Just Google Canadian Prairies, at night it may be the Aurora Borealis!
Or a spectacular electrical storm.
Max.

 

I'm seeing some seriously cool cloud-to-cloud lighting across a clear blue sky. Sorry that I can't capture a photo of it.

 

We had that last night in southern Wisconsin, a great show of heat lightning.

 

It rained copiously down here on Saturday and Sunday. The weather was quite pleasant this morning, about 21°C. But according to some forecasters, next weekend it will be raining too. Talk about bbq-bumming weather...

I read somewhere that it does actually rain more often on weekends, due to the human industrial cycle... I wonder if it's really true, or if at least it has some statistical connection...

 

Statistical significance per Wiki. Then there's this interesting article referenced in the Wiki link illustrating "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"

 

It's a bit soggy today. Four Florida people on this site that I know of, but the hurricane isn't going to eat any of us. It's too far north and just a baby hurricane.

 

It's a bit soggy today. Four Florida people on this site that I know of, but the hurricane isn't going to eat any of us. It's too far north and just a baby hurricane.

Hmmm, #12.

 

Hmmm...ronv

 

Hmmm...ronv

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Translation:
"The world would be a much nicer place, if mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood"

 

Hmmm...ronv

Yea, I got that. This time of year we get those little gnats. I don't know which is worse. They drive you gnuts.

 

@#12, shouldn't you be boarding your house?

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/0...st-brace-for-hurricane-hermines-landfall.html

 

@joeyd999, ... yes, I worry about you too

 

@#12, shouldn't you be boarding your house?

It's a bit soggy today. Four Florida people on this site that I know of, but the hurricane isn't going to eat any of us. It's too far north and just a baby hurricane.

You need to quit believing those TV Weather Guessers trying desperately to make a terror-crisis-threat out of any little thing they have to work with.

I don't even lower the TV antenna unless the wind is going to exceed 50 MPH.
This rain doesn't qualify. The worst part so far, is wet shoes.

 

The worst part so far, is wet shoes.

See??? what did I tell ya?
Save your shoes!!!

 

So #12 how was the worst of Hermine as she passed by?
Did you get much high wind?

 

So #12 how was the worst of Hermine as she passed by?
Did you get much high wind?

The TV said, "gusting to 50 MPH" so I went outside and watched. I'm going to have to trim one tree branch that was slapping one of my antennas. My camphor tree naturally sheds, so (2) abandoned and dead branches less than 1 inch diameter blew off. The back yard is still so saturated that you can't walk out there without water getting in your shoes. The front lawns are releasing water continuously so the gutters in the street are more than 1 inch deep.

So there you have it. One bent antenna and it's too soggy to pick up tree litter today without getting your shoes all wet.

 

Tropical weather:

 

That comic missed the part about sucking sounds while you try to walk on the saturated sod before the water drains out.
Then there is the lawn, growing while the rain falls. The grass gets so thick and healthy! I just took 45 minutes to mow a yard that usually takes 20 minutes. All drippy sweaty right now.

Oh well. Good for the complexion. You can't get too nasty/dirty while every pore you have is sweating like your life depends on it.
Did I tell you I can lose a pint of water in 15 minutes?
Not a nice picture, but I'll be laughing at you and your snow shovel next January.

 

Don't have to worry about snow here, just the San Andreas deciding to wake up and suddenly move my neighborhood a few yards North.
Edit: The bad part is that the movement is a step function in a highly underdamped system.

 

L.A. was a swell place when I lived there, but darn it's getting crowded!
Then again, several generations have said the same thing.