Monday August 7th We are in the monotony of long hot summer days. The forecast doesn’t change. Rain is not in the long-term future even. Just day after day of hot, dry, oppressive temperatures. So,…

Sunday August 6th This is an ice water muse. It’s mid-afternoon and it’s too hot for coffee… Though looking at the humidity and of the dew point, you would almost think it would be comfortable…

Saturday August 5th I was in no hurry to get up and get moving this morning. So here it is not quite an hour before noon and I’m still drinking coffee. As you can see…

Friday August 4th I got busy and forgot to post these pictures… And I really don’t have anything to say… So have a great weekend.

Thursday August 3rd It should be no surprise to anyone reading this blog that I am a bleeding heart liberal. And as such, I find today to be quite disconcerting. The very fact that this…

Wednesday August 2nd Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 188 Days

Tuesday August 1st Happy Birthday Sherry We managed to break or tie high temperatures yesterday as we ended July 2023. We have a good chance to do it again as we enter August. As I…

Monday July 31st The lead at Space City Weather isn’t hope inspiring… Yes, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.Unfortunately, that light is the Sun. And it’s going to be blazing hot…

Sunday July 30th Not much changing.. it’s hot.. it’s still.. and it’s dry … Don’t have much to say today so I’ll just say.. have a great day and I’ll catch y’all on the other…

Saturday July 29th I am enjoying this break from the excessive heat of this summer. The prognosticators assure me that my break will not last long. Summer still has a ways to go.. she is…

Friday July 28th It’s another in a long line of sunny and hot mornings in SE Texas. The prognosticators are foretelling of plenty of the same to come… Not too long ago I recalled a…

Thursday July 27th The overnight low bottomed out at 73°. That’s almost unheard of for this summer. The forecasted high is still at 96° though. And the chance of rain is below 20%… My procrastination…

Wednesday July 26th Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday July 25th “A combination of slightly cooler temperatures and slightly lower dewpoints means that the National Weather Service, for the first time in more than two weeks, has not issued a heat advisory or…

Monday July 24th “High temperatures today will likely top out in the mid- to upper-90s for most of the region, with mostly sunny skies. Showers and thunderstorms will be possible from early afternoon through early…

Sunday Evening After the storm.

Sunday July 23rd Mother nature put on a hell of a light show last night. A rather large thunderstorm moved south along the east side of Galveston Bay after dark yesterday. We could see the…

Saturday July 22nd I am late for my morning coffee. I just couldn’t pull myself out of bed this morning. It’s just as well, nothing has changed.. it’s hot.. it’s humid.. it’s summer. Just a…

Friday July 21st It’s another warm start to a hot day in Southeast Texas. Not much has changed in the past few weeks.. The morning low fluctuates a degree or two.. The daytime high does…

Thursday July 20th I thought I was seeing things this morning when I saw the temperature my phone was reporting… “Today will be much like the previous days this week, with high temperatures reaching 100…

Wednesday July 19th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 202 Days

Tuesday July 18th “By raw temperature values, June and July 2022 were each the hottest June and July that Houston experienced in about a century and a half of records. The average temperature last June…

Monday June 17th The morning fog is a bit heavier this morning which is funny because the humidity is lower the dew point is lower and the temperature is a degree higher… “I also want…

Sunday July 16th What a difference a day can make. The temperature in the dew point is identical at 77°. And even though the humidity is 100%, the fog in the air is so slight…

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…

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…

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…

Wednesday July 12th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 209 Days

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°…

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…

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…

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…

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….

Wednesday July 5th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 216 Days

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Wednesday June 28th Wordless Wednesday Counting Down To 70 Years – 223 Days

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Wednesday June 21st Wordless Wednesday

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…

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…