In previous posts I have described some spooky events occurring in the back yard of the house where I live. The post here tells a very interesting story of how purple flowers started to grow in my concrete back yard, seemingly on the very day that I predicted such purple flowers would grow, because of a dream I had about my deceased mother kneeling down in my back yard, as if she was planting something. The details of why I had made such a prediction are fascinating. In the post here I describe mysterious displacements of a trash can in my back yard. In the post here I describe very strange repetitive bird appearances in my back yard of a type that mathematically are extremely improbable.
Today I observed something else very strange in my back yard. At about 11:30 AM I noticed that the sky was pretty dark, as if it was going to rain. I looked in my back yard to see whether it was raining yet. I then saw an anomaly I have never seen before in my life. It looked as if it had started to rain, but only in one little rectangular area of my back yard.
The photo below shows what I saw. We see curving lines on the left side. There is nothing above the shown area that would cause such an effect; there's nothing but air. The water was shut off for the hose throughout this day, the valve for the hose being in its "off" position that prevents any water from getting to the hose.
Within a few minutes the rain started to fall all over, and the whole concrete back yard was wet. But why when I took this photo would there have been raindrops all concentrated in this one rectangle? I asked around in my household. No one else had been in the back yard this morning. No one had thrown water or used the hose.
Rain drops are supposed to fall randomly, not concentrated in only one little rectangle. The only light I can shed on this strange event is that it rather seems to be part of a pattern of strange hard-to-explain things occurring in my back yard since July.
About seven hours later, around 7:00 PM on August 22, the effect repeated. I noticed that a little rain had fallen. The rectangle shown above with raindrops seemed to get almost all of the rain falling in my back yard, with most of the rectangle being darkened by raindrops. This back yard has 12 equal-sized cement rectangles, 8 of which can be mostly or entirely pelted by falling raindrops. Below we see a photo I took about 7:00 PM:
Postscript: Below for comparison is the same part of my back yard as shown above, in a photo taken midday several days later.
On August 26, 2022 at about 1:30 PM there was another repetition of this "precipitation selectivity" effect, which I captured in the photo below. The photo was taken after the rain had fallen for a bit longer than shown in the first photo of this post. We can see that the raindrops have primarily fallen in the same cement rectangle getting most of the raindrops in the top photo. There's nothing above the shown area that can explain such an effect. The house has a second-floor balcony, but it extends no further than the black pillar shown below (which is one of three supporting pillars at the edge of the balcony). There is no natural reason why the rectangle to the left of the wettest rectangle shown below (and the rectangles in the lower left of the photo) should not be equally wet as the wettest rectangle shown below. The hose was turned off (a valve controlling it being in the "off" position).
I can only wonder: is this some permanent effect that will just keep happening, one I will be able to notice at the beginning of any rainfall? And in the winter, will snow perhaps pile up preferentially in this spooky rectangle, with the snow always piling up much higher in this rectangle?
The photo below (taken at 2:38 PM on August 26) shows my back yard viewed from its back gate. We see that there is nothing above the concrete back yard that could explain the "selectivity" of such rainfall as shown in the photos above. The rectangle getting the "raindrop majorities" is shown in the bottom left of the photo above (part of the rectangle is covered by the planters shown at the bottom left).
The photo below shows another recurrence of the "precipitation selectivity" effect at about 3:12 PM on August 26, about 30 minutes after the photo directly above was taken. New raindrops fell, raindrops not shown in the photo above. Once again the raindrops "selectively" concentrated in the same "preferred target" rectangle shown in the photos above. In the next minute or two after taking the photo below, I saw the whole backyard get drenched by the falling rain.
No one who has studied my
huge collection of photos of abundantly repeating patterns in falling water drops should be all that surprised by these results. What we see in the photos above is an effect of falling rain drops acting in a non-random way, as if being controlled by some purposeful agency. The 1496-page book
here (which you can read online for free) documents an equally astounding effect of falling water drops having non-random appearances, with a very high degree of pattern repetition, as if some mysterious signaling effect was occurring.
"Stay tuned." I will be attempting to record this phenomenon in a video I will post to YouTube, and by using measurement cups I will also be attempting to get measurements of rainfall in different spots of my backyard that one would expect to receive identical amounts of rainfall.
Post-postscript (September 2022): On September 5 I got another repetition of this " precipitation selectivity" effect. Around 8:00 PM I repeatedly observed the area shown in the first photo below, seeing the whole cement area as being entirely dry. Nothing had been done that afternoon or evening to produce water in the area. The first photo below was taken at 10:32 PM, after the first raindrops had fallen. Almost all of the raindrops seemed to have appeared on the same rectangle. Looking closely, you can see hundreds of raindrops in that rectangle; but the rectangle to the left of it has no raindrops (or at most 2 or 3).
The photo below taken 19 minutes later (at 10:51 PM) shows these raindrops as having dried up. This was how this area looked at 8:00 PM before it started to rain.
The effect occurred again on September 7, as shown in the photo below. The same "preferred rectangle" seemed to be getting almost all of the raindrops.
Trying to leave no stone unturned in search of a natural explanation for this phenomenon, I considered the possibility that maybe the "preferred target" rectangle had some superior ability to retain water drops. But tests failed to support this idea. I took a cup filled with water, and sprinkled water drops on the rectangles shown above, by dipping my fingers in the cup and then shaking them so that water drops would fall on the cement rectangles. There did not seem to be any tendency for one of the rectangles to retain manually sprinkled water drops for a longer time. Below shows a photo I took during such a test.
We see below another example of the effect occurring on September 11:
On Septermber 19 I did 10+ minutes of video tests that I filmed, tests consisting of me using my wet fingers to drip water drops on the cement rectangles of my back yard to test whether there was any difference in the tendency of such rectangles to retain water drops that I had manually dripped on them. The tests showed no difference between the rectangles in this regard.
Here (from a video I took) is another example of the effect occurring on September 19:
On October 2 the effect repeated as shown below. In the back left we see an Amaranth plant that has most improbably arisen in my concrete backyard. The Amaranth plant has since ancient times been a symbol for immortality.
On October 23 the effect appeared as below:
On November 11 the effect appeared as below. The bags only contained dry leaves. Soon after this photo was taken, most of the concrete backyard was wet.
On January 14, 2023 the effect appeared as shown below. At the time I took the photo I could see very light snow falling.
On March 24 the effect appeared as shown below:
On December 7, 2023 the effect appeared as below, during light snowfall:
