Here I sit, on my front porch, waiting for the first bus, And I find myself thinking this would be the perfect morning,,, for a June or July! But here we are in the first week of February... I see my birthday forecast calls for a high of 80° too.…
It's early afternoon and I have discovered that seeing a solid field of bright white on the ground outside my windows is a strangely unnerving sight. It's contrary to anything I've really experienced. I've never lived somewhere where snow was common, And the few snows of this magnitude that I've…
https://youtu.be/Z2HdqIHOJpk Not quite what the forecasters were predicting, but... more than we are used to!
And all through the house thunder is boomingWhile children sleep after overindulging on the day itself,Up on the housetop the sound of rain and hail can be heard...Luckily, Saint Nick has made it home from his eventful day...So... As I sit and enjoy the peace and quiet of the house,I'll…
The crews lined out street for most of the day. Then this happened... So for the past two hours we've been looking at this... Maybe we'll get power... Eventually...
Monday, October 30th Today opens with overcast skies and blustery winds blowing from what seems like the north pole... https://youtu.be/DIUylHWBl0I
Tuesday August 29th It does not feel as pleasant out this morning as I expected. I'm not really sure exactly what the difference is.. The humidity is reasonable.. The temperature is not bad.. Even the dew point is reasonable.. and yet sitting on the front porch with the fan on…
Monday August 28th Out on the porch this morning and while the temperature isn't cool... The dew point at 72° makes it almost pleasant. Last night at bedtime the radar image was pleasantly surprising. Quite a large portion of Southeast Texas showing rain. Not that the water flowing from the…
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.…
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 isn't conducive to back porch contemplation... And look at that.. it already feels like 88°…
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.…
Monday April 10th It's another overcast start to the day. It's a pleasant 63° out though. The winds are calm. Basically, it's pretty much a repeat of oh so many days so far this year. Warmer than some, cooler than others.. The unifying bit about most of them is the…
Friday April 7th It's a cool 59° this morning with a light rain falling. There's a steady breeze blowing out of the north at 10 mph. The breeze is just hard enough to make the tree limbs sigh as a move back and forth. Once again, we are facing a…
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…
Tuesday January 24th It's cool, breezy, and wet already this morning. Though the temperature is almost 60°, there is a rather strong breeze blowing a fine misty rain... And the prognosticators are promising this is just the start of a blustery weather day... Some cold fronts come into Houston like…
Monday January 23rd When I woke up this morning My phone said the temperature was 43°... Now that the sun is up my phone says the temperature is 40°. Of course, the sky is cloudless.... The winds are calm... So I guess it's not surprising that the air temperature would…
Saturday January 21st It's mid-afternoon, but, it's looked like this all day long. It's 53° right now... The same as it was at 7:00 a.m. this morning. There's been light rain falling off and on all day long. So far 3/4 of an inch has fallen. The look and the…
Friday January 20th It's a cool and breezy 57° this morning. And when I say breezy I mean the wind chimes are singing on the front porch. The wind chill made me get up and move rather quickly after the bus arrived. From the looks of things outside, it's going…
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, January 10th It's already 61 ° and there's a "Dense Fog Advisory" out there. Since it's still dark out I have no idea if it actually is foggy... As the world outside my window begins to lighten I see that the "Advisory" was correct. The world is shrouded in…
Sunday, January 8th It was a wild and stormy night... Thunder and lightning... An inch of rain fell while we slept. This morning on the back porch it's cool and windy. The temperature is 57°, the wind out of the north is gusting to 20 mph. The clouds in the…
Saturday, January 7th It's the beginning of what the prognosticators are foretelling will be a wet weekend. As usual, we will have to wait and see what happens in the long run. Though at the moment it's a pleasant 62° out on the back porch. While reading yesterday, an old…
Monday, January 2nd Another overcast start to a New Year's day. I am out on the back porch once again and the temperature this morning is a balmy 72°... Not a temperature many of us associate with the first of January. Especially not with the start of a day in…
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…
Monday Ten days ago a cold front blew into Houston, and since that time the region has experienced weather that is typical for the dead of winter, not late fall. The city’s warmest temperature during that timespan has been just 61 degrees, with lows in the 30s and 40s. Houston…
friday It's a wet and stormy looking Friday... Puddles stand on the drive. And even though it's the warmest morning of the week... There's a chill in the air, a certain seasonal portent. With the grandkids off to school I'm just sitting and reading a bit with my music playing…
tuesday Boy... Stepping out this morning was a pleasant shock. Fall weather, when it finally comes, is too nice. It makes me remember why I dislike summer so much... The guys at Space City Weather reminded us that the last time we reached or projected low for tonight was back…
tuesday The sky was changing rapidly as the sun was rising this morning... The sweep of color moved from one side to the other in a matter of minutes. Once again the path of the sun has transited the house. Rising in the front in summer... It has now switched…
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,…
