2" In An Hour

The recent weather here has been very tropical, hot and humid. The humidity usually leads to heavy tropical rain. Yesterday was a stinker with temperatures in the back yard heading towards the mid 30's (90's Lou Ann). Our small backyard doesn't get too much of a breeze. The air con ran for much of the afternoon. The pool was the place to be though at about 27 degrees. Then at about 5:30 pm the clouds began to roll in. The camera tends to automatically lighten dark shots so it was much darker than this snap shows!

The satellite TV went off, the clouds being too thick to allow any signal through. And then down came the rain. I managed to sneak out and check the total at about 7 pm and there were 50mls in the gauge. The pool was almost overflowing!

Much of yesterday was spent reformatting Trish's laptop. After a couple of false starts it took me somewhere between 5 and 6 hours to do. It now loads in about 2 and a half minutes compared to the 10 minutes it used to take!