Weather

The weather finally broke yesterday at noon. A thunderstom came down out of the west-a bad sign. Big and wide and we were in a direct line.

Still not a flicker of wind. The lower atmosphere was so dense it prevented a big updraft that can drive storm winds. I could see flashes of lightning at noon it was so dark-and we took one hit just as it passed fairly close-from the boom probably somewhere out on the pond.

We had seen a couple boating up the pond earlier the day before and their truck was still parked on the road-all I could think was that I would not liked to have weathered that storm in a tent!

Their truck was still there today-I will start to worry tomorrow if they haven't showed up.

Then it started to rain. A deluge. I announced at one point that I didn't think I had ever seen it rain so hard in my life. It was coming down so fast and hard, it was like someone dumping a zillion buckets of water from 5,000 feet.

The evening local news later said that points east were turning in reports of 4 inches of rain in a half hour-causing sudden flooding that had cars up to their windows.

We had another threatening sky build to the east around five tonight-I sort of dismissed it, as I have never seen a thunderstorm come out of the east in this area in 20 years.

Well, it went right over us, this time with a bit of wind as we actually saw the sun for a few hours today, and the updraft built a little gust. Then it poured again, but only for about ten minutes. Oh yeah, and it rained hard last night.

Things are very wet for this time of year. I usually think of August in Maine as cold and damp, but our temps here have been riding 70's. Things are so wet that after I grained and hayed the goats this morning, I was in the kitchen and felt something in my hair. I reached up and pulled out a slug. Ewwwww.

The weatherman said more of the same right through Sunday.