Month: May 2025

Remember that song, Rainy days and Monday’s always get me down? Well this morning it was both – Monday and rainy. Early this morning it was a wake up call to pouring rain. In about an hour we have 0.34 inches of rain. I know that’s not a lot, but…..

It was a nice cool mid 60’s degree morning. I even walked my dog. It was a bit overcast, but after the rain that was okay. The rest of the day it was clear skies, cloudy, humid, clear, cloudy, and humid all day.

Until early evening. By about 6pm, the weather people had been on the air for about 2 hours. Straight. Parts of the area were under severe storm, tornado watch, hail, wind warnings. It was nasty. And it got worse.

Walking my dog in the evening, 7pmish it was cloudy in part of the sky, and clear in the other. But it looked ominous. Sure enough, weather alarms went off. They had said during the 2 hour weather episode that the storm was heading southwest. I think it took something of a detour. By the time it hit us it dropped just over an inch in about 45 minutes. By 10PM we have a nice 1.37 inches of rain. It’s now 11 and I’m going to bed and hoping for the best for the rest of the night.

Tomorrow we will see if there were any confirmed tornadoes. Maybe, maybe not. There was confirmed windshields broken from hail (some was softball and bigger sized). Flood warnings are in effect. Some areas got 2-4 inches in isolated areas. So where is the flooding? I’ll probably check in the morning.

But now at 11pm the weather alarms have stopped. Good luck and good night to all. Hopefully it will just be a bad storm and no tornadoes some the morning.

I haven’t been checking my plants much lately. Much to my surprise not only is the swiss chard growing, the basil is doing fine, and the beans are coming up, but the old seed (2020 seed) is coming up. I now have 5 tomato plants coming up. I even have some “some sort of long bean” seeds a friend gave me coming up. The only thing not sprouting yet is the bell pepper. Now I have two bell pepper sets of seeds. One set is from an old seed packet, the other was taken from a fresh bell pepper, left to dry a day then put into soil. So we have hope.

The seeds are planted in a variety of pots and a new vertical planter. The vertical planter looks like a planter box on a rack, just 4 planter boxes. It’s my first time using one. I’m trying it because of the change of the yard (new house) and I’m going to figure out what area may be best for gardening.

As for the weather, we got a small amount of rain again last night. I could hear thunder last night, and this morning the small porch was wet. Watering day here (we get one day a week assigned by the last digit of your address) is on Saturday. So I know it wasn’t the watering system. But the rain gauge says we only got 0.06″ of rain last night. Yes, we finally got the weather station up. It’s really nice to have it up.

Before you consider moving to central Texas just letting you know. Yesterday was hot, mid 90’s then last night, around 9pm the temperature dropped to around 83 (I checked) and began to rain. We got 3/4″ of rain in about an hour. It was thunder, lightning, and rain. It was lovely in some ways. The fireflies were out. But it was hot and humid.

They had not originally forecast us to get rain. But as the day wore on they warned of pop up showers. Showers that would/could suddenly arise, might be short lived, not long lasting, and only cover smallish areas. The storm we got didn’t last long, maybe an hour. Then it moved on. But some areas got hail.

So before you think “Yeah, Texas has nice weather.” let me warn you. Summer has just begun, and it’s hot and humid, with occasional storms. At least the plants like it. That’s what I’m telling myself.

This week, starting with Monday May 5 we got rain. Monday we actually got an inch of rain. I can’t give as definitive of an amount as I normally do. I’ve recently moved and I don’t have my weather station set up yet. I do have an old fashioned rain gauge set up so I still have an idea of how much rain we are getting. It wasn’t the worse rain day, but nonetheless we got rain.

Then yesterday, Tuesday we got more rain. Yesterday we got all the rain in the morning, by 1pm, just after noon the skies were clear and blue. But the morning dropped 1-1/2 inches of rain. Both days also gave us tornado sightings in Central Texas. I can’t say I’ve heard that they did a lot of damage, but they were confirmed sightings.

Both days were also filled with severe weather warnings, mainly rain, hail, and wind. And then of course tornado warnings.

The rest of the week we are expected to be dry. That will be nice after all the rain we got. It will give time for any floods to recede.