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,…
Friday Finally... After weeks and weeks... We get more than a trace amount of rain. So far, coming up on noon, we're measuring just below 3/10 of an inch. And it's been slow, it's been steady, it's been just what we need... A soaking rain. I can only hope that…
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…
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 Monday The prognosticators are giving us an optimistic foretelling of moisture falling from the heavens... The rain chances are rising. As you can see, the skies to the east are looking a bit unsettled this morning. The foretelling is of early afternoon thunderstorms scattered around the area. Looking at…
It's Sunday And, it's still hot out. It looks like it's going to stay that way for the foreseeable future. So I'll be spending most of my time in the indoor environment in comfort...
It's Saturday Nothing more needs to be said...
Tuesday Waiting for the storm... https://youtu.be/QTZDCmksz_s And in less than an hour... It's done!
Saturday afternoon Cool with a light, misty rain falling... The day has been stuck in the low 40s and the overcast has hung on... ... And on this weekend say a special prayer for the people of the Ukraine...
Friday https://youtu.be/i3XBfF6Vf-4 It's gray and cool and damp today... It was gray and cool and damp yesterday... too. It's been gray a lot... or so it seems. Even when it is anything but cool... it is still more gray than not. I was watching Austin City Limits this past week.…
Thursday It's a bit foggy out this morning. The temperature when I first walked out was 38°. It'll get up into the 70s later today... Southeast Texas weather and its best. The photos above show my neighbors new toy... Picked up an old Ford pickup truck for his young daughter.…
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 Just to show you how deceiving looks can be... The morning looks decidedly wintery... But the temperatures or anything but. At the moment it's 63° at 10:00 a.m. had the prognosticators or say it will get up into the mid to '70s by afternoon. They are also warning that…
Thursday https://youtu.be/xtHVLR8JzeQ IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY It's a thing of bliss, Like a morning kiss; When the sun says hello to my heart. Takes me by the hand. And I understand, That the world is God's own work of art. ~Robert Nehls~ This morning dawned to a clearing sky. At…
Monday “Only a select few are able to see the true beauty that lies behind what just might seem like a rainy day or a grey sky.” ~Jessica M. Laar~ It's overcast today. The temperature is a mild 50°. There's a misty rain falling. Even though these overcast days are…
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…
Friday https://youtu.be/7GSQKo-HTKU This morning dawned clear and cool... again. The day is sunny and destined to rise into the mid 70's. Just another ride on the rollercoaster that is SE Texas weather. Tomorrow's high is forecast to be 60 degrees at 5am... From there on the prognosticators are foretelling of…
Monday https://youtu.be/TogpMApAscE Once again from summer to not... What a way to run a climate! This morning as the sun comes up the temperature is still dropping... so much so, that the sun is well up before the overnight low is reached. The wind out of the north has a…
Friday https://youtu.be/-DpqI0wuFQU For once it actually feels like it looks outside. The temperature is down around 40 degrees, the sky is totally overcast, and the wind chimes are singing a blustery song. It's a morning to curl up with a streaming fire on the television for virtual warmth... While native…
Tuesday https://youtu.be/ccAEcr-bx28 I've gotten out of the habit of putting these posts out in the ether... But, today the kids are back in school, the house is empty, and Eric Clapton is playing on the computer... Also, finally the never-ending summerlike weather has broken for a few days. We even…
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…
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…
Sunday Sunset https://youtu.be/E5iOoXnsB-o Tropical Storm Nicholas has layered in clouds that came to life after the sun set...
Saturday Hurricane Ida I wasn't going to post anything this morning because I slept in... Then I saw this animation of Ida on Windy.com. I started playing with the video recorder and then tried outputting it as a gif... So here we are.
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…
I love weekends. Before covid, I slept in most days... even through the summer I didn't have to get up early. Now that school has started, and virtual school does keep a school schedule, I'm up before the sun five days a week. So... I love weekends... again. I doubt…
During the early morning/late night hours, thunderstorms moved thru. Lightning flashed filling my dark bedroom with brightness. Thunder cracked loudly. I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep. For the first time in a long time my alarm was set and I had to get up early. You…
It's officially cooler after lunch than it was at the start of the day...
Another summer morning hanging on into fall. A bit of morning fog hangs low over the neighbor's yard. The warm stillness feels like a too long goodbye to summer. It's also another morning of impeachment news and, of course, Presidential Tweets. In other news, the prognosticators are foretelling of a…
Imelda... she's brought over 24 hours of almost constant rainfall. Somewhere in the 6 - 8 inches of rainfall overnight. And once again the schools around here are closed. So we once more have a houseful. It's gonna be a long day. But even with the rain, the hummingbirds are…
Not musing this morning, had a doctors appointment. Back at the house and it's just been raining all day. Here's what I'm seeing on Wunderground... Hello Imelda.
Another cool rainy start on the front porch... stale smoke odors from the pit... mourning doves providing the background sounds to this morning coffee muses.
Warm, overcast, and humid start to my morning coffee muses.
Sunny but cold, a breezy morning coffee muses.
It's cold, it's raining, the winds are gusting on this morning coffee muses.
Day Three Of Harvey Morning Coffee Muses
A Wet, Loud, Gonna Get Wetter Morning Coffee Muse
A Pre Tropical Storm Morning Coffee Muses
Humidity and overcast skies for this Morning Coffee Muses
It was hot to the point of sweat running down on the front porch this morning. It was also loud, the sounds from the bypass sounding much closer than their quarter mile distance. So, since I'm running so behind have some photos... More later.... Gotta go do Deere meditations.
Just Another Hot And Humid Spring Morning Coffee Muses
Hot and Muggy Morning Coffee Muses
Not Too Warm But Very Muggy Morning Coffee Muses
Another Rainy Cool Morning Coffee Muses
A Wet And Thunderous Night Turns Into A Wet Thunderous Morning Coffee Muses
A Cool Pacific Northwest Kind Of Morning Coffee Muses
Waiting For The Prognosticator's Stormy Morning Coffee Muses
A Loud And Heavy Morning Coffee Muses
The Calm Before The Storm Morning Coffee Muses
A Muggy Not Hot Not Cool Morning Coffee Muses
A Hippity Hopping Morning Coffee Muses
Another Beautiful Summer's Day Two Months Early Morning Coffee Muses
Cool and Breezy on Another Overcast Daylight Savings Morning Coffee Muses
Rainy Sunday Morning Coffee Muses
Wedgwood Blue Skies For My Morning Coffee Muses
Cool Rainy Morning Coffee Muses
Warm And Muggy Sunday Morning Coffee Muses.
Another Springtime In Winter Morning Coffee Muses
Cool Almost Wintery Morning Coffee Muses.
Thunderously Stormy Valentines Morning Coffee Muses
Cool Damp Misty Morning Coffee Muses
Another Warm And Muggy Sunday Morning Coffee Muses.
Warm Muggy Winter's Morning Coffee Muses.