Today’s image: Spa in Budapest, Hungary 🙂
We have had the expected dry, dry, dry, hot, hot, hot summer, and suddenly yesterday we were issued an amber weather warning for ‘heavy precipitations’.
The rain started in earnest early this morning, and it sounds & looks quite impressive. 50mm is forecast for the day.
For those who live in wetlands (such as england!) this may seem like a mere shower. But here, where it is SO non-rained-upon, if the clouds out-perform the risk level the results can be catastrophic.
People and places are still recovering from the floods of a couple of years ago when the post-summer pre-rain scenario was almost identical. The sudden rush of water flooded the ramblas – the riverbeds that everybody uses as access tracks and shortcuts – devastating everything around.
Roads were destroyed, houses inundated – people were counting the cars and fridges as they floated past!
Today we’ll be watching the skies, ready to move boxes from the basement to upstairs – and making sure the coffee is well out of any possible rise in water level.
Local forums are exchanging on-the-spot reports, and nothing serious has happened anywhere as yet, so for now it’s life as normal, tinged with the unique smell of dampened dust and plants washed by fresh rain. Nice!
Oh I wish I was there more than ever! We seem to get ‘drive-by’ storms here. It thunders and storms- and we may even get a tornado warning or two, but the rain just seems to pass through with a sprinkling before it’s completely gone. In the past we have had a good amount of rain, something seems to have changed, much to our disappointment! We love the rain, the sound, the smell and yes, the occasional craziness that it brings.
Hope you are safe and dry!