Oh Hail!
Woman in the Middle | March 31, 2016March is supposed to come in like a lion and leave like a lamb. Instead, we seem to be having a March that came in like a lamb and left like a lion (and thanks to Karen for pointing that out!).
Two days ago we had a weird storm blow through in the evening. It was one of these where if you looked one way you could see blue sky, and the other way nothing but dark angry clouds. It came from the south/south east and thanks to Facebook we knew what was coming. Folks already in the midst of the storm were posting things like “heavy rain” and “we have hail!” Sure enough, in came the rain, falling in big drops, then came the hail!
While I did turn off my sprinkles, as I do every chance I get, it was, unfortunately, a short rain and we didn’t get all that much water from it. El Nino has been a total bust for us their year. A professor from a local university was quoted in the paper about how unprecedented it was for an El Nino of that magnitude to produce so little rain.
In addition to rain and hail, we had cool weather as well. It was cool yesterday, too, but will be warming up starting today. I have a feeling we may have just had the last of “winter” weather (as much as we ever get here) and it is now on to summer.
Hope you are having a good week. What is the weather like in your neck of the woods?
The lion is stomping around here too!
Ha ha, I got your pun, “Oh hail!” My grandma used to say, “Oh hell!” and it sounded like, “Oh hail!”
Well, I hope you’re wrong about El Nino being over because we still need the rain. On Tuesday, there was the most spectacular rainbow I had ever seen! It was so huge and vibrant I could see houses through it, the color of yellow because that part of the rainbow was in front of them. And then there was a paler rainbow right next to it. Both covered the sky. Astounding! =-O
Beautiful spring days here with occasional rain….perfect spring weather. Hope you get agood drenching soon.