Only a few days after last week’s photos, the tall grass is nearly covered by water. Like most of the eastern US, we’ve had a lot of rain and cold, cloudy weather this spring. The day of this photo, the heavens opened and poured out water from mid-day on. Driving home from work, the rain was so intense, the wipers couldn’t clear the windshield. The only visibility was a brief glance right as the wipers wiped.
That followed days and nights of alternating torrents and slow, steady rain – with occasional tantalizing bits of blue sky and sunshine just to remind us what we were missing.
The next morning, it looked like this. Turns out we had 3.48 inches of rain in 24 hours. A ‘twenty-five year storm,” accompanied by floods, mudslides, and closed roads. That was only the 6th heaviest 24-hour rainfall recorded, but it was enough to make this our wettest spring ever.
My World is definitely waterlogged this week.
Holy moly! Time to get the hip boots out!
The wettest at least in white-man memory. That is what climate is all about, it always throws up surprises.
I’m just glad you got home safely.
Hi there – I always think it must be so difficult sitting there watching a flood move towards you – not that its happened in Melbourne for a while!
It never rains but it pours!
Stewart M
Fortunately, this was nearly the highest point. The waters retreated the next day.
That is a lot of water, and a lot of green! You have some nice shots. We have been so dry this spring, it seems so strange to see all the flooding. Our rains come in the summer afternoons, or with a hurricane!
Wow, Wren, that is a whole lotta watta. I hope it dries up soon.
We’ve had more rain than usual this spring, too, but no floods. Whew, because the land here contains a lot of clay, and doesn’t absorb much moisture, so the roads turn into overflowing rivers.
Your description of the drive home reminded me of driving home one day in ’03. Visibility was so bad, I pulled off the highway under an overpass, and waited there until the rain let up enough for me to see with my wipers on high speed. I’ll never forget it.
— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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Our local paper had a story about a man fishing for carp (successfully) on a flooded soccer field. That’s too much water!
Hope the rain will hold up for some time so you get the sun – great photos showing how wet it is
Bright and sunny yesterday, and hot as the dickens. No mild, pleasant spring weather this year. Straight from cold and rainy to hot, hot, hot.
Great shots and the skies here in Seattle have been their usual gray with these brief glimpses of some blue, or a beautiful sunset as that reminder of what we’re missing the other 20-22 hours a day!! Hopefully, we’ll both see more sun in the weeks to come! Enjoy your week!
Sylvia
That’s a ton of rain to have all at once. Driving in it must have been scary. Everything looks very green and vibrant.
Wonderful shots. Nice observation of the changes.
Weather is crazy everywhere! Beach season is already starting earlier in Portugal, with temperatures on the low 30ºs C and the ‘bay watch’ guys controlling things since May 1st. Last saturday we had such a big storm causing floods and a lot of damage everywhere and it’s still raining now, as if we were in the tropics!
Oh that does not look like a lot of fun! Beautiful green though. That “tantalizing big of sun peeking through….” picture is a nice contrast and along with the other really gives the feeling of what your spring has been like.