I don’t know if it’s a harbinger of an early Monsoon or not but we had one hell of a thunderstorm sweep through here yesterday. The sort of storm where I unplug all the indoor electronics and worry about my power system. According to the rain gauge on the weather station, which I’ve never entirely believed because I think it undercounts, we got over half an inch of rain in less than half an hour. Erosion happened before my very eyes. And poor Tobie…
…was a very unhappy little camper. I’ve never had a dog that was blasé about thunder but Tobie hates it so much he gets unsettled every time there’s any rain at all, even a gentle shower. If it’s hard enough to hear the drops hitting the roof, he goes Condition Red. And we had one thunderclap that had me heading under the bed.
Lots of mud during this morning’s walkie. The rain threatened for days before it came, and it’s forecast to rain again today but the morning dawned so clear and still that…
I decided to catch up the laundry while I could. Actually by Thursday things are supposed to go back to clear and hot. But while the forecasters are usually accurate as to what’s going to happen, they’re pretty slipshod as to when. So I’m getting some clean skivvies while I can.
Poor boy. Our dogs would start crying as soon as they heard the first roll of thunder in the distance.
Thundercoat?
It was heavy rain, fierce winds, and 0.5 – 0.75″ hail for fifty minutes straight. Multiple flood warnings coming on my phone all night.
I’m in Mohave County.
The cloud to cloud lightning was spectacular. The entire sky at all points of the compass would light up. No sharp cracks of thunder, just distant growling.
Kat-the-dog can hear cloud-to-cloud thunder far better than we can. Unlike our previous border collie, she doesn’t completely freak out, but barks to get Dad to fix the noises. A very slight improvement.
OTOH, very little thunder so far this season. Not looking forward to consequences of a wet spring and a promised hot summer. Yeah, she hates smoke, too. And insists that I fix it. Sigh.