Photography Now & Then #77
Rain possibilities had been predicted, but we weren’t sure we were going to get any. Even with more than our share of rain so far this year, there is enough dead and dry grass around that a few windy days without rain can increase the risk of grass fires. Just a few days ago, there was a grass fire just a little over 1/2 mile almost due south of us. As vegetation greens up with the progressing spring weather, fire risk will drop significantly.
Now: Broken clouds and sunshine after a thunderstorm at supper time, March 18, 2018 (Apple iPhone 6s )
As we were getting ready to sit down for supper, a localized thunderstorm blew through. It rained hard for about ten minutes or so and then let up.
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As the year progresses, winter weather is less and less likely. While the winter was cold, some of it very cold, especially for Arkansas, we have escaped wintry precipitation except for one snowfall that barely covered the ground. Still, we’re not totally out of the woods yet.
Then: Snow over Illinois Bayou arm of Lake Dardanelle, west-central Arkansas, February 4, 2011 (Pentax K-r )
Snow has fallen as late as early May in Arkansas. In 2013, the state had its first ever occurrence of May snow when, on May 3rd, the combination of an intrusion of unseasonably cold air and a slow-moving storm system led to a historical snow across northern Arkansas, with 5 inches at Decatur and 1.5 inches in Fayetteville. Prior to that, the latest occurrence of measurable snow was in northeast Arkansas, near the Missouri line, at Corning with 0.2 inch on April 24, 1910.
Photography Now & Then Notes:
- Series Photos
- The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post. In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
- The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
- Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
- The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.
