Raindrop Roulette

The last couple weeks there has been a 40% chance of afternoon thundershowers nearly every day. For the longest time my rule of thumb has been, 40% chance of rain and higher, the top goes up while at work. After not having it rain during the day for the last couple of weeks with those kinds of numbers, I got tired of burning my hands on interior bits for the drive home, so on Thursday and today we left the top down and used the cockpit cover.

Seeing as I’m still a little gun-shy from the dousing received a month ago, I have kept the Weather Channel‘s local radar running in a browser in the background. I check it about every 15 minutes. Both afternoons there have been numerous thundershowers pop up around Aiken county, but thankfully none have blossomed right over ASCO. Today with just 15 minutes left in the workday a small spot of green appeared over where I think we are on the map, so I went to the nearest window to take a peek outside. Mmmm, looks sunny. Not wanting to take any chances that green would grow to yellow/orange/red, signifying massive water from the sky, I hustled Donna out the door as fast as possible. As we left, the parking lot was dry, but the cars near the front of the lot had water on the horizontal surfaces. Sure enough it had rained, not hard enough to breach the protection of the cockpit cover though.