It’s a little early for an overnight freeze, and it’s only forecast to be a light one of a few hours. But it’s the perfect topper to a dreary, rainy, and cold weekend. There’s five days left in the official hurricane season, but it’s probably already over.
UPDATE: At midnight, we’re at 37 degrees, and the mercury is headed south.
Strong cold front out of northwestern Canada is due through here tonight, after a week of cool mornings getting us ready to change seasons. Bit early for a freeze, but the LCRA’s Bob Rose and other meteorologists say there’ll be a light one tonight in hills west of the Rancho–while today’s forecast high of 87 degrees will plunge 25 degrees to just 63 by tomorrow afternoon.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Weather/Climate
Tagged Central Texas winter 2007
Amazing. It’s 41 degrees at the rancho. Been a chilly week. Bit early for this sort of thing.
Hurricane Katrina supposedly was the clincher in the notion that global warming is caused by nefarious human greed. But, two years later and with nothing like it to have come again, the most famous hurricane-forecasting meteorologist, William Grey, blames the salt content of the oceans. He says Al Gore and the Nobel peace prize committee are doing a disservice to humanity for saying otherwise. Grey believes the climate will swing to global cooling soon enough. It’s been said–I forget by who–that Gore et al are only pushing this phony apocalypse to give the Dems something to run on since, as much as they dislike Bush’s Iraq policy, they know in their hearts that they very likely would have been forced by events to do exactly the same thing–and, for the good of the country, they’d better not interfere with it too much.
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Posted in Iraq, The War, Weather/Climate
Tagged Al Gore, Hurricane Katrina, meteorologist, Nobel Peace Prize, William Grey
A Texas scientist I know has a sloop on Lake Travis named "Gravity Wave," which is handily explained here, but the link and this post is about another, much larger kind of gravity wave called an "undular bore." Stupid name, but an impressive event, as a train of thunderstorms recently spawned four gravity waves rolling through the atmosphere over Des Moines, Iowa.
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Posted in Sailing, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged gravity waves, thunderstorms, undular bore
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 materialized for long back then. He also blames a strengthening La Nina, which usually means a dry fall and winter for us. More here. It’s not a permalink. LCRA doesn’t seem to believe in them. But it should stay good through the weekend.
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Posted in Weather/Climate
Tagged Bob Rose, Central Texas weather, drought, La Nina 2007, LCRA
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