Friday, May 16, 2008

Rain and more rain

Ole Ma Nature turned on the sprinkler system sometime during the night and we woke this morning to the sound of rain gently falling on the roof, running down into the gutters and clanging down the downspouts. (Well, it sounded like clanging as it makes that C-curve around the first floor eave. One. Huge. Drop. At. A. Time.)

Contrasted to the year we built the Aerie, this has been an incredibly wet spring. Two years ago we took delivery of the log home package on April 19 and I don't recall missing one day due to the rain. We got some rain, of course, but it was either during the night or during a time when we could work indoors, having closed in the Aerie.

Just checking Accuweather records for the area and they say we have had 0.8 inches of precip so far in the month of May. (Normal for the month is approximately 3 inches so we're substantially short of our average there. I guess most of it slid to the east of us as Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey seem to have been hit pretty hard last week.) AW also says we were 0.3 inches short on precip in April: 2.6 inches received vs. 2.9 inches average. I'm going to have to get the rain gauge up and keep my own records 'cause I'm pretty sure we got a good deal more than that.

Anyway, it's raining now and it will be until around noon. Then the sky will clear until Saturday late and all day Sunday. Then again on Tuesday night. Anything beyond that is a guess and not a forecast.

1 comment:

GUYK said...

sure would like to see some down my way..but it will probably be late next month before we get any rain to amount to anything