Subj : Re: "Why We Love Iowa"
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Sun Jun 16 2019 12:13:04

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 10-Jun-2019 08:53 <=-

 BM>>> Which it does!  And sort of speaking of wind and the like, this
 BM>>> morning's news said we're going to get some of the smoke from the
 BM>>> Canadian wildfires and the meteorologist said things were slightly
 BM>>> hazy because of them.  Before watching the news I thought I smelt a bit
 BM>>> of smoke -- could have been somebody's firepit.
 NB>>> Probably just a little early to be getting the Canadian woldfire
 NB>>> smoke.... :)
 BM>> For you, probably.  They've announced it several times here.  I
 BM>> haven't smelt anything but last year (two years ago?) occasinally a
 BM>> faint smokiness when outside.  At time the sky looks a gray-overcast
 BM>> but not sure if that's the effect of the smoke or just the way the
 BM>> clouds look.
 NB>> Hard to say....
 BM> Well, yes, did a bit of Googling and appears the smoke from the
 BM> Canadian wildfires is mostly gone from this part of the country --
 BM> Northeast still has some lingering.  So any grayness out there is water
 BM> vapor. 

Most likely, anyway... Far as I know, we didn't have any here... not
that I've heard of...

 BM> Last night was monitoring a storm system coming in: watched some
 BM> rather dark clouds coming in.  Then a very brief sound of heavier rain
 BM> on the air conditioner -- almost reminded me of someone spilling water
 BM> from a bucket.  Window on the far side of the did get rained upon --
 BM> must have been a bit of a breeze change so the rain hit my side.

An interesting storm... :)  Even if it was just a flash in the pan... :)

 BM> Storm was sort of a fizzle: just over a tenth of an inch of rain in
 BM> the rain guage.  Plants probably like the 'real' water better than
 BM> what we gave them from the tap earlier a few hours earlier!

Probably...  :)  Often it is absorbed easier and better into the soil...
and probably has a different set of "chemicals"....

ttyl      neb

.... "I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best."

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