Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Rain, Rain...

...go away. And don't bother coming back for a while!

It's been a(nother) chilly and damp day here at the Aerie. The temperature fell from around 42 degrees just after midnight to 36 degrees at 7 AM Tuesday morning. It rose slowly to 42 degrees at 5 PM and looks like, in a reversal of the norm, it will be rising much of the night and tomorrow until it reaches 70 degrees by 4 PM Wednesday. We will pay for that warmth, however. AccuHunch says the continuous showers we have been experiencing will intensify to thunderstorms by the time the temps reach their maximum.

The sun will--they say--make its weekly appearance on Thursday. Good Friday may merely be cloudy. Saturday will see another chance for T-storms. And Easter Sunday? Cloudy with a chance of rain. *sigh*

We've already passed the average amount of precipitation for the month of April and still have 10 days to go. (We had 2.70 inches of precipitation in March. The average is 2.65 inches. Some of that precipitation came in the form of snow: 24.3 inches of snow.)

Those May flowers we're owed better be pretty darn spectacular!

4 comments:

Rev. Paul said...

I occasionally bemoan the lack of hard spring rains, but I do not miss the t-storms of the Midwest. All things considered, I'll stick here where the temps are more, um, regular.

joated said...

Paul, at least we're not likely to get those crazy tornados either here or where you are. And here, we have no volcanoes! (Just the grit and dust from dirt roads--like you.)

threecollie said...

Found a bloodroot blossom up in the woods today and the poor thing had its petals clenched closed and its leaves curled up around it. It had my utmost sympathy.

joated said...

threecollie, I'm surprised it wasn't trying to grawl back into the ground! (Or at least wasn't wearing a scuba tank.)