The koi are huddled under the water hyacinth, and they aren’t eating.
The Valley had major hail, uncommon for us: usually hail falls as styrofoam pellets, but this dented cars.
And then a major wind gust blew over the gulls that sit on our outdoor table, blew over the brass lily fountain, blew a chair into the table, and, probably first, in what may have been a downburst from that storm, about 10 miles from us, blasted our back gate so hard it yanked the bottom drop-pin right out of the wooden gate, assembly and all: Jane had to get out there in the cold this morning and reattach it.
Then the metal halide bulb blew out on the marine tank, so we had to drive to the Valley after a new one. Those should NEVER blow out, just get older.
We’re making some progress on the Closed Circle front…nothing huge yet, but we’re gaining on it.
It’s been pretty cool all day, with wind and chill and threatening rain. That’s ok unless we’re having to fix gates.
Our Mariners are wrapping up their season this weekend, so we’re watching baseball. Everybody at the ballpark is wrapped up in blankets and coats.
Very pleasant autumn weather here in the Okies. Temp was up around 70-ish and will be 50-ish over night. I spent the afternoon scanning microfilm looking for any sign of a remote relative. The Genealogy Library are amused; they’ve never had rolls of film with Tasmanian data here before and so I become quite well known to the staff.
Mid Missouri is a chilly 46. No running out in my bare feet to see the harvest moon! But it’s there. We’ve had heavy overcast all week. Your storm sounds kind of freaky.
Wow! You are the only other person I know who has experienced a downburst. Many years ago we had one in an insane thunderstorm that blew out a window in the house, just blew it right out of its frame into the yard. This was the same storm in which a lightening strike hit an oak tree and drove the top twenty-five feet into the ground about fifty feet away from the trunk We did not figure that out until the following winter. We could not see the tree for the forest. Maybe in retrospect building a house on the crown of the (not that tall) tallest hill around was not the brightest idea we had.
Rain yesterday, in the 70’s yesterday..sixty right now @ 9:13 RDT. Supposed to go down to 50’s daytime next week. No frost predicted yet. Which is not to say that in this odd little microclimate we live in it couldn’t go down to 25 and stay there while two miles away it is in the 40’s.
P.S. That’s EDT not RDT (Rural Daylight Time?)
Hmmmmm. Things seem far tamer at our end of town. I didn’t know about the Valley’s hail. I spent 5 hours locked away inside the cave yesterday so I wouldn’t have known a thing: my office has no windows.
Very cool and breezy, here in Vegas. I think Summer’s over; it’s now pleasant to be outside.
Over here, the weather is blustery and autumnal. No frost yet, thank goodness, but up north it’s a possibility, or so I hear.
We had a microburst or funnel cloud here in Olathe a year ago. Woke up in the middle of the night with the whole house shaking. It lasted half a minute, and we turned on the weather, searched the news–nothing. The next morning we found that an entire branch on our 30-year-old river birch was twisted around 180 degrees and there was an 18-inch cylinder of curly bark – no core – laying underneath. Neighbors on the other side of the block had a limb come off the maple tree in the back yard fly over their house and take out windows in the front. Damage was in a 3-block line, and you trace the damage walking around the neighborhood.
It’s maybe 70 degrees in the San Fernando valley right now, and big cool-weather clouds keep floating by. (Big change from the last two weekends, and much easier on the system.)
I think I met a small downburst once: sudden pouring rain and wind, and it broke a 10-inch-diameter branch off an ash tree next door, which fell into the driveway on our side of the fence. (Fortunately it missed everything important.) We didn’t hear it break, or know it was there, until we went outside to go somewhere.