Just lovely! I think I really like Brown’s ‘style’.
Major downpours yesterday afternoon & evening. The last was about 10:30 pm & the rain on the roof was a “roar”. Plenty of thunder ‘rolling’ through the skies, but no close strikes. I haven’t been out to see my little herbs yet - hope they’re not pounded into the dirt.
Next 2 days will be cool, damp & wet. We’re starting at a high of 60 & dropping all day into the 50’s. The heat is back on in the house. Here was an interesting tidbit in the local weather forecast:
“Today we may also have a few rumbles of thunder mainly south/southeast and the chance for some graupel to mix in for a few of us.”
Graupel?? First time I’ve ever seen it in a forecast - we’ve had it here a few times in years past.
Graupel: The wintry precipitation you’ve never heard of
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/12/05/graupel-the-wintry-precipitation-youve-never-heard-of/
“Graupel, which is a kind of hybrid frozen precipitation, is sometimes referred to as “snow pellets.” The National Weather Service defines graupel as small pellets of ice created when super-cooled water droplets coat, or rime, a snowflake.
Graupel pellets are cloudy or white — not clear like sleet — and often are mistaken for small hail. The most critical necessity for the formation of graupel is extremely cold air at the cloud level. This creates the super-cooled water (liquid water that exists below the freezing point), which adheres to the snowflakes.”
Graupel in May? Our weird spring weather continues!
Qiviut, what is your growing zone??
I’ve never heard that term used either, but I’m thinking it’s those little styro-looking pellets that show up sometimes with a big rain storm.
At least, ‘up here.’
Glad you liked meeting ‘Capability.’ I was reading the latest Martha Stewart Living mag the other night and she mentioned him in an article on her garden book collection, so of course I had to go look him up. :)