Lots of rain today as the final storm of the 2009-2010 winter season moved across our state from southwest to northeast. We had several soaking bands come through, including some thunder and lightning to our east and north. Later this afternoon, I checked the radar and it looked like the final band was getting ready to come through. Here’s what it looked like pointing due west:

It ended up bringing a soaker that lasted around an hour, with some good thunder and lightning but the worst of seemed to pass to our west. There are still some scattered light showers to our southwest, but they look like they’re drying up, so that, as they say, appears to be that. For this El Nino winter, we got a lot of rain (and, in the north country, a lot of snow). We hear the reservoirs have gotten a good replenishing, so we’ve been truly blessed.

Given the extended forecast for our area, it seems pretty clear our winter is over, and spring will be in full sprung mode by the end of next weekend. Once you hit 80 around here, 90 is never far away, and from that, it’s an easy hop, skip, and a jump to the first 100+ day, usually in early May. Now we’ll have no rain at all for the next four months; by that time, everyone will be looking forward to the monsoons.

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Pool temp: 59 degrees