Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies from
the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses are
smiling....

D

On 11/17/2013 7:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies from
the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses are
smiling....

D

Where are you? Can you send some rain towards southern California?

Until 10 October, we went 155 days without measurable rain. That is NOT
unusual. Sometimes, we go over 200 days.

Since 10 October, we have had 0.06 inches (1.5 mm). The most recent was
4 November, with 0.03 inches (0.8 mm).

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

David Hare-Scott wrote:

Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies from
the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses are
smiling....

i'm glad you've finally got some rain there.
i was going to say down there, but do you consider
yourself down?

we've managed fairly regular rains the past
month, including last nights major storms (parts
further south of us had tornado weather). it
must not have blown above 100km/hr as the house
didn't shake, much, but for a while i had to get
up a few times and find the bottles in the window
shelves that were rattling (adjustable stained
glass windows ). the driving rain was hard
enough to push through the front door and i had
to wipe that up and left a towel on the floor to
keep it from running. probably only around 30-
40mm of rain.


songbird

David E. Ross wrote:
On 11/17/2013 7:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is
after 3 months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some
fresh goodies from the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has
greened-up, the horses are smiling....

D

Where are you? Can you send some rain towards southern California?

East coast Australia north of Newcastle. Not a desert nor a climate with
seasonal rain patterns like monsoonal or Mediterranean!


No! I 'm keeping it.

D

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies
from the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the
horses are smiling....

Congratulations. You must have got some of the weather that hit Sydney and
ended up all over the news. What a bunch of wimps. We love rain events
even if they do nearly always result in our gutters overflowing and thus
flooding our sun room.

We had great rain a few days before and it turned the paddocks green and the
world looked new washed and less crisp underfoot.

In article ,
"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies from
the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses are
smiling....

D

Locally we had an inch of rain (25.4 mm) over night. The first rain
since Feb. when we had .01 inches of rain (0.254mm), which followed a
Jan. of .03 inches (0.762mm). I got my wood in. Let the good times roll.

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Welcome to the New America.
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On 11/17/2013 10:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies
from the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses
are smiling....

D



Sometimes it seems as if it just oscillates between fire and flood with
intervening droughts, doesn't it? In my area something happened last Spring
and Summer that prevented nut growth so I've got starving squirrels digging
up all of my bulbs to survive, even the toxic Gloriosa were being eaten.
Last Autumn the acorns and hickory nuts were literally lying in drifts
because of the overproduction and the squirrel population exploded in response.

On 11/17/2013 8:21 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 11/17/2013 7:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3
months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies from
the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses are
smiling....

D

Where are you? Can you send some rain towards southern California?

Until 10 October, we went 155 days without measurable rain. That is NOT
unusual. Sometimes, we go over 200 days.

Since 10 October, we have had 0.06 inches (1.5 mm). The most recent was
4 November, with 0.03 inches (0.8 mm).


Hooray. Last night, we got 0.38 inches (9.7 mm).

However, our accumulation for the current rain year (October to
September) is about half of this date last year; and last year was a
very dry year.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

On Thursday, November 21, 2013 7:46:34 AM UTC-8, David E. Ross wrote:
On 11/17/2013 8:21 PM, David E. Ross wrote:

On 11/17/2013 7:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:

Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is after 3

months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some fresh goodies from

the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has greened-up, the horses are

smiling....



D



Where are you? Can you send some rain towards southern California?



Until 10 October, we went 155 days without measurable rain. That is NOT

unusual. Sometimes, we go over 200 days.



Since 10 October, we have had 0.06 inches (1.5 mm). The most recent was

4 November, with 0.03 inches (0.8 mm).





Hooray. Last night, we got 0.38 inches (9.7 mm).



However, our accumulation for the current rain year (October to

September) is about half of this date last year; and last year was a

very dry year.

On the other side of the mountain, at the beach, maybe we got about that or a tad more. Still way below "normal", pre-global warming.

HB

David E. Ross wrote:
....
Hooray. Last night, we got 0.38 inches (9.7 mm).

However, our accumulation for the current rain year (October to
September) is about half of this date last year; and last year was a
very dry year.

from what i've read (tree ring studies):

the longer term record seems to show that the past 100
years was much wetter than the previous 1900 years. that
we may just be seeing a return to the norm.

if so, yikes for people over there...


songbird

In article ,
songbird wrote:

David E. Ross wrote:
...
Hooray. Last night, we got 0.38 inches (9.7 mm).

However, our accumulation for the current rain year (October to
September) is about half of this date last year; and last year was a
very dry year.

from what i've read (tree ring studies):

the longer term record seems to show that the past 100
years was much wetter than the previous 1900 years. that
we may just be seeing a return to the norm.

if so, yikes for people over there...


songbird

Yeah, they may need to stop washing their cars with garden hoses,
filling swimming pools, and close golf courses for lack of water from
the Colorado River, and Northern California. Such a tragedy.

The up-side is that we could have water for salmon, and farmers.
--
Remember Rachel Corrie
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/

Welcome to the New America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg

John McGaw wrote:
On 11/17/2013 10:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is
after 3 months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some
fresh goodies from the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has
greened-up, the horses are smiling....

D



Sometimes it seems as if it just oscillates between fire and flood
with intervening droughts, doesn't it?

Yes, its a hard land even without ENSO swings, this last mini-drought was
just another random fluctuation.

As the rains were coming we got a nice lightning storm. The tree on the
hill 200m south coped a strike and my computer's power supply (despite surge
protection) and the fuses on my sewerage plant went. As well we had to get
the house transformer fuses fixed too and the rural fire service to put out
the fire the strike started. It could have been worse, some people lost
most of their appliances (from other strikes).

D

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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John McGaw wrote:
On 11/17/2013 10:48 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Last week a couple of solid falls now overnight 104 mm. This is
after 3 months without one fall more than a spit. I may get some
fresh goodies from the garden for Xmas after all. The pasture has
greened-up, the horses are smiling....

D



Sometimes it seems as if it just oscillates between fire and flood
with intervening droughts, doesn't it?

Yes, its a hard land even without ENSO swings, this last mini-drought was
just another random fluctuation.

As the rains were coming we got a nice lightning storm. The tree on the
hill 200m south coped a strike and my computer's power supply (despite
surge protection) and the fuses on my sewerage plant went. As well we had
to get the house transformer fuses fixed too and the rural fire service to
put out the fire the strike started. It could have been worse, some
people lost most of their appliances (from other strikes).

Bugger! None of that sounds like fun. We had a powerful storm last night
and last power for 3 hours just on dinner time. Lucky for us the toilet
operates on gravity feed from a tank on the hill and we have lots of camping
equipment so I brought in a bucket of water and we were right till the power
came back on.

These events seem to have become more regular.

Farm1 wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
....
As the rains were coming we got a nice lightning storm. The tree on the
hill 200m south coped a strike and my computer's power supply (despite
surge protection) and the fuses on my sewerage plant went. As well we had
to get the house transformer fuses fixed too and the rural fire service to
put out the fire the strike started. It could have been worse, some
people lost most of their appliances (from other strikes).

Bugger! None of that sounds like fun.

certainly more exciting than i'd like to be near. for
one a lightning strike that close to the house is loud!
the fire would not be much fun either.


We had a powerful storm last night
and last power for 3 hours just on dinner time. Lucky for us the toilet
operates on gravity feed from a tank on the hill and we have lots of camping
equipment so I brought in a bucket of water and we were right till the power
came back on.

we didn't get hit by the power outages last weekend
from the strong storms that went through, but we did
have a power outage here last night too. something
in the distance arc'd and lit up the sky a few times
while the power went off and on and then it finally
stayed off. four hours later it came back on and
things went back to normal. we always have extra
water stashed away to flush the toilets in case we
have the power go out on us. in the winter i more
worry about heat than anything as it gets cold
enough to freeze pipes and cause damage. we have a
gas fireplace so we can keep ourselves from freezing
but that doesn't heat the crawlspace underneath.


These events seem to have become more regular.

perhaps two very strong hurricanes/typhoons so close
together will finally wake up the governments and peoples
to make much stronger changes... i can sure hope so.

in the meantime i think we're only on the front edge of
this sort of thing, both frequency and strength are likely
to increase for some folks.


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message
we didn't get hit by the power outages last weekend
from the strong storms that went through, but we did
have a power outage here last night too.

Seems to be ubiquitous.

something
in the distance arc'd and lit up the sky a few times
while the power went off and on and then it finally
stayed off. four hours later it came back on and
things went back to normal. we always have extra
water stashed away to flush the toilets in case we
have the power go out on us. in the winter i more
worry about heat than anything as it gets cold
enough to freeze pipes and cause damage. we have a
gas fireplace so we can keep ourselves from freezing
but that doesn't heat the crawlspace underneath.

We installed another wood burning heater over the past winter and it has
improved out quality of life enormously as a result of selecting just the
right spot to place it.

Luckily for us we don't have temps that (usually) get low enough to freeze
our water pipes but I know why you'd not want that to be happening at your
place. I think we've had our pipes freeze perhaps 4 times in about 20
years. It makes for an uncomfortable morning but that's aoubt all the
inconvenience it gives.

These events seem to have become more regular.

perhaps two very strong hurricanes/typhoons so close
together will finally wake up the governments and peoples
to make much stronger changes... i can sure hope so.

;-) I really do doubt that will happen.

in the meantime i think we're only on the front edge of
this sort of thing, both frequency and strength are likely
to increase for some folks.

Yup.