After the kids got on the bus this morning, it decided to really start raining... As you can see from the standing water, it has been raining pretty hard for a good while now. Looking out at the rain gauge I can't even tell how many inches we've already had...
It's really an uncommon sight here in my area to see ice sparkling on tree limbs in the sun. It's 10:45 and the sun is causing a virtual heat wave outdoors... The temperature has risen to a wonderful 25°.
Monday, January 8th, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday January 24th It's cool, breezy, and wet already this morning. Though the temperature is almost 60°, there is a rather strong breeze blowing a fine misty rain... And the prognosticators are promising this is just the start of a blustery weather day... Some cold fronts come into Houston like…
Saturday January 21st It's mid-afternoon, but, it's looked like this all day long. It's 53° right now... The same as it was at 7:00 a.m. this morning. There's been light rain falling off and on all day long. So far 3/4 of an inch has fallen. The look and the…
Thanksgiving Thursday After the summer we've had, I feel I should be giving thanks for the rain we are having... But as much as I love slow and steady, 2 inches in 2 hours is a bit much! Of course, when you are expecting 20 people for dinner, and all…
Rain Even a slow and steady rain can add up when it comes down all day....
It's Friday The above radar image is what was happening as the grandkids got on the bus for their second day of school. Between then and now we've had 1.25" of rain. Yesterday afternoon we had 1.6" and lost power for a couple of hours as the storms moved thru,…
Friday Finally... After weeks and weeks... We get more than a trace amount of rain. So far, coming up on noon, we're measuring just below 3/10 of an inch. And it's been slow, it's been steady, it's been just what we need... A soaking rain. I can only hope that…
It's Friday https://youtu.be/rz2fil577mE It's been another day of listening to thunder... Watching lightning... And only seeing about 5 minutes of rain. The video above shows a loop from this morning to this afternoon... One of the magnolias out in the front bed has lost 95% of its leaves. My small…
It's Saturday After weeks of flirting and hooded eyes, Mother Nature finally graced us with a mere pittance of moisture in the form of a five minute shower. It's raining again now. But, as it has been for what seems like forever, the majority of the thunderstorms are brushing past…
It's Saturday Not much to say today, other than... It's hot.
It's not much... But it is standing in the driveway... And you can hear it dripping... Dripping... Not a gully washer. Not cats and dogs. But it is rain.
It's Thursday I was dragged reluctantly from my slumber by the distant rumblings of thunder at 5am this morning. As I lay there listening... contemplating the rarity of this sound lately... thinking I really should watch this rare event... moisture falling from the sky... RAIN. So I stumbled out of…
Once again, thunder is all we got...
It's Sunday Just saying...
It's Saturday Nothing more needs to be said...
Monday https://youtu.be/5x1oeaCA6V4 Our preview of fall is winding down. The low this morning is back above 70... And there it will stay all week. The prognosticators are foretelling of scattered showers all week to boot. Today’s kids will live through three times as many climate disasters as their grandparents, study…
Tuesday, After Hurricane Nicholas https://youtu.be/RoF5aQIG_ck Hurricane Nicholas made landfall at 12:30 am Tuesday on the eastern part of Matagorda Peninsula, about 10 miles west of the small city of Sargent. It had maximum winds of 75 mph at landfall. The storm is moving about 10 mph to the north-northeast, and…
Monday https://youtu.be/c4ztBxxPtAA It's a wet, almost stormy morning to start this week. Way down south in the Gulf is tropical storm Nicholas. The prognosticators are saying TS Nick will come ashore sometime today south of us on the coast. So, well we won't be looking for heavy winds, the prognosticators…
Sunday Sunset https://youtu.be/E5iOoXnsB-o Tropical Storm Nicholas has layered in clouds that came to life after the sun set...
Saturday Hurricane Ida I wasn't going to post anything this morning because I slept in... Then I saw this animation of Ida on Windy.com. I started playing with the video recorder and then tried outputting it as a gif... So here we are.
Tuesday Well, the temperature at 74° is quite pleasant, the humidity at 97% is visible in the air as a haze. I'm letting the grandkids get one last day of summer sleep before I start rousting them out of bed early, they're really going to be sad when they start…
Sunday AIR QUALITY ALERTISSUED: 1:44 PM JUL. 25, 2021 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...Ozone Action Day... The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Houston, Galveston, and Brazoria areas for Monday, July 26, 2021. Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing high…
Lightning, lightning, lightning everywhere.
It's still 23° outside. The low tonight is supposed to be 12°. Our electricity has been out all day. We don't expect it to be back on anytime soon. Guess I'll have to throw another log on the fire and hope it keeps us above freezing. Stay warm everyone.
On a day when you would think it couldn't get any worse... We have this barreling down upon us. Can we just name it Trump and impeach it?
Another blustery near miss morning. Hurricane Delta is about 180 miles south-southeast of Galveston. This morning's winds are blowing almost east to west at the moment. A few weeks ago the morning temperature would have made me smile, but after a couple of weeks of fall-like temperatures I'm just not…
It's officially cooler after lunch than it was at the start of the day...
One of the best investments I made in designing this house was the ceiling fans on the back porch. While, one of the missed opportunities was not adding them to the front porch. That 20/20 hindsight will bite you in the buttocks every time. The breeze is out of the…
A cool start to the last month of the decade. Especially welcome after a warmer than normal Thanksgiving week. My red tree isn't very red anymore. And unlike most years it's not very green either...
Not musing this morning, had a doctors appointment. Back at the house and it's just been raining all day. Here's what I'm seeing on Wunderground... Hello Imelda.
Day Three Of Harvey Morning Coffee Muses
Mid-Day Hurricane Harvey, Tropical Storm Coffee Muses
I was checking the forecast for the next ten days and this is what I found on the Weather Underground. I think they are foretelling a lot of rain in my future. The wind directions look interesting also... Must be some of the weather my brother-in-law, Nigel, keeps talking about…
Rainy Sunday Morning Coffee Muses
Just Another Overcast Winter Morning Coffee Muses, But Cool
An almost perfect Tuesday morning Coffee Muses, just warm
A Bright and Sunny Winter's Sunday Coffee Muses
Cool and Wet Morning Coffee Muses.
Another Muggy Morning Coffee Muses
Warm and muggy Coffee Muses.
Warm and Sunny Coffee Muses.
The temperature on the back porch is pushing 70 degrees this morning. There's a wind advisory until early afternoon. Wind out of the south will be blowing a weather system north into the plains. I plan to take advantage of this warm weather to run the Deere around the yard…
This morning we are back in that gloomy weather groove to start the week. Though, I must admit, the mid 50's feel much more comfortable than the mid 20's of a day ago. Who am I kidding, it feels better than the 40 degrees it was at sundown last evening.…
Frosty cold this morning. Two nights in a row the temperature has fallen into the mid-twenties. The temperature on the other porch is still 29 degrees. It's a funny thing though, the thermometer on the post to my left is already reading 40 degrees. Microclimates... aren't they fun? It's what…
It's so cold this morning it froze the internet. You have no idea what it's like to have a couple of grandkids who are used to on demand television sitting around with no internet connection... No Netflix... No Hulu... No PBS Kids. And, since we replaced the living room television,…
When it's colder outside than it is in your refrigerator... All day long.
Brrrrr... Were the prognosticators ever wrong, it's already in the upper 30's out here. And, did I mention the wind? This weekend is gonna be screaming fireplace, and my woodpile is a little low. So, it looks like winter and it even feels like winter. So why are they still…
The Devil's in the forecast...
Another overcast day to start the new year. It's so quiet today that traffic sounds from far away are prominent. Even the birds are subdued. Well they were, right up until I wrote about it. The prognosticators are calling for a high today of about 66. Then the temperature will…
Do you see what's wrong in the screen capture above? Today's projected high of 56° is forecast to be "much warmer" than yesterday's 81°. I do not know what has happened at the Weather Underground since they were bought by the Weather Channel, but it hasn't been pretty. Could ownership…
2016 comes to an end just as dreary looking as much of the year has felt. For the record, it's already in the mid 60's this morning and heading north of 70 by afternoon. Ditto for the first day of 2017 tomorrow. There's a lite, misty rain falling... so lite,…
At least for Texas... the morning started off clear and only in the mid seventies. As I sit hear on my second cup, it is still there... Though rising. And, the answer to yesterday's question... not one drop of rain fell on my house. All day long thunder rolled around,…
For the past week the forecast has been for thunderstorms and each day we have seen them pop up and move past to one side or the other. Almost every day the sound of distant thunder has accompanied my morning coffee. Today I can even smell the rain. But, the…
... and I like it.
It must have made a sound... Right?
For the second time in as many days dangerous scorching heat is forecast Tuesday in the Houston region. Source: Another high Heat Advisory for Houston region When you walk out in the morning and the temperature is already pushing into the mid 80's and the humidity is above 60% on…
I walked out onto the back porch this morning and immediately noticed a difference. For one thing, my glasses did not fog up. For another, it actually felt... dare I say it, cool
I walked out this morning for my morning coffee and the day slapped me in the face. Yesterday's cool had been replaced by our normal heat and humidity. But, sitting here reading my email and news, listening to the daily political news, I began to here another sound... in the…
On another overcast morning, breezes blowing cool, I should be moving, but after the heat of last week I can't make myself give up on the pleasure of my morning coffee muse here on the back porch. Cup number two is down to dregs. Excuse me while I get a…
You have to love the Weather Underground... when they say it will start raining by 2:00, you can almost set your watch by it. So here I sit, on the back porch, the Deere parked, grass all mowed, listening to distant thunder. The breeze is so nice, cool with the…
Do you see the joke? How about now? At 10:30 in the morning it already feels like 99º and the forecast is for today to be much cooler than yesterday. Southeast Texas weather in June just sucks all the life out of you...
After late afternoon thunderstorms lowered the temperature last evening, the morning coffee on the back porch was almost cool. At least while the ceiling fans are going. The two fans above my head have to be one of the best investments I made when we built this house. They are…
After a scorching day of sun, a line of heavy thunderstorms dropped the temperature like a rock. For a change we are enjoying our front porch. We came out front because the storms were blowing in from this side of the house. And the rain keeps falling...
https://youtu.be/nMjBCIviFGQ Summer heat has set in this week.Temperatures are pushing the century mark and heat indexes are in spitting distance of 110.
Stepped out on the back porch this morning for that essential first cup and the heat and humidity hit me full in my face... It's so sad that it's such a beautiful day. Blue skies with a scattering of white fluffy clouds. I hear my first hum of cicadas as…
It's still cool on the back porch, even as the sun peaks through the mostly clouded sky. There is a front sitting right on top of my house. Sadly "cool" fronts at this time of year aren't really very cool. Once we get past all of the rain we will…
Another day of rain on the back porch...
At least it's cool on the back porch this morning. Still raining... but cool. Yesterday it was raining and hot. The yard is starting to look like a swamp in a lot of places. If you look closely, you can see where I stopped mowing on Wednesday when I was…
This time of year I find myself following the weather trends at the homes of my friends as much more than our own. As you can tell from the lack of activity here, I tend to go into hibernation come summer, and wait for the cooler seasons to show here.…
...most years I struggle with the month of August and this particular one is no different.Source: Cruel August | Redtree Times I find myself in agreement with GC Meyers on the subject of August... But being in Texas and not New York, I find myself adding in July and September.…
This has been a poor excuse of a month. A couple of weeks ago I was greeted with an email telling me this website and all of the others I host here had been disabled... Shut down for a breach in my terms of service. Seems, at least according to my hosting folks, I had been hacked and malicious code or viruses had been inserted into my sites. They scanned everything and gave me a four page list of files that were bad. All of this during a period of time when my better half was recuperating from surgery and expected some entertaining.
That is all...
But given the information we did have—the city was in the path of a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of about 45 mph—did it make sense that all of the drinking water should be gone? Shouldn’t we have been armed with the knowledge that a storm like Bill likely wouldn’t incapacitate the municipal water…
Wednesday morning coffee... it looks like that two day rain event they have been threatening us with since Sunday night finally arrived just after I stepped out on the porch this morning. Starting the day at almost 80˚ with 100% humidity... lovely. After an all day TV weather event yesterday,…
When we went to bed last night the prognosticators were telling us the then still to be named Bill would be ashore when we awoke... Maybe. All morning the talking heads on the TV have been telling us Bill would be ashore in the next 45 minutes or so... For the last…
I keep coming back to the fact that this has been one of the gloomiest winters I can remember. We seem to have been stuck in the overcast since Thanksgiving. Just a day (or at most two) of sunshine each week or so. The only brightness in my days are…
Temperature 97.9 °F Feels Like 116 °F That's what it says on the Weather Underground page for my place right now. I spent 2+ hours this morning riding the John Deer around the yard today and it was hot. But right now... Three hours later... It's just ridiculous. Now, granted, feels like 116° beats…
Heat...Heat...Heat...That's what summer in Texas is all about. It's 10am and this was just on the Weather Underground... the small print under the temperature...The heat index. It already feels like 108°. This time last week I was beginning to feel like I had been transported to the Emerald Isle... Outside my…
I wandered over to the Wunderground.com to check the extended forecast for this first week in May and here is what I saw: Thursday Mostly cloudy in the morning, then partly cloudy. High of 84F with a heat index of 91F. Winds from the SE at 5 to 10 mph.…
It's beautiful outside. It has been beautiful for a week or more. My thoughts keep turning to digging in the dirt... Planting things that are beautiful, things that taste good, things that attract birds and butterflies. This is my way of saying I'll be missing more than I'm here on the web for…
For the last week it has seemed more like spring than the middle of January. But, the screen capture above says it all...70° at 9am on January 22 just isn't right. If this holds for another week, there will be no doubt that this January will be one for the record…
My wife and I were having a conversation about the weather/climate of our youth. What brought the conversation up was the fact that I was mowing grass in our yard on January 11 as the temperature approach 70°. I commented on the fact that when I was a teenager in…
Federal scientists confirmed Friday that Texas had its driest year on record in 2011. The statewide average rainfall for the year totaled just 14.88 inches, according to the National Climatic Data Center, beating the previous low of 14.99 inches set in 1917. During the last century, Texas averaged 27.92 inches of rain…
Today the red oak in the backyard is probably at peak color. Never in the years since I planted it has it been quite this vividly fall like. The funny thing about today is that the temperature is already at 76° and rising. It's breezy and partly cloudy. Yesterday it…
I figured when I saw blooms back at the end of September there was a chance I would see apples yet this year. All it took was for the heat to break and the rains to start falling and here you see what I discovered today...Baby apples. Not a lot.…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/fX7Q-0QuID4 It also reinforced the fact that most of this years storms were pushed off out into the Atlantic. Watching Irene work her way up the east coast all the way to Canada had me remembering the pictures of the flooding in New England. I suppose only time will tell if this…