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A convenient use

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Posted on January 17, 2009 in Weather/Climate

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Brrrr

Posted on January 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Brrrr

Looks like this morning’s low of eighteen at the airport and thirty in the central city will be the worst we get even after the advertised Arctic air mass dives east and southeast on Thursday. It’s expected to bypass us in South Central Texas, partly because of another air mass of Gulf moisture pushing northwest tonight. So we’ll sympathize with all you freezing snow bunnies but rejoice that we don’t have to join you in the misery.

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The sun, the sun…

Posted on December 24, 2008 | Comments Off on The sun, the sun…

Finally, I awaken to sunshine and a moderate warm morning. Temps are climbing into the seventies. Now that’s the real Central Texas Christmas I remember. Others may crave cold. But not me.

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Solstice adieu

Posted on December 22, 2008 | Comments Off on Solstice adieu

Well, I made it past another solstice, without feeling the need for an Anglo-Saxon costume drama. Just a quiet day, despite the frigid aftermath of another overnight Blue Norther. Finishing Iron Sunrise, another good Charles Stross SF novel, and thinking of the seasonal carols of my youth, Adeste Fideles and Hark The Herald Angels Sing. Then I did the annual reading of his Maccabees book to Mr. Boy before we lit the first Hanukkah candle. For the next few days we will be singing Santa and Reindeer songs for his and Mrs. Charm’s secular celebration of Christmas.

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Reprieve from brrr

Posted on December 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Reprieve from brrr

Finally, it’s warming up again at the rancho after a seemingly endless period of thrity-degree days and nights. But meteorologist Bob Rose says we’re due for more blasts of arctic cold this weekend and next week. How long, as AGW’s critics like to say, does the climate have to cool before the warmists recognize that Al Gore’s warnings are lies? Not to mention the hitherto unremarked but probable climatic effects of the solar wind’s surprise assault.

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Posted on December 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Brrr

It’s well below freezing out in the hills, with the twenty-three at Menard the lowest. Just thirty-one degrees at the rancho but we’re inside the urban heat island. Bit of freezing rain, but not enough to jog the gauges of the Lower Colorado River Authority, much less crack the regional drought.

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Snow in Houston

Posted on December 10, 2008 | Comments Off on Snow in Houston

A family friend, recently removed from Maryland to Houston, leaves a phone message not to bother to return the call just to share in her amazement: "It’s snowing in Houston!" Fortunately, it’s merely freezing in Austin.

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