{"id":15589,"date":"2026-05-26T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15589"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:30:50","slug":"stalled-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/stalled-thunderstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"stalled thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260519_va_none.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15594\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260519_va_none.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"695\" \/>Its been a dry spring in Virginia. Limited April showers have resulted in challenging conditions for plants. I&#8217;ve been drip irrigating juveniles in CHO. In the Tidewater there is a group of a few hundred adolescent trees I look after.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/stalled-tstorm-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15591\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/stalled-tstorm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"760\" \/>Rain began falling at 1430 hours<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/stalled-tstorm-02-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15592\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/stalled-tstorm-02-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"760\" \/>Between 1430 and 1830 six inches of rain came down.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chair-three-trees-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15590\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chair-three-trees-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"695\" \/>It&#8217;s pretty flat in Slabtown.<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260525-military-woods-east-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15595\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260525-military-woods-east-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"695\" \/>takes awhile to soak in<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260525-sheet-flow-hseC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15596\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/260525-sheet-flow-hseC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"695\" \/>sheet flow in the yard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/stalled-tstorm-frog-02-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15593\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/stalled-tstorm-frog-02-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"695\" \/>all things wet and wonderful<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a dry spring in Virginia. Limited April showers have resulted in challenging conditions for plants. I&#8217;ve been drip irrigating juveniles in CHO. In the Tidewater there is a group of a few hundred adolescent trees I look after.Rain began falling at 1430 hours Between 1430 and 1830 six inches of rain came down. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/stalled-thunderstorm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;stalled thunderstorm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,129,17,16,21,83,60,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian","category-color","category-fauna","category-flora","category-slabtown","category-three","category-trees","category-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15597,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions\/15597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}