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 important point in that graphic is 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 …
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. …
Watching this video, what was striking to me was the way clouds and moisture avoided Texas, Oklahoma and the surrounding states. Having lived through a year in which the majority of the days were crowned with those unblemished blue skies that are normally so rare on the Texas coast, this visualization brought …
Heavy rains for drought-stricken Texas A slow-moving low pressure system brought the heaviest rains of the year to large portions of rain-starved Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas over the weekend. Radar-estimated rainfall amounts reached eight inches over portions of Texas between Dallas and Abilene. Houston got 20% of their rain for …
It looks as if all of the rain from Tropical Storm Lee has managed to miss my part (and most of the rest) of Texas. We were really hoping to have a couple of days of the wet, soggy stuff falling on our heads… It didn’t happen that way so …
After watching a far off lightning show on Wednesday evening yesterday morning brought a wondrous sight…A rather large thunderous rain storm blew through our immediate area. The winds blew, lightning blasted the ground over and over again setting car alarms off all over town and then it rained for a couple of hours …
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