[Magdalen] weather report...

[Marion Thompson]

Grey and chilly and occasionally wet (it was a terrible weekend) up here 
off the northeast corner of Greater Toronto.  We have had far more rain 
than usual for June.  :-(  I managed to cut the grass, sort of, in 
advance of tomorrow's Dominion Day celebration, the last at this house 
after more than 20 years.   The sun (hah ha) shelter is up and the long 
table for food is out.  Wouldn't surprise me if we all have to cram into 
the house and sip single malt instead of being outside with cold 
bevvies, but the forecast says the morning showers should yield to a sun 
and cloud mix and warming temperatures.  Oh, yeah???  Show me!  I 
actually have the heat pump on!  It's June 30th, for Pete's sake!

Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....

On 6/30/2015 5:45 PM, Charles Wohlers 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
>