The weather man says 90% chance of rain today and it is sure coming down. ☔️ It rained yesterday. Wednesday we had 1 1/2″ of rain and Monday (or was that Tuesday) we had 4″ of rain. It’s getting hard to keep track!
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. I’ve decided to learn a bit more about rain. Next I may need to read up on jungles and rain forests!
For now, here are some rainy facts…
- THIS JUST IN: In my next of the woods July broke the 1835 record for rain!
- The highest amount of rainfall ever recorded in one year is 25.4 meters (1000 inches) in Cherrapunji, India.
- Antarctica is the driest continent on Earth.
- The umbrella was originally invented to protect people from the hot sun.
- Louisiana is the wettest state in the U.S, which records an annual rainfall of 56 inches.
- On average there are over 1500 thunderstorms occurring on earth with 100 lightning strikes per second
- Rain drops do not fall in a tear drop shape, they originally fall in the shape of a flat oval.
- Rainbows are caused by the effect of sunlight on countless millions of raindrops.
- Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall in my neck of the woods (Indy) is 42.4. No doubt we are breaking records as I type!
Blooms in the rain
Here are a few rain-soaked blooms from a quick garden walk in the rain…
I think tomorrow we have NO RAIN in the forecast … let’s just say I am looking forward to that.
I am itching to get my hands dirty!
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EXTRA! EXTRA!
I was so honored this week when a local paper, The ICON, ran an article about me. If you’d like to read it, click here, open PDF and go to page 12.
