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    About the big T-storm last Monday (July 23rd)

    Yes, we've had an abnormally dry season in the Ottawa-Gatineau region and for a good part of the Eastern North American coast as well. The grass has become totally dry; the only thing that's still green are the dandelion leaves and some of the other bad weeds (that's what the geese have been feasting on recently). So, it was inevitable that at some point, we'd have a big T-storm. And we got it, with ping pong ball-sized hailstones! Although the huge hailstorms looked fascinating and the sky was pitch black at times (the street lamps even lit up at some point), there wasn't too much damage done and not too many human injuries neither from the T-storm, fortunately.

    My photos of the hailstones don't look very good, but here's a picture of a fearless seagull that's out immediately after the T-storm.

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    I also saw a squirrel come out from under a spruce tree as soon as the T-storm was over. It sniffed out the hailstones, apparently fascinated by them as well. One thing that we definitely have in common with animals is an acute sense of curiousity.

    Today, we had mainly sunny and dry +31 deg Celsius weather. I saw one lazy squirrel lying on one of our staircase's steps that reluctantly went to hide in the nearby spruce tree as I approached, and I saw quite a few small birds (black capped chickadees and house sparrows) panting with their little beaks open to evacuate the excess heat from their bodies (birds don't sweat like us).

    The lazy squirrel reminded me of this lazy groundhog dude I snapped a picture of a few days earlier in a park in Ottawa.

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    • 29 July 2012
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