Tuesday February 14th Valentine's Day Two years ago on this date the deep freeze settled in on Texas. This morning the temperature is 69°. Texas weather... As they say, just wait a few minutes and it'll change. According to the prognosticators, it'll be in the upper, upper 70s today (may…
Friday February 3rd What can you say about the weather this week? The only word that comes to my mind is... Ditto... Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat Though, no sooner did I start this post, then the sun broke through the clouds ... It's the end of a law in jury…
Thursday February 2nd It's another of these long dreary days. It's 41° and there's a light misty rain falling. It's the same light Misty rain that was falling last night before bedtime. According to the guys at Space City Weather, this week will be the last of our coolish winter…
Tuesday January 31st Just another in a long line of overcast starts to a cold and dreary day. It's 40° this morning with maybe a 10° warm up as the day goes by before we start out tomorrow at 40° with only a 5° warmer. To the north and west…
Monday January 30th It's another dreary winter day. The temperature this morning was 50°. It's damp... it's breezy... it's chilly. But, all in all, it's not a bad day for the end of January. Although, it does look a little too green out. Since the temperatures are predicted to stay…
Sunday January 29th It's another spring-like day in Southeast Texas... Wet, temperate, breezy... Not what you would expect for the end of January. The temperature right now is 73°. It's already rained enough for water to be standing in all the low spots. And from the looks of the forecast,…
Saturday January 28th It was 60° this morning on the back porch. It's been raining lightly off and on. According to the prognosticators we can expect this weather pattern to last for most of the week. I saw something that I haven't seen in a while this morning. A round…
Tuesday January 17th It's not feeling much like winter this morning... 67° before the sun comes up... and as the world outside my window lights up... there's a bit of fog hanging around. I've always been impressed with how, around here anyway, when it looks the most like winter is…
Tuesday The sun is up... The sky is a deep blue. Cloudless. It's a blue that only appears in winter. On cold, crisp mornings. Maybe we should name it... Winter's Blue... We are in the post Christmas doldrums. The days between Christmas and New Years... Between anticipation and anxiety... The…
Friday This Old PorchThe weather outside is frightful... My Old Porch, Christmas Morning 2004 This old porch is just a long timeOf waiting and forgettingAnd remembering the coming backAnd not crying about the leavingAnd remembering the falling downAnd the laughter of the curse of luckFrom all of those sons-of-bitchesWho said…
Thursday Winter is coming... Real Winter... Not this fake stuff we normally have pass thru Houston on the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Hard freeze all the way to the coast. All of the local governments are getting upset,,, but they are still shutting down for a long Christmas…
Tuesday While it's not cold out per se... It does have a look of winter. The temperature is hovering right around the 50° mark where it will pretty much stay for the next two days. The prognosticators are foretelling that we might even see 70° temperatures before the bottom falls…
Monday The calm before the storm... There is an overcast to the day... A heaviness hanging in the air... A portent of expectations blowing on the winds... A coastal low pressure system is helping to drive rain showers across the metro area this morning, and these will continue on and…
Friday It's almost 10° warmer this morning. Still, it's much more seasonable than the above 70° start we've been having. The Christmas Day forecast is out... The low Christmas morning will be in the '30s. The high Christmas Day will just reach 50°... About what it is right now. It…
Thursday It's finally feeling like the season... again. After teasing us with an early week of colder than normal weather, Mother Nature brought summer back for a long visit... Today we've moved back to feeling like it looks... 42 degrees on the porch this morning. I guess it's time to…
Thursday Well, once again it's warm and muggy. The temperature starting today is 72°. Almost all of the leaves have fallen from the Red Oak. The pictures above show yesterday and today's leaf coverage. And with the overcast that starts each day, it really looks like winter outside though decidedly…
Friday And just like that, the weather, she has turned on a dime... The morning temperature is 64°. And the humidity is up. Which makes the fall colors pop. At this point I almost feel like I'm living in one of GC Myers red tree paintings. For my whole life…
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…
Rain Even a slow and steady rain can add up when it comes down all day....
Saturday It's a cool 49° and raining. My bald cypress is starting to get it's color on. But without any Chinese tallow trees around the area the fall colors haven't taken off yet. And since the first trees to be cleared whenever anyone clears land are the tallows, they are…
Monday Awake with the light of day just brightening the morn and the wind chimes on the front porch are having one hell of a conversation. Our little bit of winter has backed of for just one day with a almost fall like morning... for just a day! The prognosticators…
thursday A bit chilly out this morning. Though, not quite as chilly as yesterday morning... And... The humidity is starting to rise again. The weather is quite the complement to last nights supper... Chili and beans. And no matter what folks might say, this Texas boy always puts beans in…
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…
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…
monday The pleasant fall temperatures are holding this morning. And while it isn't in the low 50's, the upper 50's are nice enough. Moisture is beginning to work it's way back into the atmosphere in the form of high lite clouds. So far October is turning out to be a…
It's Friday, the end of September. For the very first time in a long time, the temperature this morning is in the '50s. And the forecast is for a couple of more days of these sweet lows... I even have a window open letting some of the fresh air... Cool…
It's Thursday These mornings are so appreciated after our never-ending summer. Starting temperatures below seventy are what I base my definition of a pleasant day... Add in a nice northerly breeze and it couldn't get much better. The Space City Weather guys are promising more of the same for the…
It's Monday The still before the storm... Well, at least the steel before the front. It's warm out, they're reporting that it's 76° this morning. That's warm, really warm to start the day. Though the prognosticators are promising a fairly radical change overnight. Tomorrow's low is projected to be 63°.…
It's Monday From a seared brown to an Irish green in less than a month. While the scattered rains have barely fallen on us The last couple of weeks, we've had enough rain this month to bring the green back to the yard... Also back for another year is the…
Between 2:30pm and 3:15pm Friday 2.25" of rain fell.
It's Friday The above radar image is what was happening as the grandkids got on the bus for their second day of school. Between then and now we've had 1.25" of rain. Yesterday afternoon we had 1.6" and lost power for a couple of hours as the storms moved thru,…
It's Friday https://youtu.be/rz2fil577mE It's been another day of listening to thunder... Watching lightning... And only seeing about 5 minutes of rain. The video above shows a loop from this morning to this afternoon... One of the magnolias out in the front bed has lost 95% of its leaves. My small…
It's Monday Well, once again, the rains that fell yesterday... Fell around us not on us. It's really becoming the story of the summer. Thunderstorms passing so close you can feel the mist in the air... But, little or no rain actually falls on our house. There was an afternoon…
It's Saturday After weeks of flirting and hooded eyes, Mother Nature finally graced us with a mere pittance of moisture in the form of a five minute shower. It's raining again now. But, as it has been for what seems like forever, the majority of the thunderstorms are brushing past…
It's Saturday Not much to say today, other than... It's hot.
It's Thursday I was dragged reluctantly from my slumber by the distant rumblings of thunder at 5am this morning. As I lay there listening... contemplating the rarity of this sound lately... thinking I really should watch this rare event... moisture falling from the sky... RAIN. So I stumbled out of…
Once again, thunder is all we got...
It's Tuesday There are clouds to the east of us... There are clouds to the west of us... But there are no clouds to the south of us, or over us... The prognosticators are foretelling of a chance of scattered showers this afternoon. Unfortunately for us, these chances of precipitation…
It's Sunday Just saying...
And, it's Friday Rain, rain everywhere... Just not here. More often than not, the radar image above is the way the rain pattern around here looks. Rain will move right up to the edge of my hometown and stop falling. I can watch it happen in real time. It's almost…
It's Saturday Nothing more needs to be said...
It's Friday Hello... So says my granddaughters chalk art on the back porch when I walked out. She's been busy out there covering quite a bit of the porch with her chalk art. Though when I walked out I wasn't paying much attention to the ground beneath my feet. I…
Thursday, Cinco de Mayo When I walked out with my granddaughter this morning I did something I haven't done before... I pulled up the podcast app on my phone. The first thing I listened to was Birdnote, a short little daily podcast about birds. By the time I walked out…
Wordless Wednesday https://youtu.be/LcuFBwrCu70
Friday Baby it's cold outside... At least for the Texas Gulf Coast it's cold. Morning temperature at 8:30 a.m. was 27°. At least we don't seem to have ice or sleet or even snow. As usual, at any hint of weather... The school district here shut the schools down today.…
Thursday https://youtu.be/GOZFOxv1kP0 Good morning. The cold front has pushed off the coast, and temperatures have fallen into the upper 30s to low 40s for most of the region. Our primary concern remains the potential for rainfall to turn into wintry precipitation this evening, and during the overnight hours. Secondarily, we…
Monday https://youtu.be/qBb_XFutqjo Think of that surge of joy we feel, Upon seeing the magnificence Of which the sky is capable, As a sort of call and response: An echo and reminder Of the magnificent possibilities within us, Waiting to bloom forth and be seen. ~Diane Walker~ Overnight the weather gods…
Thursday https://youtu.be/AEmrTMiWfPA I live in my own mind Ain't nothin but a good time No rain just the sunshine Out here in my own mind I live where I can breathe Ain't nothin but a cool breeze Nobody that it won't please Out here where I can breathe This morning…
Christmas Eve Christmas Past... Way, Way Past 195619571958195919601961A typical set of mid-20th century family Christmas Cards. Sent out to extended family and friends to keep everyone aware of the growth of the family and the family members. The photo of me surrounded by puppies in the previous post was actually…
It's A Misty, Rainy Monday https://youtu.be/-V916SIXYmc A pre-dawn rain shower started the day... Warmer than normal... The overnight low never reached 70... I've been battling squirrels all weekend... I can't keep them off of my birdfeeders... over and over I've had to chase them off. It seems this years crop…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/bJdGtOeuWzg It looks like this return to summer is almost over. Tomorrow we have a front moving through... Rain, wind, and cooling temperatures... Thursday is forecast to be cool and breezy. I doubt I will have many posts this week, as my wife is off work. That being the…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/MubjkD_S1i8 As I took the photos in the video this morning hummingbirds were buzzing right by my head. As I stood less than 6 inches from a feeder two hummers sat and ate right beside my face. When one would leave another would take it's place. Others were on…
Monday https://youtu.be/zPmWhAYhb2g Overnight a cool front blew through. It's setting offshore now. And, while cooler, it's not really cool. The morning temperature is right at 70°. And the forecast high for the day is in the upper 80s... Not what most people would call fall weather. But, then again, this…
Friday https://youtu.be/AAdTZJN8eto Today is wet! Yesterday we had a heavy midday thunderstorm that dropped quite a bit of water. Overnight more thunderstorms move through the area. Today is just wet! The yard is full of standing water in all of the low spots. Today is just wet! Stepping outside this…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/GBHFlEXVJMs After I woke grandkid number one this morning, I stepped out on the back porch into what felt like a return to summer... The temperature was above 75°, and the humidity was pushing 100%. Off in the distance lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled softly. For the first bus…
Thursday https://youtu.be/BRW_W3SA7H8 After a breezy Wednesday, Thursday was cool, still, and clear. The temperature this morning when I walked out on the back porch was 58°. The humidity wasn't even felt. Photographs was heavy with dew. It definitely feels like fall today. The sun is out, shining brightly. My long-distance…
Monday https://youtu.be/86W2GOTVkfc We're just waiting for the weather to change... Me and the hummingbirds... There are dozens swarming around the feeders front and back. They and I are waiting for the cold front the prognosticators are promising us in the next couple of days. Me... I'll enjoy sitting on the…
Monday https://youtu.be/c4ztBxxPtAA It's a wet, almost stormy morning to start this week. Way down south in the Gulf is tropical storm Nicholas. The prognosticators are saying TS Nick will come ashore sometime today south of us on the coast. So, well we won't be looking for heavy winds, the prognosticators…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/C12iyMzql2o There's been a real change in the feeling of the world today... But it's only the weather. And though the humidity is at 97%, with the temperature at 72°. It feels like fall might actually be on the way. And looking at the prognosticators foretelling for the next…
Monday, Labor Day https://youtu.be/z8QJmdAeP3I Walking out on the back porch this morning it felt cooler. Though, truth be told at 78°, it's been cooler of a morning. But then I pulled up the humidity... And in the mid '80s that's enough of a difference to make it feel much cooler.…
Friday https://youtu.be/tI6tGQ0XbFg I walked out on the back porch this morning in the pre-dawn dark with stars shining overhead and lightning flashing to the south. Thunderstorms offshore, headed our way. The temperature in the upper 70s and the humidity in the upper 90s, it wasn't particularly pleasant in that pre-dawn…
Friday https://youtu.be/ai9yfQc-S9A Last night about midnight Mother Nature put on another light and sound show. When I woke up this morning a light rain was still falling. And though the temperature was nicely in the mid-seventies, that high humidity was stalking the earth once again... When I went out this…
Thursday https://youtu.be/j99EFe07ZY8 When I walked out to the car this morning to run the kids to the end of the driveway for their buses the car wouldn't start. It had been acting like the battery was getting low and the starter was dragging so now it was time to do…
Sunday https://youtu.be/pjVwlHmwMd8 Walking out this morning was almost painful. The temperature was already 78 degrees and the humidity was 90%... Pretty much right where it should be for this time of year, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. The only thing worse than summers on the Texas…
Tuesday Well, the temperature at 74° is quite pleasant, the humidity at 97% is visible in the air as a haze. I'm letting the grandkids get one last day of summer sleep before I start rousting them out of bed early, they're really going to be sad when they start…
Friday the 13th This would be an auspicious day for my grandfather. He always claimed that 13 was his lucky number. It always seemed to be good for him. Let's hope, it's good for me too... And good for you. We're having another of those cooler than normal August mornings.…
Thursday I'm finding it a bit unusual for the morning temperatures to be below 80 at this time of the year. I'm not complaining, Lord knows I hate the heat. And the humidity is high as always... Right now it's 78°,, and the humidity is 93%. Since it's Thursday, I…
Thursday For the first time in a long time the humidity is below 80% this morning. As a matter of fact The humidity and the temperature are both at 77. The front actually made it through and out into the gulf. So while the cooldown wasn't much, the lower humidity…
Tuesday, Laundry Day The clouds are back this morning, and it's not quite 80°. Though the humidity is at 94%. It really doesn't feel that pleasant out... But it could be worse. It looks like the sun will be playing hide and seek most of the day. It's actually been…
Sunday AIR QUALITY ALERTISSUED: 1:44 PM JUL. 25, 2021 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...Ozone Action Day... The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Houston, Galveston, and Brazoria areas for Monday, July 26, 2021. Atmospheric conditions are expected to be favorable for producing high…
Laundry day, Tuesday Water is standing everywhere outside from the overnight rains. It's coolish at 78°. But, the humidity is at 93%. According to the weather underground in the last 24 hours I estimate we've had 2 and 3/4 in of rain... I would believe it. When the thunderstorm moved…
Lightning, lightning, lightning everywhere.
Friday It's in the upper 80s this morning. The humidity is in the 90% range. So I thought I would step out into the shade of the front porch. There's a frontal boundary running from North Texas all the way up to New England. The radar shows quite a bit…
Friday And the rains continue... It's a pleasant 73° on the front porch this morning. And yes, the humidity is high, but what do you expect when it's raining. And the range just keep on falling. We had a small murder of crows on the front on yesterday. I've been…
Thursday Last night, or actually very, very early this morning, the line of thunderstorms moved through dropping a nice amount of rain but more importantly, knocking out our power... Again. I think this year will go down in our personal history books as the year the Texas power grid failed…
Tuesday It feels cooler out this morning... Maybe because it is just a few degrees. With the temperature at 76° and the humidity at 90%. It's surprising the difference 3° in temperature can make. Thunderstorms move through the area after 2:00 a.m. this morning. The rumble of thunder off in…
Saturday The sun was just peeking over the horizon as I stepped out this morning. At 77 degrees it wasn't too summery to feel oppressive. It's rather quiet out this morning. The house is sleeping... Along with everyone in it. But the coffee maker has made coffee and I feel…
Thursday The sun is out this morning, and it's warm, and it's humid. There's not much breeze blowing. But, the birds are singing. The cicadas haven't woken up really. And I just pulled the garbage bin to the road... The weather pattern this last week has been strange. Blue skies…
Well it's not too warm yet this morning, 78°... Though it is fairly humid, we've already had showers move through the area and water stands on the driveway. According to the morning prognosticators foretelling there is still above 50% chance of rain today into this afternoon. There's almost the same…
Laying about this morning, in no hurry to get out of bed. Sunday morning sleeping in... But, once I do step out this summer day is fully sprung. It's 83°, and the humidity is 81%. Not obnoxiously summer, but summer just the same. It's going to be a long, long…
Thunder and lightning moved through earlier, so even now a singular rumble of thunder moves across the landscape. But funny thing, no rain fell. The driveway is dry. At least the temperature is down and the upper 70s for a change. Though I'm sure, the humidity is still high. And…
Looking at the photos above gives you a pretty good idea of what's happening in the atmosphere. We sit on the northwest corner of a massive clouds rolling out into the gulf. So to the east in the first picture it's full on overcast. To the south in the middle…
It's not quite as warm as yesterday but the humidity is higher. It's 77° with a 95% humidity. The humidity is so high you can see it... There's a slight fog hanging over the landscape. Well, my quiet week at home is winding down. Tomorrow will bring the grandkids home...…
Another warm and humid morning... The temperature is already 80°, the humidity is at 88%. It's one of those mornings that when you walk outside you have to wipe the condensation off your glasses... twice. It looks like we'll manage to get another day of no rain. At least if…
Stepping out this morning wasn't pleasant. With a temperature of 78°and a humidity of 87% it felt too warm and too muggy for early June. One of the first things I saw this morning on my WordPress app was a happy anniversary note. It seems this is my 14th anniversary…
These clear sunny mornings sure don't end up that way. Yesterday is clear morning was mostly cloudy before noon. But I was all the range managed to miss us. Once again it's 76° outside, though the humidity is only 84%... It's a veritable desert for this part of the country.…
Isn't a pleasant morning out this a.m. The temperature is 75°, but the humidity is 92%. It's like walking with a warm wet blanket wrapped around your body. Add to that, but the buzz of mosquitoes is almost louder than the morning bird song and all is not right with…
They're slight evidence this morning that the sun actually does exist. Though, it's warm and humid, at 74 degrees this morning it isn't very pleasant out. The 10-day forecast still has us under a threat of precipitation for the next 3 days... At least for now. And the temperatures are…
Another, in a long line of other, overcast start to the day. The morning temperature is 72°. And it's quite humid outside, which is only to be expected after the rains for the past week. The weather prognosticators are hinting that a tropical system may form in the Gulf off…
Happy Birthday Sis It was a wild and stormy night, thunder rumbled and lightning flash ed almost all of it. Just as it seemed the thunder and lightning show was over, just as I would begin to drift off to sleep again, thunder would boom and rumble... It's still lightly…