Pines on our upper pasture near the pond.Hey, it's great to be back online again. Our ISP decided to take the day off. I don't know what the problem was. Monday evening, our dial up would connect, but no data was transferring between our computer and their server. During most of the day Tuesday, we couldn't connect at all. I called, just to make absolutely certain the problem was theirs and not mine, but I kept getting a busy signal. This has happened before. I suspect they take their phone off the hook during major outages.
Our balmy weather is gone and it's back to being winter again, although our temperatures are forecast to just barely dip below freezing early Wednesday morning. Some areas of the Ozarks paid a price for those unseasonable warm temperatures. When the approaching cold front hit all the warm, moist air hanging over our region, a line of severe thunderstorm developed. Several tornadoes were reported in southern Missouri.
How we missed getting any of the severe weather, I'll never know. Before we lost Internet service, the NOAA map showed a line of severe thunderstorm stretching from western Arkansas up into Missouri, and it was heading our way. Later, I heard that eastern Arkansas got some bad storms too. However, we got virtually nothing -- less than a tenth of an inch of rain. I reckon that line of storms slipped to our north and then reformed to hit eastern Arkansas.
Our high temperature on Tuesday was almost seventy degrees, but it occurred early in the morning. Our temperature fell all day.
North side of upper pasture.
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