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Nice weather, this weekend. Nice enough yesterday that my decision for dinner was BBQ!

What's up with the deformed kernels in the middle? Ate it anyway! Delicious.


Nothing deformed about these...

Most areas of the world have a holiday in May. In many parts of the world, it's May Day. In the USA, it's Memorial Day. Here in Canada it's Victoria Day, named after a long-dead queen of England.
Here, taken at noon Friday just as the long weekend was getting started, is a picture taken at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, less than an hour up the road from home. Our local weather critter promised 4 sunny days and higher than usual temperatures, so this will be one of the most pleasant Victoria Day holiday weekends in living memory. For those who like to be oriented, you're looking almost due west.

Rob

It got a little damp last night! We got 2.7 inches of rain overnight and now my neighbor has a pond in his back yard. I'm sure that will give rise to a lot of mosquitoes! Bring on the dragonflies!

Still probably not as damp as Northern Florida and Southern Georgia. Tropical Storm Beryl made landfall around Jacksonville, FL about 2:00 am EDT. Not even the official start of hurricane season and there have already been two named storms.

So far the northern area of KC has been dry, and the southern area has been wet! So far rainfall totals for south KC are over 7 inches, while up north it has not even broken the 1-inch line, even after that rainstorm a few days ago that dumped at least three inches of rain and caused flooding in Lee's Summit and Belton!

But anyway, not much going on here, except for wind, sun, and humidity.

Hot and humid here, with pop-up thunderstorms last night in some areas, including mine, though I thought they'd miss us. Meant a mad scramble to get cushions in off the patio, and oh, yeah, a cat that most definitely did not want to be outside anymore!

First of all: Rob, thanks for posting that lovely picture of a lighthouse by the sea!

Here in Malmö, the weather has been absolutely lovely for a little more than a week. The temperature has generally varied between 21 and 26 degrees Celsius, and we have had sunshine almost all the time. I couldn't ask for lovelier weather.
(I went down to the pond opposite our largest library to look and listen to the frogs again, and seriously, the frogs were like mad! I've never heard such a fantastic, resounding frog symphony! But I didn't see them so well, because they were sitting in the reeds, and I would have to walk down to the water's edge and brave a group of nettles in order to get a good look. Since I was wearing a skirt, I decided against it. But I could see the ones taking a break from the strains of mating by swimming around in the pond, doing their little breaststroke.

Also, everything is just so incredibly beautiful right now, when all trees and bushes put out new young fresh light green leaves, and the leaves are still totally unscathed and soft as a baby's bottom. Some trees called (in Latin) Paulownia tomentosa are full of blue-violet flowers, and the pink hawthorn by the canal in the old cemetery in central Malmö is fantastic.)

But now the lovely weather is over, and our meteorologists can say when it will return. The temperature will drop by 10-15 degrees, and we will have rain and windy weather.

Ann

It has been lovely shorts and tee shirt weather here for over a week too Ann . . I don't mean the shorts are lovely, but the weather , although the shorts aren't so bad!

This is a picture I took yesterday morning of buttercups in one of the fields. All the wildflowers are growing fast now and the butterflies are really making the most of them.

Sorry to hear your fine warm spell is over for the time being.

Goodness, Starstruck, I love that picture!!! (And I'll try to insert the heart when I can access my computer at home. It clearly doesn't seem to be working on the computer I have here!)

Okay, here goes: ♥♥♥ Starstruck's picture ♥♥♥

Ann

Just got hammered by golf ball to tennis ball sized hail. Still under a tornado watch.

No more thunderstorms in the metro area. Some broken windows in the neighborhood. Lots of small tree branches down. My car has a few new dents. Came through it all relatively unscathed.

Ouch, does your neighborhood look like a war zone like mine did when we got hit by softball sized hail?

Torrential downpour here; flash floods in the area to follow, I'm sure.

It's been rainy and quite chilly this past week with temperatures mainly in the 50's and 60's F.; but it is supposed to start warming up today with temps. in the low 80's.

The weather that came through yesterday was destructive; the 11 PM news was filled with stories of people being rescued from high water (including three kids swept into a stream), fires caused by lightning strikes, flooding on major roads including the Beltway, trees down, and a couple or three confirmed tornadoes and a few funnel cloud candidates which hadn't been classified yet. I think this must have been what was left over from bystander's car-denting storm, though so far as I know, hail was not reported around here.

This was the heaviest rains I've seen, much heavier than what we get with hurricanes. We need rain, but maybe not quite like that. Today is gorgeous, though, and tomorrow is supposed to be, too.

owlice wrote:The weather that came through yesterday was destructive; the 11 PM news was filled with stories of people being rescued from high water (including three kids swept into a stream), fires caused by lightning strikes, flooding on major roads including the Beltway, trees down, and a couple or three confirmed tornadoes and a few funnel cloud candidates which hadn't been classified yet. I think this must have been what was left over from bystander's car-denting storm, though so far as I know, hail was not reported around here.

This was the heaviest rains I've seen, much heavier than what we get with hurricanes. We need rain, but maybe not quite like that. Today is gorgeous, though, and tomorrow is supposed to be, too.

I'd heard that the DC area was once a lowland swamp and that if Man vanished from the area, it would revert back to swamp land almost immediately

Only partly true. There are some parts of DC that are reclaimed, but most of it isn't, and that's really obvious when driving down, for example, 14th or 16th streets; these are quite steep. Of course the Potomac is the low point -- amply demonstrated to me when I biked the parallel C&O towpath and it sank in that any time I left the towpath, I had to bike uphill -- so the land slopes down to the river, but it's only a couple of areas close to the river in DC that were swampy.

I think I even posted a map here, or maybe neufer did, showing DC before the reclamation. Will have to look for it.

We recently had a little more than a week of absolutely lovely weather, with lots of sunshine and temperatures between 22 and 26 degrees Celsius. Personally I can't ask for lovelier weather.

Yes, but since last Tuesday the weather has been completely different, windy, cloudy and with temperatures varying between 10 and 14 degrees Celsius. Unfortunately for us here in Malmö, we have got very little rain out of the thick clouds. Today, at last, we got about 6 millimeters of rain.
But when I helped my best friend get rid of weeds in her "gardening plot" - a piece of land, perhaps ten by ten meters, for growing vegetables, flowers and the like, located some distance from one's home - I noticed that it was only the top 3-5 centimeters of the soil that had become moist thanks to the rain. Underneath the top layer, the soil was as dry as dust.

Well, the weather has been worse in other parts of Sweden than it has been in Malmö today and yesterday. On the six o'clock news, the news anchor actually used to word "Lappland" to say that parts of northern Sweden got twenty centimeters of snow yesterday!
And because the self-satisfied people of Stockholm tend to irritate me, I couldn't help smiling at the fact that temperatures in Stockholm never rose above 6 degrees Celsius today, on June 2, 2012. That's really cold for a day in June. In fact, it was the coldest maximum daytime temperature in Stockholm since 1928! Today the Stockholm Marathon race was held, and thousands of people took part, but quite a few of them didn't finish the race. It was just too cold, windy and rainy.

Ann

Ah.... a free natural shower and blow dry. Then they made a clean exit from the race. Mother nature can be really helpful, can't she

The weather is fine here, but I just wish that it could stay like that for the transit!

50% chance of rain is our current forecast for Tuesday.

owlice wrote:50% chance of rain is our current forecast for Tuesday.

Going by your 'smiley', your glass is half empty! Mine is half full . . only 50% chance here too , according to the forecast for tuesday, but it's 90% today . . and it's raining heavily now. Ah well, either way, I expect it'll be 100% cloud cover.

Overcast for Tuesday and Wednesday here, they say.

Beyond, you're right - some of the runners sure made a "clean" exit from the race!

Ann

The sky is dark and looks as though it might rain. It better clear out in the next three hours, because I will have sixteen kittens and a cow if I don't get to see this transit with my own eyes. Got my eclipse shades , got my binocs^*; I'm ready for Venus to knock off my socks!

(You hear that, clouds? Go away! Leave! Vamoose!!)



^*not that I am using the two together, please note; that would be a blinding experience