Category Archives: weather

Streaks of Rain

Hearing from neighbors of amounts of rain last night from 1 to 1.5 inches across only about 30 miles, I wondered what patterns it made. This interesting precipitation map from National Weather Service shows streaks of rain, with people a few miles apart getting different amounts. Not surprisingly, they resemble radar maps from last night.

Swamp Still Full, Dog Ecstatic

Fay filled the swamp, but it’s been a week now, so time to check. Why yes, the swamp is still full, and the dog is ecstatic?

Picture by Gretchen, 7 Sep 2008

How do you tell when a 100 pound Rotweiller is ecstatic? When she turns into an alligator.

The water is down a couple of inches as you can see by the watermarks, but it’s still pretty full.

Fay Meets Canopy

Quarterman Road canopy after 5 inches of rain from tropical storm Fay, 12:48 PM Saturday 23 August 2008:

And after 4 more inches (9 total), 7:50 AM Monday 25 August 2008:

More water in the ditches; otherwise about the same.

Pictures by jsq.

Swamp full; dog happy

Why yes, the swamp is full, and the dog is happy about it:

This picture doesn’t demonstrate that the dog can swim, because our boots weren’t that tall.

In any case, thanks to 9 inches of rain from tropical storm Fay.

Pictures by Gretchen.

Cypress Swamp: Dry, Filling….

Here’s a dry cypress swamp, with human for scale (hi Clayton):

That was on Monday 18 August. Here’s the same swamp on Saturday, 23 August, after 4 inches of rain from tropical storm Fay, this time with human and dog for scale:

Fay dropped 5 more inches of rain on the swamp since then. Stay tuned to see if the dog can swim.