Tuesday 24 July 2012

After the rains...

After a delightful morning at the beach, including a picnic, we had a massive set of three thunderstorms rolling through our locale. Everyone came out after the big wash of rain: critters, sun and brightly lit clouds.



 As we drove home, the wind was blowing the meagre corn plants, as if their leaves were waving in the rain.

There is a total fire ban in southeastern Ontario.
You could hear the forest sigh as it began to soak up the rainfall.
For many, in places like Renfrew County, north west of us in Perth ,and Ottawa, it is too late. There are those that say that rather than Climate Change, it may well be a normal part of the weather cycle. That said, we can't back off the actions that waste fuel and put pollution into our atmosphere.



Farmers in one eastern Ontario county say they’re experiencing a drought crisis as western Quebec braces for more weeks of drought. Renfrew County’s economy.

Level 2 is declared if one-month precipitation falls to between 60 and 40 per cent of normal or when the three month or 18 month total precipitation is between 60 and 40 per cent of the average level. A Level 2 means that there are minor problems with the supply of water.

Renfrew is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. In 2006, the population was 97,545 and county covered 7403.46 km2, giving a population density of 34.2 /sqmi. There are 17 official municipalities....
Open Wikipedia article

5 comments:

EG CameraGirl said...

Glad to see you have gotten at least some rain...at last!

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Even the climate-change deniers would have to agree with what you say (wouldn't they?)....

Glad you got your picnic in before the deluges.

Linda said...

I am glad you got some rain - we are having quite a bit this last few days. It was badly needed!

Red said...

Great that you got some rain! We have too much. We've had two very heavy showers the last two days.

Kay said...

And now we're hearing that all the ice covering in Greenland has melted in a month.