Sounds like fun, fantasia! The Minnesota version has ended for the season, but we had ideal weather for our attendance there on opening day.

Today was a pleasant late-summer day, with temps around 80F, clear skies, and low humidity. It was a short-lived break from recent rainy hot patterns, and even now thunderstorms are just off to our west. We've had some spectacular thunderstorms of late with big rainfall totals, including one this past weekend that left parts of the campground I was in very wet.

Boy did we have some INSANE weather at the end of last week. I believe it was Thursday night into Friday morning that we got over 6" at my house. 6"!!!! That would be a new personal record for me as we rarely get rain like that around here and when we do, I'm not usually under it. Just to the south of where I live, they were getting up to 9". The following night we had an additional 2" fall but I was out of town at the time so I missed out on all of the flooding... lucky me.

Saturday and Sunday were near perfect weather. Saturday morning was borderline cool for me, but lots of warm sun and I believe the high that day was 78F. It's warmed up a touch since then but starting tonight we're supposed to get another round of rain over the next few days. Things definitely have not dried out here so if we get a lot of rain again, we could be in big trouble. I don't think they're predicting large amounts though so we'll see what happens.

So much rain, fantasia! The same sort of pattern is going on here. The 3 months of meteorological summer (June-August) were among the wettest on record here.

More torrential rain fell yesterday afternoon, and my mother and I were caught in the downburst. Soaked through in just seconds.

But winter is never far off - the other morning numerous stations in north central Minnesota reported lows below freezing. It only got down to 47F/8C here in the southern part of the state, but fall is imminent. (Now if those mosquitoes would just get the hint!)

So much rain, fantasia! The same sort of pattern is going on here. The 3 months of meteorological summer (June-August) were among the wettest on record here.

It was the same here, for the same period of time. And it has been even wetter this September. The floods from South Australia across to New South Wales, and Queensland to Victoria have destroyed this summer's crops already, though at least the soil is thoroughly rehydrated.

One of our weather people on the News said the rain was due to the Indian Ocean Dipole On Internet, I saw this definition of this phenomenon, which is currently spreading a warmer than usual current on the Western Australian Coastline. "The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), also known as the Indian Niño, is an irregular oscillation of sea-surface temperatures in which the western Indian Ocean becomes alternately warmer and then colder than the eastern part of the ocean."

Welcome to fall! (or spring, if you live Down Under).

Our weather still thinks it's summer, though, with unseasonably warm and wet conditions. Huge summer-like thunderstorms blew through overnight, knocking out internet and phone services for much of town. 7-13 inches (175-330mm) of rain fell in just a few hours, so some streets are flooded or washed out and some schools started late or remained closed. Winds of up to 65mph (100 km/hr) knocked over trees weakened by previous rain and saturated soil.

How come I never tire of reading posts about weather?

Probably the autumn, when the temperature cools down and isn't so excessive.

Hearty ditto here!

Happy Autumn; Happy Spring! I've been waiting for autumn since early summer, lol.

Wow, 'gazer, that's quite the flooding. Stay safe! And at all the abundant rain in wagga's and fantasia's areas!

The 3 months of meteorological summer (June-August) were among the wettest on record here.

As for us, we have had one of the driest summers in years. Thankfully this has reversed through September, and everything is nice 'n green again.

'Though as we head into autumn now, some of the trees are beginning to barely blush colour—so pretty.

Today could well be our last hot and humid day: tonight a cold front rolls in, bringing much cooler temperatures, with lows in the single digits (Celsius). Perfect walking weather!

We need rain again, and our next significant chance is mid next-week. Hoping it comes!

I'd happily send you some of this moisture, jo, if I could.

The rain has stopped for the moment - though more is predicted tonight - but the water keeps rising as it flows downstream. This is a rather small town but many of the main roads are flooded, so there's a lot of traffic on the remaining streets. Today I saw a sign on the local Godfather's Pizza advertising "Now Serving Lunch Buffet" - but the restaurant is almost under water.

A local newspaper has posted some aerial shots of the flooding (the pizza place is the building near the center of the first picture, "Main Street looking west.")

The water has receded somewhat, though parts of downtown are still under water. Now begins the task of cleanup for those affected.

Today was a glorious autumn day, with high around 70F/21C, crystal clear blue skies, and more than a hint of color in some trees. Just perfect for a campfire cookout at a nearby state park (parts of which are closed due to the flooding, but the picnic ground was open). Such a nice day...except with the rain and recent heat, the mosquitoes are still plenty active.

Wow, stargazer! That looks like a really bad flood. We've had several off and on since winter. And now Forbes, on the Lachlan River, has been flooded, with millions of dollars damage to crops that had been growing nicely until last week. Around Forbes is a river system, where the Lachlan River, which in drought time can be no more than a series of puddles, feeds into the better watered Murrumbidgee, which then flows into the Murray, on the Victorian/New South Wales border. So even when the rain stops the floods still may not have peaked.

I'm just back from a funeral in Canberra where it has been bitingly cold weather, though it didn't snow there as per the linked article. It has been raining of course, and part of the journey home the winds were so strong, it was hard to drive our car forward, and so we were forced to drive more slowly.

where was the flooding stargazer? Thankfully we did not suffer the same here, though a town not far off had some localized flooding a few weeks ago.
As things are drying out I can get about easier looking for agates. There is new road constuction nearby with fresh turned earth as they are laying new storm drains. Since the rain has held off the past few days I have been able to walk about without sinking into the mud so badly.
Funny you should mention fires. The Mrs. and I were just out enjoying a good fire after the mosquitos had tired of looking for us. We had been out earlier with chores, and they were very active.
I would have thought things would be warming up for you wagga. The temps are still relatively comfortable here, but are getting noticably cooler in the evenings.

After several days of perfectly gorgeous weather, we may be looking at some excitement on Tuesday. I'm even hearing talk of tornadoes. I can't recall having a tornado in October, ever.

where was the flooding stargazer?

The flooding was in far southern Minnesota, just north of the Iowa line, extending into the far southeast part of the state. Areas downstream, in northeast Iowa, suffered serious flooding as well.

Currently we have rainy days (like today) which delay the retreat of the floodwaters, alternating with absolutely glorious autumn days (like yesterday), when it's so enjoyable to get out and enjoy the fall colors (mosquitoes notwithstanding).

It's been cloudy for so many days now that I was dreaming about blue skies last night. It looks like we're not going to get much let-up from that either, with Hurricane Matthew in the neighborhood. I doubt we'll get more than a lot of rain and some wind from that in my area, but I hope it stays well off the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas. That doughnut-shaped hurricane trajectory is the weirdest thing I've ever seen!

How are you doing with the hurricane Rose? I assume it's long past you by now.

It's quite rumbly here this morning. I think we got some rain too but I'm not sure.

I must say though, even though I love the cooler weather of Fall, I hate the shorter days. I feel sooo tired lately, can't get out of bed or anything. For the first time in my life, I'm almost looking forward to the time change coming soon.

We got through the storm all right! There was a lot of heavy rain and strong wind and there are downed trees here and there and flooding in low-lying areas in my county, but it's nothing compared to what folks in the eastern part of the state are dealing with. There's been talk of some dams possibly failing. Praying that the waters recede soon!

I've had a struggle with getting out of bed lately as well, fantasia. I figured that the fatigue was just because of the persistent cloud cover that's hung about for the past couple of weeks. (That's one good side effect of Matthew blowing through and carrying the clouds back out to sea with him... we finally have some blue skies again. )