Rain again, again.
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 30,028
Likes: 5,431
From: Bondville
I got in the hoytmobile put the top down immediatly pulled her out of the garage then the drops started falling. Drove her for about 40 minutes with the top up in the rain behind a truck going 27 miles an hour in a 50 for 10 miles ( needless to say I was getting fumed!) finally turned onto another road with no traffic ahead got to vtec with the top up for the first time and it sounds awesome!!! Then I put the top down drove top down for about an hour and a half stopped at a store to pick up some clothes left the top down it started spitting again. I put the top up wiped up the water spots and drove home. All in all I figure I made out o.k. today.
Thread Starter
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 33,155
Likes: 1,638
From: Randolph, NJ
Sometimes it just goes that way. In NJ we got soaked. In VT and MA you guys got sprinkles. Oh well.
It really rained hard here. Adam and I were in the 4Runner with the windshield wipers on fast and we couldn't see much past the front of it. We got a lot of rain. Problem is the rest of the week promises to be the same.
It really rained hard here. Adam and I were in the 4Runner with the windshield wipers on fast and we couldn't see much past the front of it. We got a lot of rain. Problem is the rest of the week promises to be the same.
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 8,674
Likes: 10
From: Myrtle Beach, SC
Live from your roving beat reporter...or is that beach reporter? 9:27AM, sunny and already 78.8. Woohoo!!
Ok, I promised to explain this weird weather phenomenon they got going on here. The ocean temp is about 80 degrees. Cooler than the air temp over the land. Hot air rises. As the hot air rises, there is a "gap" in the air that must be filled in. The relatively cooler air from the ocean rushes in to fill the gap. This is why there is always a breeze at the beach. However, as you know, when cool air and hot air collide, they are not friendly with each other. Kinda like the Hatfields and McCoys. This results in loud shouting matches we call thunder and lightening. Every once in a while they pee on each other. We call this rain. The weird thing is, this collision usually occurs 20-30 miles inland. So....when I'm sitting on the beach looking east over the ocean, it's sunny and blue. If I turn around and look west, you can see puffy clouds which get progressively darker as the day goes on. You can hear the rumbling and see the lightening. Then you turn back around, open another Mich Light, and enjoy the sun.
Ok, I promised to explain this weird weather phenomenon they got going on here. The ocean temp is about 80 degrees. Cooler than the air temp over the land. Hot air rises. As the hot air rises, there is a "gap" in the air that must be filled in. The relatively cooler air from the ocean rushes in to fill the gap. This is why there is always a breeze at the beach. However, as you know, when cool air and hot air collide, they are not friendly with each other. Kinda like the Hatfields and McCoys. This results in loud shouting matches we call thunder and lightening. Every once in a while they pee on each other. We call this rain. The weird thing is, this collision usually occurs 20-30 miles inland. So....when I'm sitting on the beach looking east over the ocean, it's sunny and blue. If I turn around and look west, you can see puffy clouds which get progressively darker as the day goes on. You can hear the rumbling and see the lightening. Then you turn back around, open another Mich Light, and enjoy the sun.
