THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Got home from the condo at Port A couple of hours ago. Met with heavy rain approaching the city from the south on 183, and a few showers within since then. Forecast to continue until nine p.m. or so. Cooled things off quite a bit. It’s eighty degrees at the moment. Forecast is back to [...]

Got home from the condo at Port A couple of hours ago. Met with heavy rain approaching the city from the south on 183, and a few showers within since then. Forecast to continue until nine p.m. or so. Cooled things off quite a bit. It’s eighty degrees at the moment. Forecast is back to [...]

KVUE meteorologists are predicting another unseasonably hot day, with a high of 97 degrees and a low in the 70s overnight, and similar temps through what has usually been a cool and wet Memorial Day weekend. That should bring smiles to the Global Warming apocolyptees, though these warm and cool periods came and went long [...]

April may the cruelest month, but May definitely is the wettest, at least in Central Texas. Think of Austin at the center of the circle and you have the radar situation last night a little after eleven. This morning the rancho had received almost an inch in twenty-four hours. But Tow, near Lake Buchanan, had [...]

April may the cruelest month, but May definitely is the wettest, at least in Central Texas. Think of Austin at the center of the circle and you have the radar situation last night a little after eleven. This morning the rancho had received almost an inch in twenty-four hours. But Tow, near Lake Buchanan, had [...]

April may the cruelest month, but May definitely is the wettest, at least in Central Texas. Think of Austin at the center of the circle and you have the radar situation last night a little after eleven. This morning the rancho had received almost an inch in twenty-four hours. But Tow, near Lake Buchanan, had [...]

Daytime highs are running 3.2 to 9.2 degrees above normal, the summer’s unusual rain has stopped, and it all looks to continue hot and dry for at least another week. So says LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose who blames a persistent area of high pressure, which would have been more appropriate in the summer but never [...]

Area creeks and streams aren’t the only things running fast and high these days. So’s the upper forty at the rancho, in the sense that the ground is thoroughly saturated. So when it rains hard for an hour or two like it did yesterday morning (bringing our rain total for the week to six inches) [...]

Rain chances are significantly diminished through Sunday until they rise to 50 percent on Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Nice to know. I can finish mowing the lower forty tomorrow. Unfortunately, Lake Travis is likely to remain in the flood pool until late in the week.

KVET/KASE meteorologist Troy Kimmel sees a "large organized southeastward moving cluster of thunderstorms just southeast of San Antonio is moving into the coastal plains" and theorizes: "My initial thought would be that this system.. being between us and the gulf moisture coming ashore from the Gulf of Mexico.. will temporarily disrupt the moisture flow and [...]