Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Black boxes search goes on

Posted on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Black boxes search goes on

The French research vessel, the Pourquoi Pas? (the Why Not?) is still searching for AF 447 and its black boxes, an effort due to end in mid-August. Now Airbus is offering to pay for another search after that.

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Port Aransas fever

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Port Aransas fever

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This time of year, lots of inland Texans are thinking of the coast and the surf and the Gulf breezes. Course the latter come to us when there’s a good low-pressure area off to our west-northwest, sometimes bringing us the only summer rain we get. Anyhow, when we go we stay at the condo. Never have stayed at the little Tarpon Inn, at PortA, with its cavalry-barracks architecture, but lion tamer Clyde Beatty did, and cake-mix magnate Duncan Hines, etc., way back when. FDR caught a tarpon offshore, as many still do, but he slept somewhere else.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Rain on Red Bud leaves

Posted on July 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Rain on Red Bud leaves

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This works a bit better than the Turk’s Cap shot below. It’s busier but at least you can see the rain drops on the leaves. The toy tugboat in the background used to be a tub toy. Since relegated to the Back Forty.

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Rain on Turk’s Cap

Posted on July 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Rain on Turk’s Cap

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A little fuzzy, this quickie snap of our surprise and very welcome morning rain shower. Figured the rain would show up best on this native Turk’s Cap "bush" which attracts hummingbirds. This older shot of the plant is somewhat better. I’m glad I don’t have to make a living as a photographer.

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Hottest July On Record

Posted on July 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Hottest July On Record

That’s here, in Centex land, with a probable average high temp of at least 89.4 degrees for the month. Of course the record only goes back to the 1850s or so. The previous record was 89.1 in July, 1870.

Too bad the Indians didn’t have thermometers and keep records or we might know more. As it is, unless you’re a diehard global warmist, the record’s length is not very impressive. But the heat has been utterly oppressive, and the worst may be to come. August generally is the hottest and driest month around here.

And with no named tropical storm yet this hurricane season we can’t even count on that to cool us off.

Via LCRA meterologist Bob Rose.

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Texas: Pre-flood

Posted on July 19, 2009 | Comments Off on Texas: Pre-flood

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How bad is our drought? This bad. But I feel sure there’ll be major flooding by late fall.

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“Flight level 330…

Posted on July 17, 2009 | Comments Off on “Flight level 330…

…and begging to go higher and faster." Captain Dave, somewhere over the Heartland of the Empire, does it again. Poetically.

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