[Magdalen] weather report...

[Jay Weigel]

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
>