Saturday June 15th 2024

I fell into the fear the forecast mode again today. This morning the hour by hour forecast for this immediate area called for rain starting in the 11AM hour. The sky was filled with clouds this morning, so it seemed very possible. Eleven came and went without any rain. The updated hourly forecast called for the rain to start at 2PM, but the forecast kept moving out until a little rain arrived shortly after 5PM.

The 5PM rain was very light and brief. It didn’t live up to the build up. I thought I’d dodged another one, but before 6PM arrived the rain, wind, thunder and lightening arrived with a great deal of ferocity. For the better part of the next hour the sound of rain on the roof of my RV home was a continuous roar and the coach rocked a bit in the wind too. I think this may have been the strongest daytime storm I’ve experienced at this site.

The storm moved out quickly. It seemed to go from downpour to nothing like turning off a faucet. I was able to take a walk around the park before dark. There was plenty of evidence of the rain. Sand and leaves along the side of the road were scared by water channels. The smaller drainage pond at the bottom of the hill was filled with water. It will likely be dry again by morning. The bigger drainage ponds just had a lot of dark mud like runoff on the grass, but no standing water.

The bottom line of all this was the ever changing forecast caused (allowed) me to do next to nothing all day. I watched a little TV, read some blither on the internet and watched the weather forecast change. Combined with a few light chores and some cooking it made for a full day.