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Nov. 7th, 2002 02:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikAround 1pm I had the urge to leave the office. Unsure why, as it wasn't really a lunch hour. I drove around aimlessly for a bit, and finally stopped at a little park behind my office, and wandered around it. Oh. That's why.
The winds started. The front was coming in.
After a good six+ months of No Rain (and indeed no real weather other than sunny and clear), the first honest storm of the winter was on its way. No wonder I was all flinchy. It's a good thing.
I got home about 7pm and looked at the sky a bit. There's an extremely localized weather phenomenon we get in our little pocket of the Almaden Valley. A 5-mile-diameter hole opens up in the cloud layer, giving a nice round spot of clear sky that hovers over our neighborhood. It happens about 6 hours before rains fall, even if rain is already falling only a few miles away. I think it's caused by the shape of the mountains and the way they channel the winds. The air had the most wonderful new-rain fragrance.
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revar got home. Revar wanted rain too. "1 AM," I told him. "But it's been ALMOST raining the whole way home! It's going to rain any time now..." "Nope. 1AM." Later that evening, we dug the Davis weather station out of its box and hooked it up, including a new battery and a proper resetting of the datalogger. This winter's going to be recorded right, for a change. I'll post a URL for the weather-monitor page when we get it rebuilt.
12:47am. Rain starts to fall. Being a quarter-hour off isn't bad.
I can't believe how much I've missed this. *flops out on the floor, nose and horn out the back door and in the rain, just enjoying the smell*
The winds started. The front was coming in.
After a good six+ months of No Rain (and indeed no real weather other than sunny and clear), the first honest storm of the winter was on its way. No wonder I was all flinchy. It's a good thing.
I got home about 7pm and looked at the sky a bit. There's an extremely localized weather phenomenon we get in our little pocket of the Almaden Valley. A 5-mile-diameter hole opens up in the cloud layer, giving a nice round spot of clear sky that hovers over our neighborhood. It happens about 6 hours before rains fall, even if rain is already falling only a few miles away. I think it's caused by the shape of the mountains and the way they channel the winds. The air had the most wonderful new-rain fragrance.
It wasn't long before
revar got home. Revar wanted rain too. "1 AM," I told him. "But it's been ALMOST raining the whole way home! It's going to rain any time now..." "Nope. 1AM." Later that evening, we dug the Davis weather station out of its box and hooked it up, including a new battery and a proper resetting of the datalogger. This winter's going to be recorded right, for a change. I'll post a URL for the weather-monitor page when we get it rebuilt.12:47am. Rain starts to fall. Being a quarter-hour off isn't bad.
I can't believe how much I've missed this. *flops out on the floor, nose and horn out the back door and in the rain, just enjoying the smell*
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It's raining (but not pouring...)
Date: 2002-11-07 08:19 am (UTC)It's raining up here too! YEA!
*does a happy little wet-foxy dance*