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Today's Weather in Your Garden - 49
64 now going up to 77... changed our forecast to possible thunderstorms today... said can be strong ones
50 her this morning.Still showers for today
Foggy, gray skies at 60'
57 right now... Scattered thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon hours. High around 60F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Sounds like, nice again for Thursday!
cool here and had been raining
70 and sunny here. Still cool enough to make weeding not so bad.
Wow - was cloudless a couple of hours ago. Now a fierce t-storm.
Raining here.
Had a thunderstorm, not a bad one 64 here
Quite breezy here.
hail, thunder and downpours just past through
same here wah, actually it is the third one so far
Same here.
thunder storm passed through, not hail, but rain continuing.
Hail just missed us to the south---sunny now, but too wet to go out & garden---very cool again tonight!
Because of all the rain, a bumper crop of mosquitos are predicted.
No surprise there.
Rain passed thru around 3pm
time to shut the computer off again.. I see some lightning in the distance
Cool and rainy this morning... theme of the day I guess! lol
Flood warning for the county I live in.. lol!!
57 now going up to 78... thunderstorms this evening and tonight
more rain today - overcast and cool
Leightonhill......Theme of the day?? Theme of the summer!! lol
Rain, Rain and more rain but the weekend is starting to look nice. SSHHHHH...don't say it to loud!!
lol ... yes,... shhhhh...keep your fingers crossed... supposed to be nice Friday
Beautiful now. Chance of more t-storms.
From last night.
70 and sunny. We haven't had rain in a while. Ok with me however. Predicting rain late Fri.
tornado warning here is worcester county - not where i live - started raining here now - had to get off the ladder cleaning the gutters when thunder started
Torrential rain here
Rain here.. has been all day... cold too! Maybe some sun tomorrow.....
Wet off & on.
Another gem here today. Took my kids to the park near the Hudson and took this with my phone camera.
Wasn't the sky beautiful today---maybe because we forgot what blue & sunny was all about----75 & breezy today---2 blanket night again!
A+++++ day today, this is the weather I LOVE 80 low humidity sunny with a breeze
Me too. Every day should be like this. 78, breezy and about 35% humidity is perfection.
Part of another shot from last night. Looks like it was trying to spell something!
Was nice this morning when rain and thunderstorms arrived
I'm back in business.
We got hit last night with what may, or may not have been, a TORNADO!
The weather guys are still investigating.
A TORNADO! In YONKERS!!
Man! What a MESS!
Distant thunder started about 11:15 PM yesterday. I started going around closing windows. By 11:30 the skies opened. There was a river flowing down the street. I'm not talking about along the curbs... the ENTIRE street - curb to curb - had turned into a river! Then came the hail. It was SCARY!! I was sure the windows were going to break. The lights flickered, went out & came on again. About five seconds later - OFF! So there I was, plunged into darkness, with what sounded like boulders hitting the house. There were also crashing sounds coming from outside... front and back.
At about 10 min before midnight it became quiet.
I looked out the bedroom window at my garden. YIKES!!! What a mess!! Pots were overturned and there were leaves and branches all over the place. I could see cars turning around on the street so I figured there were branches blocking the way.
It turns out a really big tree across the street totally uprooted & was blocking North Broadway. It crushed 2 cars directly in its path (1 on each side of the street) and damaged the cars parked in front & behind those cars.
I tossed a raincoat over my nightgown, put on my garden clogs and ventured out. My neighbors were milling around, dazed.
In my complex a HUGE tulip tree in the front lost some large branches. None of them damaged any of the homes or the cars. The parking lot is right next to the area where the tree is. At the entrance to our parking lot, a large tree uprooted and fell against the power lines.
We were pretty lucky. There are 56 townhouses in my complex. Only 2 suffered serious damage. A tree fell and took out a fence and destroyed the deck behind the house. In another, a branch crashed through the living room window. The floor and a loveseat in front of the window were soaked and covered with glass. Some of the other homes had some water come in. Some window screens (including my mom's) were ripped apart by the hail.
We didn't get power back until 2PM this afternoon.
Here's a pic I took of my garden last night. You can see the hailstones and overturned pots. At that point, I all could see the mess. It wasn't until the next morning that I could see the actual damage. Most of the plants on the left side weren't too bad. They were protected by the fence. The rest... UGH! The sunflowers were all broken. most of the leaves, flowers and buds were stripped from the plants, leaving broken stems. The entire yard was covered with leaves from trees from all over.
Right now, I'm exhausted. I'm going to bed. I'll process some other pics later.
Nancy ("it's a twister, Auntie Em!!!!")
