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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

Scheduled to play a round of golf in 100+ degree weather next weekend. But when you get a free round at Black Desert, you take the offer. Tee time is 8:30 so the first hour or so will not be bad. Thankfully, it's a "dry heat." Evidently, food and drink (minus alcohol) is included.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Scheduled to play a round of golf in 100+ degree weather next weekend. But when you get a free round at Black Desert, you take the offer. Tee time is 8:30 so the first hour or so will not be bad. Thankfully, it's a "dry heat." Evidently, food and drink (minus alcohol) is included.
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Hells yeah you take that offer.
 
We were out enjoying "County Employee Appreciation Day" at one of the county waterparks yesterday afternoon and evening when my neighbor called to tell me he went out and bought a generator in case we wanted to plug in our fridge... then he texted me ten minutes later to say the power was back on. I guess that generator did it's job!

When I was driving my daughter home as we got closer and closer to our neighborhood there were still a lot of blocks with no power and I could hear generators running. Once we got onto our street it seemed like maybe every other house looked to have no power or was running a generator and I thought maybe our neighbor had played a prank on us but thankfully our power was indeed up and running. By this morning it sounded like our entire neighborhood was back online... but the neighborhood a few miles north of ours where our youngest daughter was having camp this week had lost power overnight so her last day of this session of camp was cancelled. Same daughter is supposed to go to a birthday party at a splash pad later this afternoon. It's threatening to rain and I keep getting lightning alerts on my phone but I think she might luck out.
 
It's a little humid here but only about 80º today and looking at the 10 day forecast, temps look like they're not going to be much warmer than today. We had a couple HOT weeks at the start of June and May and June were both really dry but we seem to have gotten a fair amount of rain over the past few weeks and the temps have generally been pretty pleasant. Midway through June I thought we were going to be in for a brutal summer but it definitely hasn't turned out that way.

Generally by now, the only green spots in my lawn are crabgrass but it's holding on pretty well and I've only used the sprinkler a couple of times.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
It's a little humid here but only about 80º today and looking at the 10 day forecast, temps look like they're not going to be much warmer than today. We had a couple HOT weeks at the start of June and May and June were both really dry but we seem to have gotten a fair amount of rain over the past few weeks and the temps have generally been pretty pleasant. Midway through June I thought we were going to be in for a brutal summer but it definitely hasn't turned out that way.

Generally by now, the only green spots in my lawn are crabgrass but it's holding on pretty well and I've only used the sprinkler a couple of times.
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I haven't watered my lawn at all, and this is definitely the greenest my grass has ever been at this point in August.
 
I posted this to RTDNTOTO but I suppose it goes here too.

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It was a cool 70 this morning when I left for work and the high shouldn't get out of the 80s. I know it's a trap, but it almost feels like the heat might break soon. Bring on the octoberfest beers and pumpkin spiced everything. I'll deal with it for some fall weather.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
It was a cool 70 this morning when I left for work and the high shouldn't get out of the 80s. I know it's a trap, but it almost feels like the heat might break soon. Bring on the octoberfest beers and pumpkin spiced everything. I'll deal with it for some fall weather.
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65 at sunrise here in the northern ATL burbs.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
It was a cool 70 this morning when I left for work and the high shouldn't get out of the 80s. I know it's a trap, but it almost feels like the heat might break soon. Bring on the octoberfest beers and pumpkin spiced everything. I'll deal with it for some fall weather.
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It was 70 when I came to work today. The high will begin the 90s and back into the low 100s this weekend
 
Tuesday and Thursday were the days that I'd be able to get away from work and take our youngest to the county 4H fair in the neighboring county. Unfortunately, the weather sucked both Tuesday and again today so I guess no fair for us this year. I took my youngest to a local arcade she's been bugging me to go to instead today. It's a rip off but she had a blast I still probably came away spending a lot less than I would have at the fair. I do miss the opportunity for an elephant ear or some deep fried Oreos and the always delicious broasted chicken.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Tuesday and Thursday were the days that I'd be able to get away from work and take our youngest to the county 4H fair in the neighboring county. Unfortunately, the weather sucked both Tuesday and again today so I guess no fair for us this year. I took my youngest to a local arcade she's been bugging me to go to instead today. It's a rip off but she had a blast I still probably came away spending a lot less than I would have at the fair. I do miss the opportunity for an elephant ear or some deep fried Oreos and the always delicious broasted chicken.
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That fair has become huge. It's been quite a few years since I've been there. My oldest went last night with her boyfriend for the demolition derby and she said it was PACKED. Nowhere to sit so they had to stand the whole time and could barely see.
 
btrage said:
That fair has become huge. It's been quite a few years since I've been there. My oldest went last night with her boyfriend for the demolition derby and she said it was PACKED. Nowhere to sit so they had to stand the whole time and could barely see.
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I think it's now the oldest county fair in the state? Growing up, we'd go once or twice each summer and it was pretty big back then too but yeah, I've heard it gets crazy packed in the evenings now. Usually, we like to get there as the barns open just after 10:00, look at the animals and tractors until we eat our junk food lunch, and then enjoy the midway when that opens around noon and be out of there before the crowds arrive. I would like to take my kids to the demolition derby or the tractor pull one of these years, as I think they'd get a kick out of that for about 15 minutes, but other than that, I've got no desire to be there after about 3:00 p.m.

Our oldest is actually at "Horse Camp" all week this week and we'll go pick her up on Saturday and see a riding demonstration and they have goats and chickens and other animals so we'll just tell the youngest that that is the fair. :rofl:
 
We've had two nights in a row of very heavy rainstorms. Wednesday night, the thunder and lighting started around midnight and seemed to just be rumbling nonstop for like an hour and a half. It sounded like I was listening to an artillery barrage. Not too much wind but the rain was heavy and areas south of me and around the airport were totally flooded. I think I saw some areas had rain totals of 7"+ in just a few hours.

Last night we had another big storm come through. It was super humid all evening and around 10:00 p.m. we had an intense lightning storm that lasted for at least half an hour before the rain began. I went outside to sit on the front porch and drink a beer while watching the lightning light everything up like daylight and listen to the thunder - seemed like the proper Midwestern thing to do. Once the rain began I went inside and went to bed. I went for a run this morning and in the eastern part of our neighborhood all the garbage cans and recycling bins were strewn everywhere in the middle of the streets and across lawns. I don't think we got much wind (there were no tree limbs down) so I think it rained heavy enough over such a short period of time that the water must have been rushing down the street pushing the garbage cans around. The neighborhoods on the other side of ours, where it gets really dense, were even more littered with debris. The river that bisects town (just west of downtown) was well over its banks and flowing fast and the waterfall in the little lake sounded like Niagara. There was enough debris on the sides of the roads in a couple spots that I think the water must have gotten up to or over the bridge for a few minutes.

WSU MUP Student said:
It's a little humid here but only about 80º today and looking at the 10 day forecast, temps look like they're not going to be much warmer than today. We had a couple HOT weeks at the start of June and May and June were both really dry but we seem to have gotten a fair amount of rain over the past few weeks and the temps have generally been pretty pleasant. Midway through June I thought we were going to be in for a brutal summer but it definitely hasn't turned out that way.

Generally by now, the only green spots in my lawn are crabgrass but it's holding on pretty well and I've only used the sprinkler a couple of times.
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btrage said:
I haven't watered my lawn at all, and this is definitely the greenest my grass has ever been at this point in August.
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I've noticed in the past week or so that not only is my lawn much greener than it normally would be this time of year, it's downright lush! Typically in August I could probably have the grass cut once and be done for the month; this year it would probably benefit from being cut twice a week. The lawns and gardens in the area are about as green and verdant as they would be in early June
 
Unrelated to the current hurricane, we've received about two-and-a-half inches of rain in the past 24 hours, and over five inches of rain in the last 48 hours.
 
Bubba said:
Unrelated to the current hurricane, we've received about two-and-a-half inches of rain in the past 24 hours, and over five inches of rain in the last 48 hours.
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We measured three inches in same period....but some say all this stuff is so related...
 
We were on 53d street Manhattan on Friday, just before a wedding in CT. Walk to city library left all of us drenched to waste high.
 
It rained a total of 9” over the course of a week. It was brutal. Now it’s a streak of beautiful sunny mid-70s days.
 
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