THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

In  the forecast, anyhow. It’s August. July’s cool and rain is over. One of the coolest and wettest ever. It was pretty nice.
Time to whack us with triple-digit heat. So hundred-degree days are forecast thru Wednesday. Ninety-nines on Thursday and Friday. Yech.
Sez my old meteorologist buddy Bob Rose at the LCRA: “the center of the [...]

It’s been an amazing six years for the Martian rover Spirit. But the little robot may finally be dying in winter temps of almost seventy degrees below zero F. It hasn’t been heard from since March 22:
“The earliest date the rover could generate enough power to send a beep to Earth was calculated to be around July 23. [...]

Strictly unscientific. No statistics herein to prove it. But July is almost over and we have yet to hit a hundred degrees. Usually, well, the last few years, we’d have done that by now. Still time, of course, but so far it hovers in the low nineties.

For some time now, the health of Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, has been sinking. It seems that he is near death:
“Steve and Tim have conferred with Dr. D. this morning. He told them that there is little hope of Alan ever communicating again. Accordingly, they directed Dr. D. to discontinue ‘heroic [...]

What Hurricane Alex did to the Rio Bravo (Mexican version) at Laredo with another storm with more rain on the way today and tomorrow.

When science turns strictly political: 496 scientists, some quite distinguished, whose protests on AGW the National Academy of Sciences says should not be believed. Amazing. And scary. First there was the faking of results. Now the Nazification.
Via Instapundit.

It’s easy enough to conclude that our feckless president simply doesn’t care about a bunch of Red States getting crude oil on their beaches, even if one of them is the home of the saintly New Orleans, target of national hand-wringing just a few years ago—back when there was a Republican in the White House [...]

We’ve had more than an inch since Tuesday afternoon, when moisture from the storm in the Gulf began flowing in. This afternoon we’re expected to get the outer bands of rain directly. Or as the National Weather Service says:
“SPIRAL BANDS FROM ALEX WILL BEGIN TO IMPACT THE LOCAL
AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND PROBABLY LASTING INTO THE [...]

By the end of the week, we could have the first one entering the Gulf of Mexico, says Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi. The western Caribbean sure is warm enough. Where will it head after that? Somewhere from northern Florida west around the coast to Tampico.
Unfortunately for the Texas coast, hurricanes spin counterclockwise which might bring some [...]

Miles of oil containment boom is waiting for use in the Gulf of Mexico, but the feds? Not interested. (Wait’ll the first hurricane. That’ll motivate ‘em.)
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE:  Barry is rapidly tarnishing his own image, and not just in the oil spill, but by his weakling postures on this or that, his radical choices, and his [...]