Yes, We Had No Rain Today

For several days now the weather forecast has been for thundershowers, but the reality has been rather disappointing. The mornings have been beautiful, with wonderful blue skies that slowly grows a few fluffy clouds that shine with summer whiteness. They grow and late afternoon they begin to glower with the threat of rain that is all bluff.

Slowly they drift to the east with nary a drop of water falling to earth. Ah, but that doesn't mean it didn't rain. The clouds get heavy with water and finally begin to leak and you can see the dark drift of rain falling from them, but it never reaches the earth. The air is as dry as the ground, and greedily absorbs the moister evaporating it before it can reach the thirsty earth. Perhaps tonight, or maybe tomorrow morning more clouds will pass and will be more generous.


Yeah, those little wisps coming down from the clouds in the middle and right of the picture are the virga. Perhaps as they move east the rain will intensify sufficiently for a few drops to fall, what we call a 4 inch rain, one drop every four inches.

I won't complain too much, we have had several heavy showers, and things are turning green and some of the wild flowers are beginning to crop up. And we still have a couple of more days of forecast showers, so perhaps we shall be lucky and God will bless us with a good deluge or two.

Mike L