marsman

a much needed 1.13"

40.1 at 6:50am. Still not the coldest of the season yet, need to go below 39. Hit that on 10/18.

71.9 at 3:20 pm. Don't know how to say it, but there's the "summer bug sounds" going on outside.

71.6 today at 3:50pm. 0.01" from the showers this morning.

I've been changing the soft top to the hard top on my Jeep in late October for the past 5 years. I don't see me putting the hard top on anytime soon this year. Yes.... but... no.

High of 85.5 on 10/7 Low of 39.1 on 10/18 Halloween: 80.7/66.5 Rain: 0.27", 0.23" fell on one day.

Surprising .23" overnight! Water bill will still be astronomical, still have a lot in the garden and put down some fall grass seed.

Oscar?

39.1 yesterday at 5:40 am for a low. 40.7 this morning at 7:20. First 30's of the season here too. Total rain for the month so far: 0.03".

Just barely saw the pinkish hue in the sky last night. Couldn't get my old Nikon to power up, otherwise would have taken a few shots. 43.5 this morning at 7:40. Trying to keep the HVAC off as long as possible! I think I can do it with the right windows open/closed schedule.

I mentioned the radar gap for the Charlotte, NC area during the Helene floods, and I believe there's a significant radar gap in the Ft. Myers/Cape Coral area. With the huge population increase in the past decades it could use one.

May have just seen a Tornado cross Pine Island Road over Matlacha. Local news had it on their stream.

I've been calling it Toxic Positivity and Confirmation Bias. Seen it for decades everywhere from CA to FL to NY.

Until Charley in 2004, I heard a lot of "we're protected on the West Coast" and "they can't get that strong in the Gulf". Didn't hear it so much after that and the 2005 season.

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