I got hit today also with rain. Just watching the radar looked intense. I had just emptied that last of my rain barrel last night. Hoping they got refilled with this one!

Got just under a inch from the storms that rolled thru early this morning (Sunday).

Seems like the rain days are getting further and further apart. Florence seemed to suck a lot of the moisture out. Typical Fall season. Overall, for me, it has been a great rainy year. That august drought had me scared a little bit, but my drag hosing was minimal work. Most my yard is under shade and well naturally mulched. That helps also.

Well the formatting on the table of this morning's weather summary that I tried to paste in didn't take. Anyway, average rain at Melbourne from 1-Sept to 27-Sept is 7.13". They've gotten 1.63" so far this month. That is more typical of a dry-season total. But we aren't in the dry season. The dewpoint is staying above 75 degrees most days.

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Edited: 09/28/2018 at 05:42 PM by scombrid

Yes, been dry. But, still have water in my rain buckets. But, not for too much longer....NEED RAIN...

An itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny shower. There's been just enough rain to avoid having to water the grass, but it's starting to go brown.

I got an overnight shower. Looks to have filled the rain buckets. I'm good for another week! LOL.

Got a shower each of the last two nights. The mimosa that had gone dormant is perking up. Better than nothing but not good to be getting dry season levels of rain when it is still quite hot and humid. You know, the last September and early October that was this hot and humid but rain-free was 2009. Remember winter 2010? The blocking pattern that is giving us this weather and stalling Leslie out over the open Atlantic for ever and ever is the same type of pattern that can give us brutal winter weather.

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Well, it seems like we get a hard freeze winter once a decade. 2010 was 8 years ago so we are about ready for another one! Hope not. But, i'm ready for winter to hit with some cooler temps. I've been doing a lot of out door yard work and been semi-saving the hard stuff for cooler temps. I guess we will get cooler temps sometime in the next coming months!