After watching rain showers bypass us on Tuesday, we managed to be in the way of a passing cloud yesterday. With an hour of steady rain, the ground soaked up every drop as fast as it fell. Sherry and I sat on the front porch and watched the amazing sight…Water…Falling from the sky…Then I went [...]

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These clouds are moving south just west of us this evening. We have already had an hour or more of heavy rain…All soaked in.
Nobody was anticipating this. The temperature after the rains moved through was registering 72°…Now back up at 76°. The lightning was amazing! The wind was blowing!
And for over an hour we had [...]

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Currently (on Thu 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport)

Cloudy
Temp:
81° (Heat Index 87°)

Dewpoint:
75°

Wind:
Calm MPH

I stepped out on the back steps this morning as the coffee pot dripped and ran into a wall of heat. Yesterday at this time it the thermometer was reading 72°. What a difference a day makes. With this kind of headstart, the afternoon high [...]

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I stepped out my back door as the thermometer passed 100° F today and snapped this picture. The prognosticators say we had a heat index of 108° and it will be as hot tomorrow…
Statement as of 4:04 PM CDT on June 24, 2009
… Heat advisory in effect until 7 PM CDT Thursday…
The National Weather Service [...]

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Today was John Deere day on the homestead here. Spent the early, cooler half of the day out doing the Texas pinwheel. You know what I mean…’round and ’round she goes. Luckily, the wind was blowing lightly.
The anticipated rain from earlier in the week bypassed us as usual. I doubt we had even an inch [...]

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Here I am, enjoying the second day of our brief return to spring-like weather. The house is open and the day is the kind California and Florida like to claim they enjoy year round. A few small, fluffy, cotton-ball clouds are scattered across a blue sky…The breeze softly caresses the tops of the trees out [...]

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This morning dawned cool and clear. The temperature outside my kitchen was 58°.
The first thing I did was open the doors…Both front and back, to let the breeze blow through. Glorious…
With the door open I was able to once again hear the morning bird sympony. The birdsong was louder and (to my ear) more joyous [...]

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I find myself still borrowing my wife’s laptop to take care of online chores…Number two son should be by this afternoon with his set of diagnostics disks and tricks to see if what I have is a hardware problem to turn over to Dell…His being in New York every week for the past couple of [...]

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