Some weather patterns are just irritating.  Our current one which gives us mostly clouds and offshore winds without any rain is one that I would not chose.

I am a morning person, and I thrive on blue skies and sunshine.  I can store up enough sunshine to get me through two or three days of clouds, but if it goes beyond that my glass will start looking half empty instead of half full.

This morning you had to look very hard for a touch of blue skies.  My walk out on the dock brought no sign of the sun shining through the clouds.  The waters are still and black this morning.

When you get nearly a perfect reflection, the morning breezes have not started.  It was actually very quiet on the gut behind the house this morning.  There was only one swirl of bait fish visible along with a circle from a jumping mullet.
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It is hard to believe that we got 8.3 inches of rain yesterday from 5 AM until midnight.

Our ditches were running full, but the culverts seemed to handle all the water.

With that much rain coming out of the sky, I doubt that we will have to worry about watering the yard again this year.

The centipede grass will start to slow down with fall anyway

It was a relief to see some blue skies this morning even if they only hung around for a few minutes.

It appears the storm has headed slowly north so we can focus on drying out and getting on with the rest of our beach season.

So how much rain did you have at your place?

I have not posted since Tuesday afternoon so it is a fair assumption that we have been cloudy in ensuing few days.

Dull clouds are hard to draw inspiration from on a regular basis.  Real estate business has also been busy with a couple of looming closings and some new buyers on the horizon.

This morning it was refreshing to see some blue sky working its way through the clouds.

The forecast for the weekend is spectacular though the marine forecast looks a little challenging with some pretty good winds.

We hope to get out in the boat this morning and maybe this afternoon.

Hopefully I will get some nice blue sky water pictures.

When I got up this morning a little before 7AM,  the skies were still blue, but you could see clouds moving into the area.  By 9AM we were having some rain which continued in spurts all morning.

It certainly was not a bad day.  The temperatures never got out of the seventies which is a little unusual around here in August.

We are at the end of August so it is something of the changing of the seasons even if the weather clock is still pointing to summer.  All the children have gone back to school.  The beaches, restaurants, and highways are getting back to our normal state which is not very crowded.

This whole week is supposed to be a little cooler than normal, but after all the heat we have seen in the last few weeks, we can take a few days of where the humidity and temperature do not combine to cook us.

I would not mind mowing my yard and being able to find a dry spot or two on my clothes. Going fishing without cooking would also be nice.

Most of the clouds that came in this morning lasted all day.  In fact it seemed to get dark a little early today, but I sure it was just the cloudy weather.
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Hurricane Bill has been in the news a lot.  We watched some swells building earlier in the week.  Last night we went over to the beach for a walk.

We wanted to see if the high water and potentially heavy surf from Bill had made any changes to the beach.

Of course the beach changes even with regular surf so I guess you could say that we were just checking on the state of the beach.

There were very few people at the Eastern Regional Access as we continued up the beach.  My favorite beach is the nearly invisible Third Street Beach. 
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When I got up this morning, I was pleased to see the house windows not as fogged as they were the last couple of mornings.  A quick temperature check showed that at a few minutes before 7 AM we were a couple of degrees under 80F.  read more »

I have been complaining about the weatherman crying wolf.  I guess I will be quiet now that we have endured a deluge that overwhelmed our culverts.

For thirty to forty five minutes this afternoon we saw rain coming down as hard as I have seen it in a long time.

In that time span our gauge at Bluewater Cove recorded 1.75 inches of rain.  That comes on top of the 1 inch of rain that we got yesterday afternoon.  read more »