2023 Day 196
Saturday July 15th The humidity this morning is not so high as to be visible hanging in the air... Though the temperature at 80° is not where I want to start my day. Counting Down To 70 Years – 206 Days
Author: Gary Boyd
2023 Day 195
Friday July 14th There is just a slight haze hugging the ground this morning. It's not thick enough to be fog. Basically, it's just the 97% humidity. And when you add that humidity to the dew point of 78° our temperature of 79° feels much warmer. So needless to say,…
2023 Day 194
Thursday July 13th It's another one of those glass fogging mornings when stepping out on the back porch covers your glasses with a layer of condensation that takes three tries to wipe off. The first thing that greeted my eyes when I picked up my phone was another excessive heat…
2023 Day 193
Wednesday July 12th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 209 Days
2023 Day 192
Tuesday July 11th Well, I missed posting yesterday.. and I slept in today. It really doesn't change the fact that summer is here and it's hot outside and getting hotter. Today's dew point at 80° pretty much says it all... And then, there's this from Space City Weather.. This is…
2023 Day 190
Sunday July 9th We are back in high summer here on the Texas Gulf Coast. When the temperature is a degree above the dew point at 79 degrees and the humidity is only 2% below 100%. It ain't nice out on the back porch this morning. Yesterday we were surprised…
2023 Day 189
Saturday July 8th I woke up this morning to a bright sunny morning.. Then I rolled over and snoozed some more. When I finally drug myself out of bed the sun was well up. As for the weather... Cloudless skies and sunshine are foretelling of a very warm day to…
2023 Day 188
Friday July 7th Weather Muses - The overcast this morning is complete. You can almost make out where the sun is on the horizon.. almost. As far as temperatures and humidity and dew points go .. it is all pretty much a repeat of yesterday. Speaking of yesterday, we had…
2023 Day 187
Thursday July 6th Weather muses... This morning it is really cloudy. Though the temperature, the humidity, and the dew point are all about the same as they have been.. there is a slight downward trend. The rain showers that have been in the area for the past few days have…
2023 Day 186
Wednesday July 5th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 216 Days
2023 Day 185
Tuesday July 4th Independence Day The only difference I am seeing from day to day is whether or not there are any clouds in the sky. The morning temperature is mostly the same. The morning humidity.. it's mostly the same. And the dew point.. Don't get me talking about the…
2023 Day 184
Monday July 3rd The weather is still the same... 78, 94,76...temperature, humidity, dew point. And so the outlook is pretty much the same on this backside of the year. We've completed the first half of 2023. Today is the first day of the back half... As it's the third day…
2023 Day 183
Sunday July 2nd It's Sunday morning.. and I'm sitting on the back porch in my rocking chair. Other than the sound of the ceiling fans, and just a little bit of noise from the bypass, I am hearing the loud singing of a Carolina wren as the sun coming up…
2023 Day 182
Saturday July 1st Wow, it almost feels like a midsummer morning out there.. The temperature is 77°.. The dew point is 75°.. and the humidity while high is 94%. All of which means it's hazy out this morning. But it's not severely warm. But it's the weekend, and weekends are…
2023 Day 181
Friday June 30th While my weather app is saying it's 80° out, my back porch indoor/outdoor thermometer is telling me it's 78° and so is my cell phone. Whatever the temperature, it's warm.. but.. not as warm and not as oppressively hot feeling as last week. And, if you believe…
2023 Day 180
Thursday June 29th Walking out this morning, for the second morning in a row, it wasn't totally oppressive. The temperature was a balmy 78°.. The dew point was hanging at 76°.. of course the humidity was its normal 95%... Now don't get me wrong, it's still warm and I'd be…
2023 Day 179
Wednesday June 28th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 223 Days
2023 Day 178
Tuesday June 27th I actually got up early.. then I got involved in my computer.. I broke away long enough to take the above shots. Then I got involved in my computer again... Then I discovered I had had a typo back in April that added 10 days to my…
2023 Day 177
Monday June 26th Well, it's another day that I won't be sitting on the back porch. Even with the ceiling fans on, an 80° day with a 78° dew point and a 94% humidity just isn't conducive to back porch contemplation... And look at that.. it already feels like 88°…
2023 Day 176
Sunday June 25th I stayed in bed for a bit this morning. And so the sun is up.. The temperature is up.. The humidity is down. Do you see that "feels like" temperature? It's not even 8:30 in the morning and it feels like it's 97° outside... Not a lot…
2023 Day 175
Saturday June 24th It's hot. It's humid. And the dew point is at August levels. In other words, it's pretty much a repeat of yesterday.. and the day before.. and a preview of what's to come.. at least for the coming week to 10 days. It's the weekend.. Saturday morning…
2023 Day 174
Friday June 23rd It's warm. It's humid. It's hazy.. though it looks more like smoke than fog. But, either I am getting acclimatized or else something else is happening.. because it really doesn't feel as oppressively warm as it has. I mean look at it.. The temperature's 80°, the dew…
2023 Day 173
Thursday June 22nd Wow... The light show last night was amazing. And the thunderous applause was nothing.. but thunder. At the very least it gave us a break in the weather. While it's not really cool.. The morning's temperature of 77° sure feels that way. When you add in the…
2023 Day 172
Wednesday June 21st Wordless Wednesday
2023 Day 171
Tuesday June 20th I had to get up and get gone early this morning. It was my annual pilgrimage to fulfill the bureaucratic requirements of the school district. For some reason I am required each year to affirm in front of a notary public that the residents that I have…
2023 Day 170
Monday June 19th Juneteenth Every time I stepped outside yesterday I had this strange disorienting feeling that I had fallen asleep and slept through the month of July and skipped right into August. That was what the day felt like, a normal hot humid August day. If this is a…
2023 Day 169
Sunday June 18th Happy Father's Day The sky is overcast this morning, but there's hardly any rain in the forecast. Instead it's acting like a thick woolen blanket to hold the heat down on the ground. And it's still in a bang-up job because it's very very warm and muggy.…
2023 Day 168
Saturday June 17th The sun isn't up just yet and the temperature and dew points are already oppressive. The humidity is actually higher than yesterday... I haven't even poured my first cup of coffee... But I'm out here on the back porch anyway. I noticed yesterday that we have moved…
2023 Day 167
Friday June 16th Usually about twice per summer or so, the heat in Houston goes to what I call the next level, where it's hot like always, but it just feels worse. This is the type of heat where your body can truly suffer if you don't take it seriously.…
2023 Day 166
Thursday June 15th Stepping out the door this morning, the heated advisory slapped me in my face. It's already hot, it's already humid and the sun isn't even over the horizon yet. Just look at the dew point.. 78°. The Eastern horizon is just a wall of haze. Pale pink…
