How's the weather?

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Incredible storm outside. Lots of rain with sustained lightning for the last 15 minutes. Winds of up to 30 kph. Temperature plunged 10C in less than 20 minutes, from 29C to 19C.

The lightning is so constant that it woke me up, and allows me to see the street outside whose light poles lost power when the storm started. Lost power for a moment in my house too. But it came back after less than a minute.
 

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#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
18,224
June 3, 2017. Finally! A good, solid, tropical rain!
Still raining on the 4th and 5th and predicted to rain until June 8th.
Very necessary because the lawn was dying, which hasn't happened for maybe 20 or 30 years.
I'm going to have to sharpen the blade on the lawn mower, but that's better than replacing the trees with cacti.:)
 

djsfantasi

Joined Apr 11, 2010
9,237
Yes,
Does it get frozen in Winter ?
Yes, it does. Thick enough at times that they hold car races on it. The annual ice fishing derby is another popular event, with the lake surface dotted with many, little, heated ice fishing huts. Some people build a campfire on the ice.

Every April is "Ice Out", with gambling for guessing the closest date and time. It is defined as the first date that the local steamboat can reach all of its ports.
 

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
7,830
Yes,



Every April is "Ice Out", with gambling for guessing the closest date and time. It is defined as the first date that the local steamboat can reach all of its ports.

"Steamboat" ? What year are you living in over there? ;)

OK "the" local steamboat. I will assume it is an excursion vessel. ;)
 
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