I awoke yesterday morning to the sweet sound of thunder: it was raining! I’d seen some of that in Australia but around here it had been a while. Yesterday evening’s stormy weather didn’t dump any rain, but the winds were freakishly strong. The horizon looked eerily menacing, with black clouds swirling as if alive. If only those clouds had offered any rain.
The home weather station reports that yesterday we received an inch of rain, at times falling at 1.5 inches per hour. That brings my rain gauge’s yearly total to 4.76 inches. That’s far below the average of 12 inches this time of year, but at least its more consistent with RDU Airport. Last year our house received 5 fewer inches of rain than the airport.