Friday Garden Blogging
Muggy & stormy
Lightning-laced downpour at 2:10 pm
We had a direct hit by a strong storm cell this afternoon:SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Looks like nearly an inch, about 20 mm, of rain fell in about a half hour. I just checked the radar and we're under the gun for more pretty soon.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME
206 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU MAINE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
* UNTIL 245 PM EDT.
AT 203 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VEAZIE...OR ABOUT NEAR BANGOR AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
On a sad note, my trusty Olympus C-5060 is very ill with system failure. It does just barely function in program mode, so I was able to take the pretty-good picture you see above. But I can't get it's macro focus mode to work any more. Oly will be retired and replaced by next week. He'll be sorely missed.
