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On and off cumulus fractus in the early day replaced by nimbos in the afternoon: interesting lighting conditions in between. I like this time of the year, except lately these past days there was a torrential downpour. Lots of flooding here in New Jersey.
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here(central Florida) we have the same weather as always;clear blue sunny sky,thinksunny 16 and N-1.It's a piece of paradiseand I don't have to work anymore;I'm living the dreamand love it!25C at the moment
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Does central Florida have a better climate than parts of California or are they about the same? Which is the nicer place to live?
Saw the first dragonflies of the year today!
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Had a Tornado warning in our county - it's now a few counties to the East of us. Then again, what is a "warning" now is what was a "watch" when I was a kid. I love thunder storms.
It's pouring pretty hard, off and on, and our street is now a small river. We're trapped! lol. I had to pull the garbage cans back into the garage so they don't float away, then change into dry cloths. They were at the curb, but the tree-lawn is now ankle-deep in water. I did see a couple plastic garbage bins float down the street and try to turn down a side road before getting stuck where the currents are meeting. A neighbor across the street rescued them & put them in my yard so they are not in the middle of the street.
Pickups and SUV's keep blasting down the road. No one has stalled yet, but the water is to the floor-pan of a real van (not mini-van). There is a storm-sewer grating right in front of our apron, and water is coming out of it. I walked down the street (in the lawns) and water in the street is two-feet deep in some areas.
Great photo opportunities, but it's dark, and I'm not taking a camera out in this. I tried with my cell phone, but it focused on the falling rain
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The back yard is starting to flood now, lol. The subdivision I live in was built circa 1970. We've had far worse storms over the years, but only had the flooding problems in the past 5 or 10, when the city decided to stop maintaining the sewers and started allowing cluster homes on an infrastructure meant for regular-sized homes and lots.
We have an empty crawl-space, no basement, so we are not worried, and we were kind of laughing at it. However, I feel bad for people about 500-feet each way down the street, as the flooding is worse, and their ground floors are at yard level - plus a lot have finished basements.
I am sure there will be a lot of damage from this. Tomorrow is trash collection, and there will be a lot of couches set out. Sad what has become of our city. I'm going to call work tonite to let them know if I'm not in tomorrow, it's because the water hasn’t receded.
At least I don't live in Parma (Ohio). I've seen water flow uphill there.
It's pouring pretty hard, off and on, and our street is now a small river. We're trapped! lol. I had to pull the garbage cans back into the garage so they don't float away, then change into dry cloths. They were at the curb, but the tree-lawn is now ankle-deep in water. I did see a couple plastic garbage bins float down the street and try to turn down a side road before getting stuck where the currents are meeting. A neighbor across the street rescued them & put them in my yard so they are not in the middle of the street.
Pickups and SUV's keep blasting down the road. No one has stalled yet, but the water is to the floor-pan of a real van (not mini-van). There is a storm-sewer grating right in front of our apron, and water is coming out of it. I walked down the street (in the lawns) and water in the street is two-feet deep in some areas.
Great photo opportunities, but it's dark, and I'm not taking a camera out in this. I tried with my cell phone, but it focused on the falling rain
.The back yard is starting to flood now, lol. The subdivision I live in was built circa 1970. We've had far worse storms over the years, but only had the flooding problems in the past 5 or 10, when the city decided to stop maintaining the sewers and started allowing cluster homes on an infrastructure meant for regular-sized homes and lots.
We have an empty crawl-space, no basement, so we are not worried, and we were kind of laughing at it. However, I feel bad for people about 500-feet each way down the street, as the flooding is worse, and their ground floors are at yard level - plus a lot have finished basements.
I am sure there will be a lot of damage from this. Tomorrow is trash collection, and there will be a lot of couches set out. Sad what has become of our city. I'm going to call work tonite to let them know if I'm not in tomorrow, it's because the water hasn’t receded.
At least I don't live in Parma (Ohio). I've seen water flow uphill there.
We had some nasty storms Sunday into Monday. The worst stuff (including some tornados) just missed us. I don't mind thunderstorms, but I do NOT like high winds with them or swirling wind. I'll take a Nor'easter over a tornado or high straight line wind any day.
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I've not lived in California, but even if the temperatures were similar, the humidity here is godawful in the summer. And, California has to be thought of in two if not three zones, doesn't it? SoCal is much warmer than NoCal as far as I can tell.
The temps between So Cal and Nor Cal can be similar year around excluding our coastal areas, they do run cooler. We do have options of going to higher elevations at times and getting cooler temps, but it can be a bit of a drive depending upon where you're at. So Cal in the summer can flat be torture 100 to 120 degrees, again, depending upon where you're at. Death Valley holds the record at 134.
The bluebells are loving the sunshine!
Yes, in 1913. Death Valley (Badwater) is also the lowest (official) elevation in North America at -282-ft/-86-m below nominal sea level. So it's heating by compression because the column of air above it is higher, and thus weighs more, than anywhere else in the continent.
The valley is a magnificent example of down-dropped fault block topography, also known as horst-and-graben, or basin-and-range, topography. It's caused by an extensional pulling apart of the North American Plate in the region which causes a thinning of the earth's crust.
Driving into the monument is dramatic as one keeps descending into new valleys (the down-dropped basins) that just keep getting deeper and deeper. It's eerie to then stand at Badwater and look waaay up the side of the adjacent cliff to see the small sign that says "Sea Level". And there aren't too many inland places you can drive and see roadside signs like this one.
Even more bizarre is the fact the highest elevation point in the contiguous United States, 14,505-ft/4,421-m Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is only about 85-mi/137-km away. It's an amazing place to behold.
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Ken, here is a look at both spots you've outlined.
Wow. Those are beautiful. Are they yours?
Ken
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Yes, thank you for your kind comment. These are both with Mamiya RB67 ProSD and Velvia 50.
The weather here is blackflies, swarms of them. I don't think I've seen them this bad in town before. I've seen them much worse in the woods.
Hopefully, it's due to less BTI treatments - which reduce the blackflies, but also reduce the crawfish, newts, frogs and etc. that live in the same creeks. I'll gladly donate some blood to see the other little critters come back
Hopefully, it's due to less BTI treatments - which reduce the blackflies, but also reduce the crawfish, newts, frogs and etc. that live in the same creeks. I'll gladly donate some blood to see the other little critters come back
Lots of rain....I can hear the grass grow...
Now that I am back in Southern California and away from Virginia, the weather is wonderful! So is retirement
We're under a tornado watch until 1 am (started early this morning) and have already had one decently strong storm come through with hail. There was reportedly a tornado that touched near here, but I only have that 2nd or 3rd hand. The clouds look really cool, but I'd still prefer a New England snow storm to a tornado.
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Another rough day in Southern California ...
Not really sure how reinforced it is, but there is an interior bathroom in the basement as well as the whole basement being underground with no windows. We didn't build this house. If we were intending to stay here forever, we'd build a house with a bunker that has its own generator, etc We ended up losing power at 9:15 local time (Central) and had stormy stuff until at least 2ish. We lost some tree branches and have hail damage to the siding on the brand new garage, but that's the worst of it. The guy next door had his large garage ripped apart (wasn't super sturdy, but would have taken some serious wind hitting it just right to do what it did). Some 2x4s made like lawn darts and parts of the roof were ¼ mile away.
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