Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Hurricanes a’comin’

Posted on June 21, 2010 | Comments Off on Hurricanes a’comin’

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 of the oil spill to our beaches, relieving the northern coast beaches that have gotten it so far. Might just disperse it. Or not. We’ll have to wait and see. But JB is calling for three storms to hit the spill.

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Leadership for America

Posted on June 8, 2010 | Comments Off on Leadership for America

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 alienated-from-the-rest-of-us nature. Meanwhile, the primaries show a resurgence of Reps. Hurry, Barry, not much time left to enact your radical agenda.

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Cool spell

Posted on June 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Cool spell

It was supposed to be in the triple digits today through the middle of next week. Fortunately, we’ve been spared. It’s now expected to only get to 97 degrees this afternoon and repeat that on Sunday. Be cooling down even further by Wednesday to a mere 92. Why, yes, I believe we can get through this summer yet.

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Scorcher today

Posted on May 29, 2010 | Comments Off on Scorcher today

National Weather Service is predicting a barn-burner for this afternoon, in the upper nineties for the first time this year. It usually rains on Memorial Day weekend. See the infamous Memorial Day flood so many years ago. This year there’s none forecast until Tuesday night at the earliest. I hope that changes. We need it. It’s been an unusually-dry May heading into a normally-dry summer.

UPDATE:  Prayers answered. Ten minutes of steady downpour at 4:45 p.m. overwhelming the gutters and creating puddles on the patio and in the street. Dropped the temperature more than ten degrees, into the low eighties.

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Roses on a rainy weekend

Posted on May 16, 2010 | Comments Off on Roses on a rainy weekend

redrose1Not our usual Rancho antiques, but reliable Knockouts, or Radrazz beauts.

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A full Lake Travis

Posted on May 5, 2010 | Comments Off on A full Lake Travis

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It probably won’t last at this height of slightly more than 681 feet above mean sea level, not if La Nina kicks in and we get another dry, scorching summer. But it’s certainly an improvement over last summer’s view of this then-dry upper end of Cypress Creek Arm.

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La Nina or no?

Posted on May 3, 2010 | Comments Off on La Nina or no?

Why does it matter? If she arrives early, say mid- to late-summer, we could have another dry scorcher. Then, as she strengthens in the fall into the winter, a warmer and drier winter. Or not.

The LCRA’s Bob Rose is on board for her early arrival, along with NOAA and Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi. But Anthony Watts at WUWT has a neat nay-saying article we might cross our fingers on. Because, among other things, La Nina would bring a stronger hurricane season. Which, this year, could mean pushing much more of that Gulf crude oil much farther ashore into Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Maybe even turn it the other way and push some of it into Texas.

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