortcake yesterday, with more to
>> come.
>> 
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Stokes
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:02 PM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] weather report...
>> 
>>> On 30/06/2015 21:49, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>>> 
>>> It has been raining so hard it has sometimes been impossible for me to
>>> see the building on the other side of my parking lot (condo to condo)... at
>>> an angle, and now straight down. We've probably gotten 3-4" in the last
>>> hour (not unusual for these TX gully-washers.  We haven't exactly recovered
>>> from last week's and last month's rain yet either...
>> 
>> People here talk about the rain in Britain.  Until you have experienced
>> rain in the US, and I don't think I have witnessed quite that rate of
>> rainfall, you don't know what rain is.  The rainwater drains we have
>> would be totally inadequate to cope.
>> 
>> Roger
>>