Re: HYB: more rebloom

We apparently were on the road at the same time, Steve. I was driving from Mount Vernon to Fair Oaks via the Fairfax County Parkway (a little more than 30 miles) to spend the evening with my son and his family because my power was out. Half of the signals were out. The rain was hammering so hard when I reached the Fair Oaks area that I missed the turn-off and had to back-track for several miles. On arriving at my son's house, I had to pull into the garage because the water coursing down his driveway was over my shoes. The extra work (just in the garden) caused by the wet weather has me far behind schedule in re-setting and planting-out. But, as I've mentioned elsewhere, it also is bringing some delightful surprises. -- Griff
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Szabo" <steve@familyszabo.com> 
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: RE: [iris] HYB: more rebloom



Griff,

Good thing you posted back. I wasn't looking forward to going through my
deleted items to find your post <g>. On the TV weather last night
(Channel 4 in DC), the weather guy said we were 8.5" ABOVE normal for
the year so far. I don't know where you got your numbers from, but, you
may have misread them.

If that storm is the one I'm thinking of, were we got the rain in a
couple of hours, man, it took me forever to get home. No matter which
way I turned, I ran into road closings because the cricks were
overflowing their banks, and flossing the roads, plus a lot of traffic
lights were knocked out as well, and not enough cops to direct at all
the intersections that really needed them. I ended up taking the, what I
am now calling it, Great Circle Route from Tysons Corner to Sterling,
going through Vienna and around to Reston and finally through Herndon to
Sterling.

\\Steve//


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of J.
Griffin Crump
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:03 AM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: Re: [iris] HYB: more rebloom

Steve  --  Thanks for the information and the resource.  I've stored it
in
my folders.  Twenty inches, year-to-date, sounds a lot more credible
than
the other figure.  We received 3 inches in just one storm a few weeks
go.  --  Grif


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Szabo" <steve@familyszabo.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:30 PM
Subject: RE: [iris] HYB: more rebloom



Griff,

For Northern VA, the yearly average (1931-2000) is 41.16" with a
standard deviation of 6.11. It is also broken down by month, which,
roughly figuring, is 20" year to date.

For anyone who is interested, this covers the whole country, the PDF I
am reading is found at
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/climatenormals/clim85/CLIM85_PRCP02.pdf

If you step back though the URL by directory, you'll eventually find a
whole host of historical information available for chatting about the
weather.

\\Steve//


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