Batten down the hatches!
Sez the US Weather Service:
* From 1 PM MST this afternoon through late tonight
* near-record levels of moisture will result in heavy rainfall with any thunderstorms that develop this afternoon and evening. Localized accumulations over one inch in a very short amount of time may lead to flash flooding.
You should see the black mass to the east. Something bloody scary this way comes. The sky is grumbling and mumbling angrily, and it’s wayyyy too early for those shenanigans: only 5:00 p.m.
Locally, only Faux News is covering the storm, amazingly enough. But maybe not: local news coverage is basically dead. The National Weather Service is reporting it, but in a technical way that most of the troglogdytes couldn’t begin to figure out. This is why we need strong local news media.
Oh well. We do have dogs. The dogs are visibly scared. Managed to get them fed and wrung out. Now they’re hiding in the house.
Welp, I’d better go disconnect the computers from their power sources and check that the lanterns have batteries.
Enjoy, those of you who live in more temperate climes! 😀
Image: DepositPhotos, © outsiderzone
Keep your head down. Hope your yard doesn’t flood.
Weirdly, we had hardly any rain in this part of the valley. We’re in the rain shadow of the North Mountains (mounds that any other part of the country would call “hills”), and the storm seemed to split in two and flow around us.
This afternoon high clouds again threatened; with temps around 104 and humidity supposedly at 42% (??? per Wunderground), it was like a sauna outdoors. Again, though, the storms passed without dropping a bit of rain here.