There's Always The Weather

[Dave (imported)]

I had rainy weather. In fact it's still rainy here.

Bah!

[moi621 (imported)]

Light drizzle to rain showers this AM.

Unheard of for S. California in the merry month of May.

Could it be El Nino's apology for a no show this real, rainy season?

Moi

PS Anyone hear from the late, RiverLava?

I wrote, no reply.

[Paolo]

It's the monsoon season here, it seems.

Rain, rain, rain.

It will stop eventually, then we'll be a desert until fall.

[moi621 (imported)]

Got a whole quarter of an inch, maybe a tad less over hours.

Inland areas out in the flat desert areas experienced floods.

No where for the water to drain. No slope.

Those places need "pumps" for flash flood problems.

MacTheWolf

Did YOU flood today?

Moi

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

No rain here, just smoke as heavy as fog this morning. --FLO--

[Dave (imported)]

Alternating between days of rain and partially cloudy. It is spring and there's always lots of rain around here. My grass is growing like gangbusters. All the trees are leafing up and the flowers are blooming. Plus the animals are celebrating spring whoooopie season. Except the deer. They do it in the Autumn.

[moi621 (imported)]

"They" call it, May Gray.

I've usually known it as June Gloom

because it is reliable June weather.

Solid gray sky except for a few hours of sun in the mid late afternoon.

The reason I like this weather to hang around as long as possible

is because afterwards, it is Summer. Hot, Hot, Summer.

And Hot Summer here can last well into November.

Best Sweet Shelling Pea season ever.

Except the shells were sweet too and letting them ripen further cost sweetness in the shell as well as the pea.

Best deveined and eaten raw. The whole thing. Cooking, even just a few minutes of steaming, destroys them.

The Loquats are finishing and the boysenberries are beginning.

Some corn is ripening while other corn is just growing as it should.

Moi

[Paolo]

We've got a frost advisory for tonight and probably tomorrow, too.

Gray, cold, windy, rain ... lovely weather for the middle of May.

With what few fields are planted, a frost right now would be a disaster. Of course, the rest are ready for rice, sown by hand, as you can't even get a pony into any of the mud bogs without sinking.

[Dave (imported)]

Same here -- Wet and cold for a couple days.

[moi621 (imported)]

They call it, "May Gray".

But, it sure looks like "June Gloom".

As if the Gray Time occurring a month early isn't enough,

my Royal Apricots that usually ripen at the end of June,

are currently ripe.

Well maybe our Autumn will arrive before December this year.

I mean it didn't cool down until late, late 2015 and then we had some

very decent "Chill Hours".

Of course we all know what happened to the prediction of

El Ninozilla rainfall

Moi