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Rain
Wonderful… Wet…. Rain….. Finally! And it left something nice to look at when it was done…
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Outside My Window ~ 7.11.10
Outside My Window…is 85ºF with partly cloudy skies. Our forecast high today is 91º and sunshine. Right now it looks as if some dark clouds are trying to form over the neighborhood…enough to block out the sun at the moment. Personally, I wouldn’t care if it rained all day long….nice, steady shower….thoroughly soaking the ground….all day. We got a small amount of rain yesterday ~ not enough to perk up my vinca plants in the front garden….not enough to save my mint plant. It is toast I fear. My tomato plants while not yet dead seem to have suffered from the intense heat and humidity we had for so many days. …
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Outside My Window ~ 12.13.09
Outside My Window…is rain! Yes, rain……cause everyone knows we could sure use it. We were actually in danger of some of the larger puddles drying out! 🙂 Seriously though…….it is raining, again. The forecast for today is to receive about a half an inch today. In normal conditions, a half an inch wouldn’t really mean all that much…..in our current condition, it just adds to the saturation. Right now at 9:30 a.m. we are at 56F, which is a great improvement over the 33F mornings we have been experiencing these last few days. We won’t get much warmer today, only a high of 59F. This temperature high will only last a couple of…
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Final Update
The nor’Easter that has been named Nor’Ida is slowly moving away from the North Carolina coast. The rain and winds have diminished quite a bit and are still impacting the Northeast but we are calm for the most part. No howling winds, no torrential rains….it is quiet now but we are definitely wetter than we were three days ago. I have discovered the unconfirmed rainfall total I posted yesterday was not the grand total….the final tally for Newport News was 10.01 inches of rain. Only Virginia Beach received more rain at 10.25 inches. Here are a few photos our local paper, The Daily Press, had online…… This photo was taken in Poquoson before the…
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Storm Update
We survived a rather wild day and night here in Southeast Virginia on Thursday…..some a little dryer than others. There is massive flooding in my region and it is still raining, though not quite as hard as it was yesterday. I have an unconfirmed total of 5.17 inches thus far in my city. The winds have calmed down to 25mph sustained winds with only 35 to 40mph gusts. I say only because some gusts last night were reaching 75mph. I can’t remember when I have heard my windows rattle like they did yesterday. After the sun went down, I actually got quite worried ~ I think as long as you can see what…
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Howling Winds & Pouring Rain
The forecast today is winds 25 to 40 mph…..gusts of over 60 mph. It continues to rain….much harder now than it was yesterday. Our rainfall total as of 7:30 this morning is 4.93 inches since this event started. And the worst of the rain, wind and flooding is yet to come. The forecasters are saying this is a storm of historic proportions for this area and that it is probably going to be worse than the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962 . I’m feeling a bit anxious about the events yet to come. There are a couple of bridges and tunnels closed……if you aren’t familiar with our area, we have several bridge tunnels that…
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And So It Begins….
I took this image a few weeks ago before a nor’Easter came into our area. This was the night before the rains came. We have another one that has set up in our area…..actually I suppose it started sometime during the early morning hours. It is around 3:00 pm now and it has been raining steadily since I got up at 5:30 this morning. This is what I heard we can expect from this storm…….what was once Hurricane Ida is now located over Florida. It will venture out into the Atlantic, where sitting off the coast is an area of low pressure which probably wouldn’t become anything to worry about on its own. But it is expected…
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Wet
I saw on The Weather Channel this morningwe are expected to have back to back coastal storms…….or Nor’easter as they are called. One affecting us today, another on Sunday. I explained a Nor’easter in this post, but the short and simple of it is a nor’easter is like tropical systems we get in the summer, except not so much tropical. They develop and produce cold northeasterly winds and like their summer counterparts, they can move real slow and dump days and days of rain. They generally develop on or off the coast of the mid-Atlantic. We have gotten our fair share of rain today…..with more expected this evening. I haven’t heard so much about strong winds…
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Outside My Window ~ 9.27.09
Outside My Window…are the remnants of a morning shower. I woke up to rain, which allowed me to roll over and sleep a bit longer. It is 72F at 10:30 this morning. I believe we are finished with the rain showers and will spend the rest of the day under cloudy skies. Temperatures have been unseasonably cool the last few days, but we will get up to the 80’s today and tomorrow. Temps will then drop back down to the low 70’s for the remainder of the week with sunshine. If all goes as forecasted, we should have a very nice week. I have noticed some of the trees are…
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Outside My Window ~ 9.6.09
Outside My Window…is blue skies, temperature is 67F with 83% humidity at 8:00 a.m. The sun has just gotten up over the rooftops so it is pretty nice outside right now. We are forecasted to have a high of 86F with partly sunny skies today. For Labor Day, cloudy and showers….guess that means everyone will be heading home from the beaches sooner than they planned. We had a glimpse of fall this past week with temperatures hovering in the low 70’s during the day. I am thinking…about how much I enjoy long, holiday weekends. It is perfect…..you get a long, three day weekend and then the following week, a short…