Friday, December 15th It's overcast.. but it's not cold.. it's also not hot.. and, it's the last day of school for 2023...
Monday, December 11th As the sun sets on a Sunday evening. It's a cold and frosty morning... Most of the color is on the ground! The season is mostly fall-en. It's probably as close as we're going to get to snow on the ground.
Friday, December 8th The day is dark and dreary. Warmish and damp. When I woke up this morning it was already 67°. Water was standing in the driveway. Windrows of blown damp leaves rested in piles like sand dunes on a beach. Out back the red oak leaves are falling..…
Monday, December 4th It's chilly out this morning. Almost too chilly for shorts and a t-shirt.. almost. While waiting for the sun to come up this morning, a song from an album of Rodney Crowell's first published in 1994 came up on my playlist. The album name caught my eye…
Friday, December 1st After more than 2 inches of rain yesterday, this morning dawned very, very foggy... 100% humidity. And it feels anything but fall like outside. The temperature this morning is 66°. But, the fall color is still working its way into the landscape...
Thursday, November 30th It's a damp but warm-ish morning. The weather prognosticators have been foretelling of a possible "weather event" for today. They began casting their warnings a couple of days ago.. One of the nice things about damp air and overcast skies is it brings out the fall colors…
Tuesday, November 14th The prognosticators are calling for another overcast day. But already this morning I can get a glimpse of patches of blue sky. And looking to the east the sun is trying to peek through the overcast. The day long light rain we had yesterday managed to drop…
Monday, November 13th It's a rainy cool Monday. While the temperature is only 61°, the dampness makes it feel much cooler.. though the wind blowing from the north probably sucks just a few degrees out of the air. It's pretty much been just like this since Friday. Though after our…
Tuesday, October 31st It's another wintry morning... At least as far as South East Texas winters go... Overcast, breezy, and quite cool for this time of year. I guess that is to be expected after our unseasonably hot and long summer. I must admit this is not an evening. I…
Saturday The rains have finally moved out after dropping almost 6" in 2 days. Had the fall color progression has started. Yesterday was the first time I spotted color over most of the oak tree. And today seems to be covering even more. The cold spell we had last week…
Thanksgiving Thursday After the summer we've had, I feel I should be giving thanks for the rain we are having... But as much as I love slow and steady, 2 inches in 2 hours is a bit much! Of course, when you are expecting 20 people for dinner, and all…
Tuesday It's another gloomy winter like morning. Yesterday's rain totaled over an inch, but just barely. And today's overcast isn't doing much to warm the morning. Yesterday afternoon I spent some time on YouTube catching the Austin City Limits Festival acts. And that led me to a really nice rendition…
monday It's comfortable out... And breezy... And from the forecast, the temperature is only going to rise a few degrees before it starts to fall again. I think I can really say, fall has arrived. Evidently, the front has already passed through my area. What with the strong breeze out…
saturday I barely beat the sun up this morning... And, this morning is once again very pleasantly in the upper 60's... Blue skies and calm winds... Enjoy the weekend.
thursday On the front porch again. And it's actually getting darker as a cool front blows through the area. Off to the north and east thunder rumbles. Hopefully, the grandkids will get on the bus before it decides to rain. Last evening before sunset we had a relatively small thunderstorm…
Where, Oh Where Is Winter? https://youtu.be/lv5AiHa5bZM This week has been very wintery looking at least... Though, truth be told, it hasn't felt at all seasonable. Overcast skies... Winds... But, temperatures keep topping out in the 70's and 80's... Even today. with a weather change in the forecast, most of the…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/sXqvcVjDnu8 It was another beautiful fall morning. Clear skies, a bit of haze hugging the ground, seasonably cool temperatures... The absolute best that fall has to offer this deep in the South... Last night before bed I played yesterday's video on YouTube on the TV. My wife made the…
Friday https://youtu.be/f5qwTaOLAo0 There's a pleasure in visiting the outdoors when both the temperature and the humidity meet in the lower 70s. And this morning I reaped the benefits of that pleasure when the temperature was 73° with a 73% humidity. I really do understand that this is just a preview…
Another prelude to winter. A reflection of winters long ago. Damp, cold, short dreary days followed by short dreary days. If this continues it will be a fitting end to the long and dreary year of Covid-19. A fitting end to a long four dreary years of living in the…
Lines of thunderstorms have been moving thru all day long... just now another line blew thru... and it really did blow.
Laying abed this morning, the light coming in from around the blinds was fading as the minutes passed. Now I see why... by the time I arose, the rumbles of distant thunder were making themselves heard. By the time I had acquired my record shots of the morning a mist…
When I first stepped out on the back porch this morning it was chilly and blustery... the wind chill was pushing the thirties. The overcast was so deep that the sun was doing little to brighten the day. Even now, almost an hour later, it's a dark wintery looking day.…
'Tis a frosty morn out this day. An appropriate way to start the final month of 2020. My weather app says it is 30 degrees outside and I believe it. All of my temperature sensors are on porches about the house and they average 3 to 4 degrees warmer. This…
It's a bit on the warm side this morning. And a lite rain is falling. Evidently it's been falling for awhile. The trees are filled with dozens of small birds. The muted colors of fall are more evident in the rain. But I'm still waiting for the full blown color…
It's cold and crisp this morning. The sounds of trains, traffic, and crows fill the pre-sunup day. Birds chirp and chatter. And every breath I take is visible in the air before me. I find myself at a loss for words today. Sitting, listening, thinking... not writing. It's just after…
The morning starts out warm and gray. An overall, overreaching, overwhelming gray to the world. Even the normally unheard cows in the neighbor's pasture are mooing mournfully. This transitional weather leaves a lot to be desired. Waiting for the change, anticipating the change even, frustrated by the slowness of the…
Ah, Saturday morning. Add in a cool front that had this morning's temperature in the 50's and a cool north breeze and the morning couldn't get much better. Though, I had to open the umbrella to keep the sun's glare out of my eyes so I can enjoy the morning.…
It's 50 minutes till sunrise, but already I can see fog around the lights in the neighborhood. It's not the normal ground fog either... even in the dark I can see it reaches to the tops of the trees. While it's not a pea soup kind of fog, I'm sure…
I had to open the umbrella again this morning... Clear skys, bright sunshine, slightly foggy air made it unbearably, glaringly brite. Opening the umbrella I woke a anole that had taken refuge inside the closed fabric... he is still roaming the fabric looking for breakfast. The morning an hour after…
Fog. The weather prognosticators say it's a dense fog. Out here on the back porch it's as dense as I've seen this fall... but not really all that dense. Just another fall sunrise of cool portents. The dense air is helping the traffic sounds travel from the bypass with a…
Ahhhhhh, sleeping in on a Saturday. Yesterday's windy, rainy weather has moved on to the northeast. Delta has churned her/his way onshore and into the interior were it's still spinning and looking very much like a Hurricane on land. According to the prognoticaters, this coolish morning will have to last…
Fall Morning Redux The whistling ducks flying over each morning keep growing in number... even as they loose all coherence as a flight. Flying over this morning I was reminded of watching a mob move through an environment. I was unable to really gauge there number, but at a guess,…
6:45 am The first real autumn morning. No ceiling fans required. The prognosticators promised a low in the 50's and they were blessed in their foretelling. The flock of whistling ducks grows larger by the day as it circles my house as the sky brightens. This morning it's the cardinals…
It really feels of fall this morning. Sixty-six wonderful degrees. What I am assuming is a clear sky... if there are clouds they aren't evident yet. A color on the eastern horizon even before first light. Birds singing, crows announcing themselves on their morning rounds. Theirs a low hazy ground…
It's a cool, breezy morning. Our first fall-like morning of the late, almost over summer season. But, don't worry, the heat and humidity will be back... we're not done with summer here on the Texas gulf coast. As a matter of fact, as you can see from the radar image…
Every day I look around in disbelief, remembering how surprised I was when spring began. I’m still busy being surprised by spring. I’ll be ready for fall by February, always behind the season and pretty certain I’ll never catch up. via Falling Behind the Season - Verlyn Klinkenborg. I always…
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…
Yesterday's frost is today's dew. Where the back field was sheeted in white, it now twinkles in the sun like a field of diamonds. The morning temperatures are 15° warmer today already. By afternoon yesterday, we went walking down to the bayou. Me, #2 grandson and the girls. There was…
I have really been enjoying the cool mornings this week. The weather prognosticators are promising more of the same for the next week...We even hit a low of 59° yesterday morning just as the sun came up...Nice. It has been great sitting out with my first cup as the sun comes up each day.…
...we've been having some fine October weather here in the middle of November. I love this season, when we get little junior-grade northers trying to push through, followed by three or four days of Chamber of Commerce weather -- no wind, soft light, high blue skies and temperatures we dreamed…
You may not need your sweaters, but mild fall temperatures are forecast to be nearly 10 degrees below normal today in the Houston area as light rain and clouds from a weak cool front help to keep mercury readings down. Temperatures should climb as the area dries out under sunny…