Tuesday, January 9th This morning's temperature is a chilly 43°. It would be pleasant except there's a very strong breeze out of the north northwest. Once again though, we are definitely in the winter time roller coaster. Check out the extended forecast... I find myself just a little bit leary…
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Monday, December 18th As the sun comes up the skies are clear with a ground haze drifting through. The temperature this morning is it chilly? 41°. And yet, the prognosticators are foretelling of a high today of at least 70°... And so, here we are, a week before Christmas. And…
Saturday, September 16th The view from the back door. Looking southeast at sunrise. South Southeast at sunrise. South Southwest at sunrise. This morning's weather. Self-portrait in Shadow No. 2 This week's cumulative rain as of September 16th.
Thursday, September 14th What a difference a day can make... Yesterday afternoon we had a good rain shower about the time the kids got home from school. Fall total. It probably rained. Three quarters of an inch. Today's forecast looks like it could even be wetter. Yesterday morning when I…
Saturday, September 9th These are the kind of mornings that I love to take photos of. It's cool out... Well, somewhat... The humidity is not as high as normal even though it has raised overnight and it's sprinkling now. It's late on Saturday morning. I slept in after the light…
Friday September 8th Sitting out on the front porch once again.. on what the weather prognosticators are saying "should" be the last in a long line of heat advisory days. I must admit sitting out before sunup, it isn't too unpleasant. Once again, the hummingbirds are chirping in the pre-dawn…
Thursday, September 7th According to the readings on the weather app it shouldn't feel this pleasant on the front porch. But with the fan blowing, it's almost chill. According to my phone, it's a comfortable 77°. Over the past few days we've had a massive influx of hummingbirds. It seems…
Tuesday September 5th Walking out of the front porch this morning before sunup I was slapped in the face by summer. If you look at the screen capture below you might notice that the feels like temperature is above 90° this morning. The humidity is up.. The dew point is…
Thursday August 31st Yesterday was the first morning in a long, long time that it was actually pleasant sitting on the front porch. So much so, that even though I turned the fan on, I had to get up and turn it back off because the wind chill was actually…
Thursday August 24th It's just another hot and humid morning in SE Texas... Without a drop of rain in the forecast. I was sitting around today when I noticed the second airplane buzzing by over the house... And for some reason that triggered a memory from my childhood. We lived…
Tuesday August 22nd When I woke up this morning I did what I always do and glanced at my phone... This morning I was gob smacked by the temperature I saw at 5:15am. Once I was up I double checked everywhere.. and sadly all sources agreed.. The overnight low made…
Monday August 21st The only difference between this morning and every other morning since school started is the addition of clouds to the sky. Which means there's additional color in the sunrise. But trust me when I say it's hot as hell here this month. It seems like every afternoon…
Friday August 18th Well yesterday morning was definitely a one of... The pleasantly cool morning on the front porch without a fan was definitely too much to expect a repeat. Though, I do see some upper 70s for overnight lows in the upcoming forecast... But for now, the first bus…
Thursday August 17th I really wish I could say that I could get used to the way the morning feels. But sadly that's not the case.. this is a one of.. just a single instance of an actual coolish morning. The temperature outside this morning is a cool 71° -…
Tuesday August 16th Once again, I find myself sitting in the heat heat and humidity of my front porch as I await the second coming of a school bus. And then, I see the weather prognosticators are teasing me with the following headlines... And the part they're not saying.. and…
Friday August 11th It's just another hot August morning in Southeast Texas. There are a few clouds floating around in the sky but there's not enough moisture to even wet your mouth. It's exactly this time of year that I start hearing the call of the mountains... And I guess…
Thursday August 10th It's the start of a new school year here ... It's the first day of school. So my days are starting even earlier than last year. The grandkids, at least the two living with me, are now in two different schools riding two different buses. My grandson…
Tuesday August 8th It's another hot summer's day that I couldn't drag myself into the heat for my morning pictures. So here are some from early afternoon... It's still hot though check out the thermometer on the back porch. Once many years ago I posted some photographs I took during…
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, as is my normal habit come this time of year, I am hibernating as much…
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 if only the temperature wasn't 100°... Well I'm staying cool in the house... How about…
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 from the pictures above it's hot, it's dry.. like most past Augusts the grass is…
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 was glancing thru my Facebook feed this morning I saw a link to a podcast…
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 and bright for the foreseeable future.Eric Berger, Space City Weather And this is what he's…
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 not through with us yet. Well my day will be full of running around again…
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 young girls X Factor audition from over ten years ago... Janet Devlin's appearance on the…
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 has caught up with me and I need to get my car in and get…
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 an excessive heat warning for today. These moderately cooler temperatures—mostly highs in the mid-90s instead…
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 evening, primarily along the sea breeze. Rain chances today are probably in the neighborhood of…
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 lightning flashes in the sky while the storm was still to the north of Kingwood.…
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 bit of change this morning. I switched the above graphic from my Weather Underground app…
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 degrees, sultry humidity, and only very light south winds offering scant relief. Outside of the…
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 was 86.7 degrees, and July was 88.0 degrees, both of which beat the previous monthly records by…
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 to provide some big picture perspective on summer. It is now July 17. Some parts…
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 it's only visible in the distance. Counting Down To 70 Years – 205 Days
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 discovered I had had a typo back in April that added 10 days to my…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Tuesday June 6th Space City Weather keeps warning that these cool mornings will come to an end here shortly. And I'm sure they're right, because the humidity is rising. But as long as the dew points hang below 70°, I think I'll be happy. Once again it's mostly quiet out.…
Monday June 5th It's not as cool as it was when the power was out yesterday morning. The temperature this morning is 70°, the dew point is 68°. The only breeze is being supplied by the ceiling fans. The sun is trying to get above the clouds on the eastern…
Saturday June 3rd The sun is up.. breakfast is over.. The coffee pot is empty. The temperature is already 82°. This is probably the latest I have posted, and taking pictures, and a long long time. It's a normal Saturday.. not much on the agenda other than grocery runs. I…
Friday June 2nd I an really enjoying these unexpectedly spring-like days we've had this week. Lower than expected overnight lows.. lower than expected afternoon humidity.. gulf breezes as the day warms.. all in all, a quite pleasant week to end May and start June... As I was sitting and putting…
Memorial Day Monday May 29th This mornings clouds came as a bit of a surprise. The forecast hadn't called for them.. but there they are. And it feels like the summer time dew points are coming back. The rain chances are pushing 80% this morning and thunderstorms are already in…
Friday May 26th A person could get used to these spring-like mornings at the end of May. The temperature on the front porch this morning is 71°, the dew point is 67°. Please do points in the '60s have been making in the mornings quite pleasant. Though with afternoon highs…
Tuesday May 23rd Not quite as overcast.. High thin clouds only.. Sun threatening to break thru.. The temperature is 70° with a dew point of 68°. So it feels like another nice spring morning. TuesdaySkies will be mostly sunny today, with high temperatures in the upper 80s to 90 degrees.…
Monday May 22nd Once again clouds fill the morning sky... The temperature is 71° with a dew point of 66°. So it actuality it really does feel like a nice spring morning. I am out on the front porch waiting for the bus. This is the last week of this…
Tuesday May 16th The morning dawned quite foggy. According to my phone, it's 72° this morning. It's quite humid. But according to Space City Weather, we are supposed to have a front move through this evening that will bring dryer air. It'll also drop the overnight lows into the upper…
Monday May 15th Stepped out before sunup to just a little bit more color. It's just a bit cooler this morning at 74°. Though now that I'm on the front porch waiting for the bus the sun has decided to hide behind the clouds. The forecast for the day has…
Sunday May 14th Happy Mother's Day Mother's Day, 10:00 a.m. It's once again muggy and wet. Which is a bit strange as it's only 74 °. But, then again, the dew point is 72 °. Which pretty much means the air is saturated. It's been raining of and on for…
Saturday May 6th ... and summer continues... Busy.. not much to say.. weather's blah and muggy... gonna curl up with a good (or not so good) read and chill... catch y'all on the other side... Counting Down To 70 Years -276 Days
Friday May 5th It's like walking into a sauna when I step outside this morning. The morning temperature is already 77°. The sun is trying to burn through the layer of clouds. And what little bit of breeze there is, is not making it to the bench I'm sitting on..…
Tuesday May 2nd It is a nice comfortable morning. The temperature is 61°. The winds are calm. I have a hard time calling it a spring morning though with the projected high going up into the mid '80s.. or even higher. Here lately I've been listening to a lot of…
Monday May 1st It's another cool and clear morning on the back porch. The day started at 56°. According to the extended forecast, this should be our last morning in the '50s for a while. By Friday morning the daily lows will be in the '70s. Summer's coming... Good morning.…
Sunday April 30th It's a cool and clear morning.. 51 degrees.. still winds.. heavy dew on the grass. A beautiful Sunday morning. I've already made a run for breakfast takos. It's becoming a Sunday tradition. John Prine is playing on the speaker.. Willie was playing earlier.. Rodney Crowell has been…
Saturday April 29th The morning dawned cool and blustery after the thunderstorms of las evening worked their way out of the area, The temperature has been falling all morning as the winds make the trees dance. When I woke up this morning the temperature was in the low 60's.. it's…
Tuesday April 25th It's a pleasantly cool 66° this morning. It's forecast to go up to 77°.. it's also on the forecast to be cloudy all day. But then again, what's new this year? I will say this.. being a half week over on my laundry sure made for a…
Monday April 24th It's just a bit on the chill side this morning... My phone says the temperature is 56°. But you know what? With the moisture in the air it feels cooler than that. Well, yesterday's weather turned out pretty much like I mentioned it might. Thunderstorms rolled across…
Sunday April 23rd It's a pleasant 63° this morning. And the above little bit of clear sky on the eastern horizon is probably the only time today we'll see the sun.. or even evidence that it's up there. What you see in the first picture above is the eastern edge…
Friday April 21st We had a very interesting night last night. Shortly after 4:00 a.m. a line of thunderstorms blew through our area. Heavy rain, lots of lightning and thunder.. it made for a very interesting early morning. My wife texted after she got to work that the street lights…
Tuesday April 11th It's a fairly pleasant morning on the front porch. The temperature is 63°. There's no apparent breeze. And scattered amongst the overcast or big patches and blue sky.. maybe I shouldn't say big.. okay there are visible patches of blue sky. Though, truth be told, the sun…
Monday April 3rd It's already warm and muggy this morning.. The temperature is 74°. The guys at Space City weather are predicting the high today will approach 90°. Not exactly what I would like for an early spring day. Right now it's very still. And other than the traffic, the…
Thursday March 30th It's another overcast morning. And it's a breezy 68° with a 92% humidity. The wind is out of the east, so it will be bringing golf moisture in over us all day long. This week I visited with another collector of GC Meyers artwork. I met her…
Monday March 27th Another very foggy morning in SE Texas. It's 69° this morning. And very very muggy. Over the weekend my wife and I were talking and my ex employer came up. During COVID they shut down their operations in Houston and I was wondering what they were doing…
Tuesday March 21st What a difference a day can make ... The temperature this morning is 62°. The high today is going to be closing in on 80°. Welcome to spring. Once again, it's totally overcast. That's pretty much been the story of this winter.. mostly cloudy. I'm sitting on…
Monday March 20th Welcome Spring... Today I woke to an outside temperature of 35°. According to the guys at Space Center Weather this should be the last time we see temperatures this low for a good long while... The grandkids are headed back to school after being off all last…
Saturday March 18th It's another wet and chilly morning. A light rain is falling. The temperature is 45°. It's almost 9:00 a.m. and it's still dark and gloomy out. Between all of the pollen in the air and the temperature changes I'm really sniffing and snorting around here. Since I'm…
Friday March 17th The world outside looks green. But that's appropriate for St Patrick's Day... This morning it's raining. The temperature is 46° but the wind chill has it feeling like 40°. And there's a steady north wind of at least 15 mph with gusts of 25 mph. So once…
Thursday March 16th It's a warmish muggy morning. Heavily overcast. The temperature is 71°. I waited to take the pictures above but the sky hasn't changed since before sunup. The weather today should be interesting.. starting out warm and cooling down overnight. The prognosticators are even foretelling of rain passing…
Tuesday March 14th Last Quarter Moon over the Backyard It's another beautiful spring morning. There's a slight breeze from the north blowing this morning. And the temperature is a spring-like 54°. Yesterday ended up being an absolutely spectacular day for most of the area, except perhaps southwest of Galveston, which…
Monday March 13th Spring has returned. The temperature this morning is 56°. And it feels much more spring-like on the back porch. It's breezy. The wind's blowing out of the northeast making the tree limbs dance. Happy Monday, y’all! We tacked on two more 80 degree days over the weekend,…
Thursday February 23rd Out on the porch this morning... It's a warm 70° with just a bit of humidity. It kind of looks like we're back in the pattern of overcast mornings. The kind of days that look seasonal, you know it looks like it ought to be cold out,…