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Hard freeze impending

Posted on January 5, 2014 | 2 comments

“Stay safe in the central [U.S.]- the next few day[s] will be brutal.”

That’s Joe D’Aleo at Weatherbell, adding to the warnings of regional meteorologists forecasting fourteen hours of below freezing temps for us, starting sometime later this evening. Which we call a hard freeze because we don’t get many of them this far south.

Tonight’s low is forecast to be 23 degrees and Monday night’s just 19 degrees. Hopefully, the air will warm up in between those lows.

Goodbye to the elephant ears in the rancho’s front beds. But they’ll bounce back from the roots in the spring I expect. And as long as the power stays on, we’ll be fine. We could rely on the gas log in the fireplace, if necessary, but we’d rather not.

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Another hard freeze

Posted on December 9, 2009 | Comments Off on Another hard freeze

And that’s just tonight. There’s plenty more to come, according to LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose:

"It’s interesting to note that some of today’s long-range forecast data is showing much of the country, including Texas, getting very cold in the period around Christmas.  It’s too early to tell anything about precipitation this far out but as far as temperature goes, the last couple of weeks of December could end up being very cold."

It’s more than interesting. It follows the recent sleeping sun and mocks the warmist scammers in the most direct way. Me, I’d prefer to have a normal Texas winter, i.e. confined to January where it belongs.

Alas, Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi expects our Xmas to mimic the one of 82-83 83-84 when Austin spent almost a week below freezing, even in the daytime, and in the thaw afterward water pipes burst all over town. Yech.

FREAK WINDS:  Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas were not a good place to be yesterday: "An automated weather station operated by the US Forecast Service about 2 miles north-northwest of Pine Springs reported a wind gust to 105 miles per hour."

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