Meteorological fact
Outside blog headquarters, yesterday afternoon around 5:30, it rained. Just a few drops, for about two minutes, amidst brilliant sunshine. It was the first rain we've seen in more than a month and a half. It really happened.
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Comments (9)
Rain drops fell in Beaumont about the same time.
Posted by will | September 15, 2012 8:55 AM
Not over here in NW; but we woke up one morning early this week to wet streets, and I don't think it was Randy flushing.
Posted by Allan L. | September 15, 2012 9:01 AM
It rained Monday, just 5 days ago
Memory slipping a bit?
Posted by T | September 15, 2012 9:38 AM
Same story along Prescott/Alberta around the same time. The Mrs. and I looked at each other for a second and said, "Is this rain?", like we'd never seen the stuff before. Another weird meteorological moment here in the NEP.
Posted by John Dudrey | September 15, 2012 9:39 AM
It rained Monday, just 5 days ago
Gong! Another correction of something I never wrote. I wrote that yesterday was the first rain that I had seen since July, which is true.
Posted by Jack Bog | September 15, 2012 10:21 AM
Perhaps it was condensate coming from a downwind bathhouse?
Posted by Abe | September 15, 2012 10:27 AM
It was a short shower of big splatty drops that originated from one big cloud. I take full blame. I had just washed the car two hours earlier...
Posted by PDXLifer | September 15, 2012 11:05 AM
And one of those big ol' drops must have landed in the wrong place. There was a power outage in NE Portland in the Delta Park area, and we actually had to cancel softball games last night.
Posted by umpire | September 15, 2012 11:45 PM
Gong! Correction! "It's the first rain we've seen". The ubiquitous "we". Well, we should (imho) include those of "us" who post here, and I for one can attest to two instances of rain before yesterday, in the past 5 months: One an actual accumulation of water in a lounge chair and Two, spatters of craters in the dust left from a recent sewer project on my property. So "we've" seen at least three instances, collectively, AFAIK. (No, I didn't see the rain that made the craters but circumstantial evidence and all that!)
Given the paucity of water from the skies, let's count all our blessings!
Posted by Starbuck | September 16, 2012 11:19 AM