How's your weather?

[bobss396]

62 F, RH of 71%. I might shoot some clear later on.

Pool had some branches and leaves in it. Picked up bigger branches off the lawn. Today should break 80.

Yesterday morning the pool was 66, later in the day it was 72. A big drop from 83 a few days ago. I just may close it up early. Towards late September stuff from the oak trees fall into it.

[89AKurt]

Pictures, or it didn't happen.  😀  We in Arizona are rejoicing that the "Monsoon" weather pattern has finally be allowed to happen.  It's about two months late.  When we drive around, some areas are green, while much of the area is still in severe drought.  I'll start with this killer rainbow Thursday evening, this is a panorama shot, video was the only other way to get it all.

Yesterday, I went for the fifth trip to get bulk spec ABC.  For laughs, iPhone said:

Then:

From zero to 50%, let me show you what that really means, while I drive through Prescott Valley to go to our airport, a 10 mile one way trip.  Going to turn left (west) after the bridge, it's just starting.

At the airport location, I live on the other side of that hill that's getting rain, 6.08 miles by lighting bolt.

Not even two miles on the return leg:

Call me a nut, but check out how the hood is reflecting the thunderhead on the water streaks. 🙄  I'm on the other side of that gully-washer.  Back to that intersection in the first picture.

Back home, the airport is to the right off the picture.

Been asking for 0.68 ton, Loader nailed it!  I got it unloaded and spread around, and did a rain dance to pack it down last night. 🍷

This morning at the Bosa cruise, scattered sprinkles, but more people showed up later, gorgeous day.

[Ace-Garageguy]

If the National Weather Service live radar is anything to go by, it looks like a high pressure area over my location is holding off, for the most part, a big patch of rain closer to the GA / SC coast, possibly tail end "atmospheric disturbance" remnants of hurricane Erin. 

Forecast for next week is still mostly clear and much cooler, with highs in the upper 70s and low eighties, lows in the high 50s and low 60s.

Very strange for this time of year, like an early fall, but I'll take it.

I really miss the days when some media meteorologists really WERE METEROLIGISTS, and not graduates of Joe's-5-Hour-Yesterday-I-Couldn't-Spell-Meteriologist-And-Now-I-Is-One-School-For-The-Dense-With-Bluescreens, who seem to gravitate more towards ginning up anxiety and using terms like "rain event" than explaining things like isobars and delivering accurate and reliable forecasts.

I hear "rain event" and immediately think of indigenous people wearing feathers and facepaint and dancing, trying to persuade the heavens to precipitate.

Yes, I know...media insists their "credentialed meteorologists" are just that, but choo know...if y'all give the same wrong forecast that anyone with computer access to NWS radar can easily SEE is wrong, well, it kinda makes one wonder.

[Tim W. SoCal]

23 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I really miss the days when some media meteorologists really WERE METEROLIGISTS, and not graduates of Joe's-5-Hour-Yesterday-I-Couldn't-Spell-Meteriologist-And-Now-I-Is-One-School-For-The-Dense-With-Bluescreens, who seem to gravitate more towards ginning up anxiety and using terms like "rain event"

  One of the things me that cracks me up about the Los Angeles network news is that every time there is a forecast of rain, they all boldly and loudly announce "STORM WATCH 2025!" (or whichever year it has been or will be) then after the "storm" report rainfall totals of less than 2/10th of an inch.

[89AKurt]

Don't get me going about weather vs. climate and all the Doomer porn that goes with it.  They are making it appear flash floods are a new thing, ever wonder how mountains and valleys are formed?  Desert Rat that I am, when big rain falls, we jump for joy.  My location got 1.1" today!

But first, last night a big storm east of me, the river drains to the right (south) so I knew it would be running.

I made myself get out early, to get sand and/or rocks.   This is about 20 miles southeast from my home, it's parched, and bumpy.

This is the river, I didn't dare cross it without 4WD.  I gathered just rocks.

I'm more amused than I should be with the iPhone weather app, this is when I returned home.  Good thing I don't need it for work or camping.  Today was a typical "Monsoon" day, fake you out with almost clear sky, then "out of the blue" as they say.

And just then....

Oh.... just a little rain now....

As the saying goes, if you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes.

Oh wait, I was just kidding!

From inside when it was really pouring.  Got small hail too.

Had the lightning map and weather radar up, watching numerous strikes at once was cool.

I should repost this in the What Pleased You Today thread. 😅

[Ace-Garageguy]

^^^ Oh, how I pine for the days when knowledgeable people said "forecast" instead of "forecasted".

Yes, they're supposedly both correct (depending on whose dictionary or writer's style guide you use), but "forecasted" sounds, to me, like something a 3-year-old would say.

Kinda like "I casted some wesin parts, Mommy".