This past weekend has been lovely weather. Its warm, 91 in my back yard at 6pm. And here is my haul of peppers today. They are Anaheim peppers.
Not sure what I’m going to do with all of them yet.I’ll figure that out.
Peppers
Month: July 2021
Rain
Another 0.7 inches of rain today.
Still getting rain
We’re still getting some rain here. Yesterday, 7/6 I woke up to find we had gotten 0.45 inches of rain. Today we’ve gotten 0.16 inches, all in one short microburst. Its was just “boom” it was raining, rained for a short couple of minutes, then it was over.
The only nice thing about this weather is we’ve been in the mid 80’s, sometimes low 80’s instead of the mid 90’s we could normally expect. The cooler weather is nice to have.
But at least we’re lucky, we could be Florida. That area has been dealing with Hurricane Elsa. It made landfall today in north Florida. Its on its way to Georgia (probably there already). Its expected to be in North Carolina tomorrow morning, so it will probably make it way through South Carolina this evening. It should make Massachusetts by Friday, then by Saturday it will be back out to sea. At least that is what they are expecting. I’m sure we will be hearing about the destruction its causing soon enough.
I’ll try to keep posting about both our rain here, and Hurricane Elsa.
More rain
It was clear until early afternoon. Then its been on and off slow rain. Its now 10PM and we’ve gotten 0.40 inches. We might get more tonight, but then again maybe not.
Because of this area being the way it is, we can build clouds well during the day. So we are more likely to get clouds during the day and get rain during the day than overnight. Of course that isn’t always true, depends on the circumstance. That’s just the way weather is.
Rumor has it some areas got lots of rain today, like well over an inch and if the forecast I listened to earlier was correct, some areas got 2-3 inches of rain. That’s I cannot attest to.
But here in the Austin/Drift/Dripping Springs area we got just about half an inch of rain.
And yes, more is on the way.
Happy Fourth of July
They have warned of rain. Its not a continuous rain that we get here. And they’ve been warning of it for day. Well, it does strike. And I use the word strike as that is what just happened. In the space of less than 15 minutes we have gotten 3/4′ of rain. We’ve spent the day with clouds, some blue skies, and yet suddenly the skies darkened and rain began. It has been 15 minutes now since it first began, and where the rain has slowed, we still have 0.77 inches in the back yard. It well may stop shortly, but by then we may well hit .80 inches of rain.
And being that its still mid afternoon, its possible we could get more rain later this day or tonight.
This is how rain comes in central Texas.
At least the yard and the garden got watered.
UPDATE: its almost 11pm and we’ve topped out at 0.82 inches of rain. But rain is in the forecast the rest of the week. I’ll keep you posted.