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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.

Yup its cold today. And I mean its a week into April and we have a frost warning tonight. It’s been cold and windy today. This morning it was 43 when I got up, we got to a high of 52. Now, the sun is getting ready to set and the temperature outside is dropping. And as I said, we are under frost and freeze warning tonight. It should be in the mid 70’s, like 76 not 52.

Crazy weather. We’ll see what the rest of the week gives us. If the forecast is to be believed a week from today should be 90. Yup, this is Texas weather.

Okay, this has been weird weather. The other day we had hot almost record breaking heat. For this time of the year we matched the record of 89 degrees. Today we got up to 69, then promptly dropped down to 62 and got rain. Early on today it was light, more like drizzle. Later it became rain. Here at the house we got to a nice 1.20 inches of rain by 9pm. And more is due for tomorrow. We had to go out to Cedar Park, and I was lucky I happened to grab a polar fleece since they said rain. I also grabbed a light rain jacket. They had said possible rain, but that possible is now scheduled to continue until mid day tomorrow.

Welcome to weird weather Texas.

Yesterday we hit a high of 59, yet last night around 11pm it had dropped down to 23. And this morning it was all of 17 degrees.

Today we never even got close to freezing. I think the warmest I saw was 24 today. Tonight we drop down again to around 20.

Tomorrow with any luck we should rise to 34. I’m hoping we actually get there.

To give you an idea of what today was like we even had light flurries. We had wind, from a light breeze to a stiff breeze. With the cold weather that meant our wind chills were down into the single digits. Even my dog didn’t want to go out. It was not a day to take a walk outside unless you were well dressed for the cold. Though we had to go out and I saw a woman in flip flops, no socks she was the exception. Most everyone was dressed in jackets, hats, scarves, warm clothing.

I expect tomorrow most people will be dressed similar to today – warm and bundled.

Well, last week was warm weather on the weekend. Today is now Tuesday and we have cold weather on the way. This past weekend was warm, nice weather. Today we have winter weather warnings. We had a high today of 59, but they’ve been warning about the cold weather coming in. It’s now 10pm and 32. We are going for a cool 21 tonight. The next 48 hours are set to get worse.

The weather channel says it’s 26 outside with a wind chill of 12 outside. I do believe them. It’s cold. And the wind has a true nip to it. A freezing cold nip.

Tomorrow, Wednesday should be 31 and 17. Thursday they are forecasting 35 and 24. Now obviously that doesn’t include the wind chill. Some areas are supposed to get down to wind chills in the minus figures. Now if you are in Montana the temps should be -5 tomorrow.

And the fun part. Next Monday we should be back in the 70’s.

We shall see what Mother Nature brings us.

They said we would get rain and we did. Not a lot, but the other night we got 2.12 inches of rain. It all occurred overnight, and the next morning it was blue skies. It’s been blue skies since. Today was so lovely we even ate lunch outside. We got up to 70 today. Monday we should be up to 80.

It’s been so warm they are saying next week will spend the days in the 80’s. A bit unseasonable I would say, but you never know if that’s entirely true. Nor how long that will last. But the forecast says by the middle of the week we’ll be back down into the 50’s for highs.

But since the weather has been nice, and we got rain, I’m expecting things will begin growing. We’ll see. Often February is one cold month, or at least has many cold spells. We’ll see what happens this year.