Sitting out with my coffee as the sun came up this morning I was hearing the distant rumble of thunder. Scanning the horizon line I could see nothing through the haze to explain it. Once I came in and turned on the computer I could see the fun. It is all located offshore at this time. An it probably won’t make it into our area.
Last evening we watched (and listened to) thunderstorms on all sides. From the radar they must have come to within a mile our so of the house. But as usual, not a single drop of rain fell on us. The weather prognosticators were saying last night that after today we will not see even a chance of rain for another week…This is beginning to get very, very old.
And here is what the Houston Chronicle had to say about it all this morning…
The sizzle continued over the weekend on Sunday as Houston recorded its warmest June day in history at 105 degrees. That’s only 4 degrees short of the hottest temperature ever measured in Houston, 109 degrees on Sept. 4, 1990. Violent thunderstorms in the evening slightly cooled the area, but also knocked out power to 66,000 customers while delivering little rain.
As the local National Weather Service office reported in an almost awestruck tone, “new maximum temperature records … have been established on four out of the first five days of June. Galveston and Houston both crushed their previous high temperature for the day [Sunday] by seven … yes, seven degrees.” Monday also set records in Houston and Galveston.
Magnifying the continuing heat is the perhaps not coincidental drought gripping most of Texas. Houston is more than 12 inches behind its normal rainfall of just over 19 inches by early June.
I hope you get rain soon. We were so very dry here-but have now been getting a shower almost every evening.
Thanks Tipper, I’m not holding out much hope unless we end up with a storm brewing up off shore. This has been one of the longest driest times I can remember and I’ve lived through some really long dry spells before.