Some of the horticulturists can correct me, but I think we are getting into the time of the year where it is appropriate to do a little pruning of shrubs and crepe myrtles.
In honor of that this morning, I am pruning my RSS feeds and planting a few new ones. Recently James passed along a wonderful list of RSS feeds that I found very useful, and I think you will too.
Ed Overton passed along a note that he had compiled a list of his favorite 49 weather blogson his blog.
A shameless plug, Ed did add AlabamaWx.com to his list. Thanks Ed! Some of the sites lean toward climate change, which always gets a buzzer in these parts, but overall it is a great list of weather blogs.
In reviewing this list, an interesting story from a weather blog out of the United Arab Emirates. It seems that Jeddah in Saudi Arabia picked up 111 mm (4.37 inches) of rain in 3 hours from a big thunderstorm. This is more than double their average annual rainfall of 50 mm (1.97 inches). The heavy rains caused tremendous flooding. See the whole story here.
