Next week forecast shows a few chances of a few tenths here. If we’d get .5" more in the next week, the 3/4ish acre of turnips/collards/rutabaga my neighbor and I planted today should really take off.
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We got at least 2", air is a lot cooler today. But the drought monitor is still showing dry.
Had the windows back open last night (probably first time in a month). I was cold sleeping overnight. The house t stat showed 66F. Feels so nice out there this morning. The Amish must be dancing in the fields.
Heat isn’t back until Tues and Weds.
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Lightning fried my cable MODEM and separate router. Took two trips to Walmart to get a MODEM that Spectrum liked. Then a couple hours of reconfiguration… I always forget that the Ecowitt weather station WiFi gateway is an Internet of Things (IOT) thingy and doesn’t play with 5.0 gigabit WiFi. … so, no, I don’t know how much rain we got.
Picturing Weird Al in politically incorrect costume…
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My Charter is horrible. It cuts out a few times every day and we have no idea why. It always comes back after like 10 seconds. New modem, new router… same thing. Even ran a new cable from the box into the house. The numbers on their end say nothing looks wrong. Who knows. Maybe ghosts.
Someone mentioned today almost felt like fall and I’ve got to agree. Was so nice to get a break from the heat/humidity. The long days of summer will soon be behind us.
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In the past, I’ve piled decommissioned electronic equipment on the bottom shelf of my book rack in spite of keeping the empty boxes on the fourth shelf. I needed to put more empty boxes there for the replacement MODEM and WiFi router I bought, so I had to box up some of the old equipment among which was an ADSL MODEM, which set me to reminiscing about þa gode ealde daies. ADSL was so much faster and reliable than dial-up! It was much more expensive, too, and doing away with it helped offset the cost of bringing in cable. Spectrum cable — except for rare overnight outages and Wednesday’s lightning damage — has been rock solid dependable AND quick, and I’m not just saying that! I’ve completely switched from over-the-air TV to streaming and have a brand new Roku TV to prove it, which is big enough for me to read the subtitles. (I don’t pay for subscription TV.)
As a sales associate at <a worldwide discount retailer>, I’m regularly subjected to hard-luck stories such as yours. I always tell customers, “We’re not your cable company! Talk to them!” But I can appreciate that common carriers such as Spectrum (Charter) can be just as arrogant and insensitive as your worldwide discount retailer outlet.
When folks say their cable “cuts out,” I have to ask what they mean. Usually they mean drop-outs in streaming where picture freezes or dialog hesitates or both. I always think to myself that this may not be upstream of their cable MODEM. It may be congestion in their router or contention such as when others in the house are watching programs at the same time or their computer decides to do a backup to the cloud, but it may also be due to siting of the router w.r.t. the TV — for example, they may be out of range of one another. There may be conductive furniture such as large filing cabinets located between them or close by. They may be separated by unconventional construction materials such as rebar-reinforced concrete floors or drywall on metal studs. They may even be divided by screen wire or walls clad with metal siding or shielded by metal roofing which will attenuate the signal. Signal quality between the router and the TV may vary due to local interference, too, by a whole universe of Internet-of-Things (IoT) appliances in service of home automation, any of which could go rogue at any time and swamp the streaming signal. It’s not just the neighbors’ garage door openers anymore but their constellations of IoT devices and WiFi routers and WiFi extenders and can-tennas, as well. It’s an electronically noisy world we live in. If you haven’t already, consider running Ethernet cabling between your router and your PC to get the PC off the airwaves. You may even be able to run Ethernet from your router to your TV or Blu-ray disc player to avoid WiFi interference altogether.
gosh i hope we do finally get rain. it’s been since the last time i posted in here, about a month
been in the 90s mostly with a few 100+days here and there all of July so far.
update on Tuesday- it’s raining, thunderstorms. In the 70s and low 80s a few days. good break.
The home computers are ethernet connected, but the rest of the stuff is wifi. I guess i haven’t looked to see what the ethernet connected stuff is doing when it does cut out.
We could move to cell internet which is cheaper but they limit high speed to around 1tb a month and sadly my house uses more than that. My brother has US Cellular home internet and it’s faster than my Charter.
Humidity down some today and lots of clouds. Heavy rain this week might stay far north.
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We’ve had very warm and humid weather here for a couple weeks with scattered storms. I got out today between storms to put down some grass clippings for mulch on my tomatoes. Bet we’ve had half inch of rain today, but it looks to be done for now. Rain is supposed to be done after today, but temps will be in the 90s again later.
We had a storm roll thru Friday evening and I got these pics after it passed.
This was last evening after another storm passed.
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Getting a nice rain this morning. Any of you wicked smart folks know if sulphur from wildfire smoke hits the ground when you have a smoke/ rainfall combo?
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cold front came through last night and its only 60 right now. not going to see 80 again until the weekend.
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Nother heat wave on the way
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We got a bit more than an inch of rain in just a little while.
This “dry wash” is about 30 yards wide right here. There is a good sized island in the middle that is mostly submersed in the photo. The channel, where my brother is, at back of photo is about 6.5" deep. Right in front of me or is around 5 feet deep.
I’ve always loved the monsoon season. When kids we would make dams across the washes and see whose would last the longest. Those washes weren’t this big though.
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I’ve had a dramatic weather month. In the Shenandoah Valley of VA we had drought for the last couple years, but this summer the rain has been… a lot.
After several large rainstorms, the ground was so saturated that the weight of the wet dirt damaged my foundation. In one rainstorm, the gutter fell off one side of my house. In that same storm, probably partially due to the gutter falling off, my basement flooded and my driveway was washed out.
While I was busy cleaning up from the basement flood, repairing all the damage to the driveway, and fixing up the gutters and drainage, my house took a lightning strike which has fried a bunch of appliances…
It’s been incredibly hot and humid and wet and the weeds are SO HIGH (so is my neighbor’s corn) - Finally, in the last two days, we’ve had a break from the heat and storms. Trying to catch up with the mowing and weeding a little at a time in between other things.
not a good place to be when it rains in the nearby mountains.
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year before last we had a very bad wildfire and air quality month in August i think. the rain didn’t seem to bring much trouble down on anything, though some of my greens had funk on the leaves the following days, which i hosed off. I’m not sure if it gets into the soil, but I’m hoping it doesn’t, or that it gets neutralized some. the plastic particulates look like the worst that could happen if there’s buildings burning, which is almost every wildfire here some outbuildings or houses out in the sticks get burned down.
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Ya, I can tell there’s a bunch of not good stuff in the smoke. My eyes have been on fire for days.
I was actually hoping to catch some sulfur from the rain/smoke combo. Our soils are generally low in sulfur and I end up adding gypsum
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I had 96F in my car today. Dews in the mid 70Fs. Horrible weather. Storm front moved thru late afternoon and a little rain fell/dropped temps back to the 70Fs. Much better now.
Got stung by ground bee yesterday. Ouch. Ran over nest with mower. They weren’t happy.
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