I’m on the fly today, so will catch up with you all this evening. :)
It looks like what I would picture the Shire to look like in Middle Earth.
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!
CLICK ON THE PICTURE CONTAINING A SUNKEN GARDEN!
