All that flooding in England and Wales sounds familiar. If we get much more rain, we’re going to have our own flooding problems here shortly. Another 80 percent chance today and another flash flood watch. I suppose we shall all grow flippers and webs between our toes soon enough. Feast or famine.
UPDATE The Mad Housewife is happy with all the rain. That’s good, because Bob Rose says there’s lots more to come.
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Tagged Central Texas, England, flash flood watch, flooding, Wales
Showers off and on this morning, as the storms roll north, and a swallowtail butterfly comes to call.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly
Tagged Austin, Central Texas, swallowtail butterfly
The Fat Guy is bemoaning the "shaggy" grass on his .55 acre, thanks to all the rain north and south central Texas has had in the past four days. He’s also suffering sun-deprivation. Indeed. The grass at the too-dark rancho also is threatening to need mowing soon. Rainwise, after a wet April with 3.71 inches at the airport, we got almost two inches more by midnight yesterday. So we’ve had about 19.5 inches for the year so far–which is more than half of the rain what we normally get in one year. On the other hand, it rained all night at the rancho, and those stats aren’t in yet. You could look it up, here.
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Tagged Austin weather, Central Texas, rain totals for April, The Fat Guy
Anderson Mill Marina on Lake Travis is back to normal after all the recent rain. Until a few weeks ago, however, it looked like this, which is what it had looked like since last summer thanks to the drought which now seems to be pretty much over. Lakes and aquifers are up. Goodbye to dry.
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Tagged Anderson Mill Marina, Central Texas, drought, Lake Travis
Thanks to storm runoff and the Llano and Pedernales rivers:
"With the recent rains, LCRA hydrologists are forecasting Lake Travis to rise to an elevation of about 662 to 664 feet above mean sea level (msl) by this weekend. That is about 8.5 to 10.5 feet above where the lake’s level was when rain began falling late Sunday. At 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Lake Travis had already risen by more than 4 feet to an elevation of 657.82 feet msl, which is still more than 13 feet below its average elevation for March. The last time Lake Travis was this high was in June 2006."
Now we’re into the range where we need to be for LT’s recovery, except June 2006 was mighty low. Still need another 10 to 20 feet to get back to near-normal.
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Tagged Central Texas, Lake Travis, LCRA, Lower Colorado River Authority
National Weather Service has an ominous few lines in its weather discussion. We’ve already had one fast-moving set of storms with no thunder or lightning but plenty of sudden, short rain:
MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW PW (Preciptable Water) LEVELS CLOSE TO HISTORICAL RECORDS…. THIS DOES NOT NECESSARILY TRANSLATE TO HISTORICAL FLOODING AS MARCH IS NOT CLIMATOLOGICALLY ONE OF OUR PEAK FLOODING MONTHS. THE CONTINUOUS THREAT OF RAIN SHOULD EVENTUALLY TRANSLATE TO A THREAT OF MAINSTEM RIVER FLOODING WITH THE WEST TO EAST PROGRESSION OF RAIN LIKELY TO HAVE A LARGER INFLUENCE OVER THE EASTERN HILL COUNTRY AND I-35 CORRIDOR AREAS.
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Wind from the southeast at about 15 mph is bringing in lots of moisture in clouds off the Gulf of Mexico, while a low pressure system out west is sucking in Pacific moisture and clouds from off the Baja Penninsula. Clouds just flowing across the rancho tonight, from the southeast, and it’s still 70 degrees. Not much rain expected, tho, until the low moves east on Saturday and Sunday, and then as it will only skirt us, just a moderate inch or so. Would be nice to have several inches, but it isn’t to be, apparently. Following Bob Rose’s forecast on Tuesday rather nicely.
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Tagged Bob Rose, Central Texas, Lower Colorado River Authority, meteorologist, weather
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 