Hopefully more rain is on the way … over the next couple of days…
Today’s forecast (Friday) … Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 2 p.m. High temp today near 88 and an 80% chance of precipitation … Tonight … Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 7 p.m., then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 p.m. … Low near 74 … chance of precipitation is 60%…
Saturday, showers and thunderstorms are likely, mostly after 2 p.m. Partly sunny with a high near 92 … Heat index values as high as 104 and a 70% chance of rain … more of the same Saturday night … low around 74 and 60% chance of rain.
Sunday … A chance of showers and thunderstorms after about 2 p.m. Mostly sunny and hot with a high near 98 and a 40% chance of precipitation.
Time to trim the weeds at our house…
Deaths are difficult to deal with … Former Bladenboro Mayor Livingston ‘Nut” Lewis died Thursday … Understand he had had surgery recently and never recovered … Prayers for his family and friends…
Vacation time … welcome all to the area…
MacKenzie Gore, Columbus County native and pitcher for the Washington Nationals, pitched Thursday … Good 3 innings before getting “roughed up” … Score was 7-0 Mets … Gore pitched 4.2 innings … gave up 4 runs, 3 hits … 3 base on balls and recorded 4 strikeouts…
On the subject of sports … Looking ahead to high school football … Practice begins July 31 … 1st scrimmage is August 10 … 1st game of the year set for August 23…
So … what are your plans for the weekend? Find a cool place and “hunker down.” Not time to “play man” as hot as it is … except golfers … Never too hot on the golf course…
Stock market got even with those “boasting” about a good day earlier…
“If I could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.” Evelyn Waugh
“If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue.” Katie Lee
“Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole world is about.” John Mayer
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