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Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on January 05, 2023, 05:20 AM:
Any one in sunny Calif being hit hard by all this moisture?
Have friends out of Santa Rosa and it looks like they are getting hammered.
Some of this moisture suppose to come up today. But it really comes in starting Sunday up here.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 05, 2023, 06:52 AM:
Send some over this way !!!!!!
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 05, 2023, 10:34 AM:
Yeah, I was up around 7 something and it's been pouring ever since. Tillie doesn't want to get wet. And the friggin' weeds are growing like weeds! I need to get some more Roundup! This is the kind of morning where curling up with a good book sounds like a good idea. You know, being warm and dry and you can hear the rain beating down. In this room, downstairs, it's the only one where I can hear the rain on the roof, the rest of the house I don't hear it because there's an upstairs. I just looked, it won't let up for another 2 1/2 hours.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on January 05, 2023, 01:31 PM:
Love a rainy night when the lightening Lites up the sky, it makes me feel good.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 05, 2023, 01:47 PM:
Hey Tim;
If you like a good lightening storm (who doesn't??) come on down this way for one of our mid-summer monsoon storms. Something you have to see to believe.
Seriously ......... I've counted 60 flashes in 60 seconds from my patio before.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on January 05, 2023, 07:08 PM:
sounds like it be really electrifying.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 05, 2023, 09:54 PM:
Yes ko ko, I've seen it and know what you are talking about, but he does not! There is nothing like AZ monsoons in Minneesota. They have cyclones though.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on January 06, 2023, 01:20 AM:
We had thunder and lightning last winter, does that count?
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 06, 2023, 02:22 AM:
No.
Try and remember that winter storm.
Now, imagine if you will, the Storm Gods out of a Frank Frazetta painting getting together to try and out drink each other and do the 'one up-manship' showing off.
"Hey, watch this" .......... CRASH
"You call that lightening ?? .......CRASH CRASH !
"You guys are punks. THIS is lightening .... CRASH CRASH CRASH !!
"Bah. Hold my Mead and watch this ...... CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH !!!!
Then, set that to Iron Butterfly's Ina-Gadda-Davida, 17 minute version, on the stereo, high volume, heavy on the bass.
THAT'S an Arizona Monsoon lightening storm !!!!
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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 06, 2023, 06:27 AM:
And don't even get me started on the sunrise this morning that lit up the snow covered Mt. Graham.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 06, 2023, 09:25 AM:
First of all; NO. AZ does not have the best sundowns. They occur in New Mexico. AZ does deserve second place, though.
Your description of monsoon doesn't come close. I dunno, it's probably impossible to describe anyway. But mostly distant flashed and the sound is so delayed that you can't associate it because 3 or 4 others from different directions have covered it with flashes of their own.
And no,, Tim. Whatever you got it's plain vanilla thunderstorms; no big deal. Not numerous, and you can easily count between the lightning and the thunder. The thing is, it doesn't light up the sky like in AZ, which I have to admit, the night shows in AZ must be unique; maybe comparable to Northern Lights, which I have seen in extreme northern Canada, and they also are damned near unexplainable, except to say, AWESOME.
Anyway, good hunting.
El Bee
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 06, 2023, 11:27 AM:
New Mexico sunsets the best ?? Maybe so .....maybe no.
But ...... N.M. being to our East, when the sun sets in the West what N.M. is seeing is the sun setting over Arizona. Clearly N.M. is getting second hand sunsets. Nice to look at but just not original.
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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 06, 2023, 05:38 PM:
Oh brother!
Sure. whatever you say. ( you obviously, have not been there, have you?
Posted by earthwalker (Member # 4177) on January 07, 2023, 04:21 AM:
I seen one of the brightest, yellow sunsets in AZ one winter's eve.
All of your rain came in night fore last and it wasn't the wet fall down. kind.
We got about 4" of that white stuff yesterday. Took over 2 hours of plowing to get the place cleaned out. More coming in starting tomorrow.
Weather peeps can't get this area even close to right. They always say maybe a half inch or less. We've been hit the hardest this year for snow and cold. Have had snow on the ground since first of November and it isn't going anywhere until March. We get some warm temps but it's never long enough to melt and do any good.
We have ice under all this snow right now. My tractor does a lot of sideways sliding while trying to plow.
Our game animals are going to take a big crash again just when we were getting some nice bucks coming back.
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on January 08, 2023, 05:56 AM:
Just read this thread and couldn't help but to think that every sunset and every sunrise you see is the best there is in all of Gods green and blue earth. Well, so much for being a soapbox preacher eh!
And the thunder storms here in Tennessee are pretty neat also.And rain!!! It does that when it does like 1-5 inches in an hour. 1 more or less the norm with up to 2 on a good one and then the now and then ones between 2-3 and a couple years ago a good 5 incher here. Washed out a lot of driveways and did what they call ponding here which must be southern for flooding. I know our creek on the property got a good foot or more over the banks. And that's about it from here.
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