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11/13/2019 – The weather this fall has been great but winter is here now. The wind blew 15-25 MPH yesterday as a cold front blew through and an arctic blast followed the wind. At 6 AM the weather station shows the temp to be 25.5 degrees, an 8 MPH wind, and 70% humidity. The afternoon […]
Continue Reading10/12/2019 – August was a very wet month with over 11″ of rain through the 26th. The only rain here between then and October 12 today, when 1.23″ fell, was a brief shower of 0.4″–although parts of Mobile flooded with 6″ of rain. Since mid-August, we have installed the 1″ PVC water line to the […]
Continue ReadingRegular thunderstorms have dumped water on us to a total of 6.3″ in the first 20 days of August 2019.
Continue ReadingWe have been watering the garden and parts of the yard the past 2 weeks as everything was getting dry. Even the grass was starting to look dry and shriveled. This afternoon we had thunderstorms rolling east along the coast and got 0.86″ of rain. There was some wind with gusts up to 12.5 MPH […]
Continue ReadingHeavy thunderstorms blew in Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday morning from the WSW and blew over many of Mary’s onions, some of the corn and other stuff. Saturday there was 1.38″ of rain and Sunday 0.97″.
Continue ReadingAbout 5/9/2019, a severe thunderstorm with southerly gusts over 20 MPH blew over some of the bulb onions. I emailed Dixondale with photos for advice on what to do. Customer Service responded promptly saying that Bruce–The Onionman–looked at my photos and said he: “thinks they will stand back up, it may take a couple of […]
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4/19/2019 – The storm that roared through last night tried hard to get us as lightning struck the power pole at the street shattering the top of the pole and leaving the top lying on top of the shattered stub. Ironically the wires supplying the house were left intact so we did not lose power. […]
Continue Reading4/14/2019 – From about 2:20 to 3:20 AM a line of thunderstorms blew through with up to 32 MPH gusts and dropping 2.16″ of rain within an hour. We needed rain, especially in the garden.
Continue Reading4/4/2019 – Exactly one month ago, 3/4/2019, it rained and has been very dry since then. The large veggie garden was planted a week and half ago and the seeds have been resting in the dry dust. We have watered the beds, new plants, and new trees daily and they have done ok. The grass […]
Continue ReadingThe last rain was on 3/4/2019 and was the fourth day in a row where we had about 0.25″ each day. That was a small amount of rain after a week of dry winds. Since then the humidity has been low and the wind blowing out of the north or south. So, the flower beds […]
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