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It's a world of difference now living between 2 mountain ranges (1/2 mile from the base of one) as opposed to being a flatlander as we were previously. It's colder in the winter & Spring is at least a month later. The mountain range tends to funnel weather up the west side (we are on the east) and there has been 2 years of drought, bad enough we lost some large trees. This year, the pattern has changed & we are getting too much rain thus far, but it would not surprise me if starting in July, we stop getting rain.

The weather changes rapidly here, much more so than the previous flatland weather. The mountains can make their own weather to a degree & they also hide weather that's coming ... next thing you know, you see a black cloud starting to come across the top of the ridge ... ruh roh! You can see rain on the mountain & progressing our way. I sort of know now when I should quit watching & run for the shop or the house. We do get quite a few rainbows which I always love to see. Spring of last year, there were wildfires on the mountain. There is always something beautiful, exciting & sometimes scary going on around here!

Rain incoming:

Crazy clouds hiding mountain range after a big storm:

The latest rainbow:

NWS had us forecast for a pretty serious severe weather outbreak yesterday, but, it didn't happen. As they put it, regarding follow-up storms:

but given the way the models have handled this event, confidence is quite low.

And then we DID get storms later: Non severe, but with HEAVY rains. There's a flash flood warning just to my south. 'Tis not quite so bad here, but, about 1/3 of our yard has (shallow) standing water (ie., big puddles) in it. Again. The thunder woke me up - hopefully I'll get sleepy again shortly. ;-)

At least the severe stuff didn't materialize. I'd just removed another sizeable (~ 8" diameter where it broke off) branch from our ditch when we got back from our short camping trip. I cut it into 3 pieces and dragged those out of the ditch / away from the shoulder of the road, into the yard. Tomorrow morning I'll get back out there with the chain saw & try to co-opt daughter-san to pick up "small" pieces. Assuming we don't sink in...