As I understand it, there’s a high altitude, high pressure system sitting over our region, which is holding a system of heavy rain over our homestead. I’m no weather expert, but this seems strange to me—particularly as we’re getting tails of tropical storms moving into the area at the same time. If the high keeps things stationery, how can new weather move in?
Whatever the cause, we’re getting higher than normal temperatures, and torrents of rain. And, the forecasters say this should last into the new year.
Our rain gauge records 2.3″ of rain in the 24 hours prior to Thursday morning (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
As I write this, the heavy rains of the last few days are actually easing somewhat. Heavy cloud cover has kept the solar array from generating much power; we’ve run the wind generator almost constantly as a result.
In fact, the wind’s blowing so hard that we’re actually seeing a bit of blue sky above 10+ foot seas. I’m beginning to think I should try to brake the generator before it blows even harder . . . .
The red skies of the other day proved to be a warning after all (see Dwindling Daylight). We’re headed toward a typically green Christmas if things stay as forecast (see A Winter Wonderland, Southeast Alaska Style).
The southern view earlier today, raindrops on the lens and all. The wind had just started blowing at this point, and had yet to build (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
At least we will have no water worries this winter (see Fresh Water: Collecting and Conserving a Precious Resource). And, while we light fires to keep things dry, we’re not using a lot of firewood to warm the house for now!