Heat...Heat...Heat...That's what summer in Texas is all about. It's 10am and this was just on the Weather Underground... the small print under the temperature...The heat index. It already feels like 108°. This time last week I was beginning to feel like I had been transported to the Emerald Isle... Outside my…
For the last week it has seemed more like spring than the middle of January. But, the screen capture above says it all...70° at 9am on January 22 just isn't right. If this holds for another week, there will be no doubt that this January will be one for the record…
My wife and I were having a conversation about the weather/climate of our youth. What brought the conversation up was the fact that I was mowing grass in our yard on January 11 as the temperature approach 70°. I commented on the fact that when I was a teenager in…
It looks as if all of the rain from Tropical Storm Lee has managed to miss my part (and most of the rest) of Texas. We were really hoping to have a couple of days of the wet, soggy stuff falling on our heads... It didn't happen that way so…
After watching a far off lightning show on Wednesday evening yesterday morning brought a wondrous sight...A rather large thunderous rainstorm blew through our immediate area. The winds blew, lightning blasted the ground over and over again setting car alarms off all over town and then it rained for a couple of hours at…
The sun came up this morning over a frosty backyard. Frost two days in a row...Pretty unprecedented for this neck of the woods. It's been a different sort of "winter" already...And it's only really just beginning. These frosty morns leading up to pleasantly cool afternoons with highs in the 60's...What…
