We drove about 10 km to a major shopping centre yesterday and hardly seen any damage in other suburbs so it was sorta a selective wind storm almost like a mini cyclone @Shirley Martin The areas we drove though for two days each way ….going …..to and coming back from QLD are expecting major flooding again from unseasonal rains / storms ( they’ve had three major floods this year ) allot of the areas being effected are usually praying for rain ….now they just want it to stop Here is a photo of a road in NSW I took when we traveled through the area in July now that have floods again when the last lot haven’t even dried up yet
Weather has been lovely here for a week. No rain. Good staining and harvesting weather and the leaves we are known for are just starting to turn colors. It will get a little cooler which will slow down the color making the season last a little longer. I love the sumac which are bright red just now, the sugar maples are red/orange/yellow and the hickory are yellow. People planted a lot of red acer maples over the years and they are lovely. Looks a lot like Wisconsin
Weather has been warmer than usual, especially the last two days with high temps in the upper 50s F. The bottom is supposed to fall out tonight. We'll see. If they are as accurate as usual in their forecasts, it will be 70 F. and sunny. We have had noticeable earthquakes the past couple days, with one each day but on different faults, one to our north and one to our east. I hope these are not foreshocks of a larger event as happened on November 30, 2018. We had had a foreshock for that one about this time of year. Each isolated earthquake has a 20% chance of being a foreshock of a larger one later. It always keeps us on our toes. The Anchorage power utility has now also put out an advisory related to upcoming possible power outages. I don't recall these advisories in the past, so I wonder.... It is lightly raining now, but it could turn to snow or a rain/snow mix later tonight.
@Don Alaska , I thought I read somewhere sometime that the small earthquakes were a good thing because they relieve pressure on the fault lines. Is that not true? Still great fall weather here.
It can be, @Shirley Martin. Some types of small earthquakes relieve pressure on a fault, but others predict bigger ones. It all depends on the type of quake, depth and type of fault.
The cold that was supposed to arrive earlier this weekend is now predicted for tonight. Temps for the nearest town is predicted to be 29 F. but we are generally about 10 degrees colder so we expect 19 F. If it had cooled before all this rain, we could have several feet of snow. I don't have the chains on the tractor yet, so we'll see what happens in the next week.
Down to 24 F. this morning. It is predicted to cool through the week. I guess the season finally has changed to pre-winter. No snow at this level yet, though.