Six days (through Thursday) of triple-digit highs (was only 97 today) with, fortunately, some relief in sight, according to Bob Rose:
A few coastal showers will be possible the latter part of next week, but the majority of the region looks to stay dry. If this pattern develops as currently forecast, we should break out of our streak of 100-degree temperatures the latter part of next week.
That would be nice. Sunday morning is Summer Solstice, after all. Cooler days are coming…
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Posted in Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged LCRA Bob Rose, summer solstice
Sunday morning’s low was only about forty at the rancho, but the airport recorded two degrees below freezing. After a blistering summer, I was looking forward to a mild fall. Instead… Was only thirty-one in the back forty by first light today. Brrrr. All part of what the LCRA’s Bob Rose says looks like an early winter. The good part is his forecast of normal fall rain, though we haven’t seen it yet.
ONE GOOD THING: LCRA has updated their Hydromet Web site to make the maps easier to read.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged LCRA Bob Rose
It’s 90 degrees this afternoon. Yipes. It’s only April. But the polar jet already is retreating and the sub-tropical jet is pushing north, according to meteorologist Mark Murray of KVUE. A couple of fronts will try to get in later this week, and interact with a flow of warm. moist air off the Gulf of Mexico. But the sub-tropical jet, Mark says, will keep any cooling down and rain chances small. Rats.
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Posted in Weather/Climate
Tagged Central Texas weather April 2008, KVUE Mark Murray, LCRA Bob Rose
Cloudy, drizzly day at the rancho. After a week of rain, LCRA’s Bob Rose is expecting still more:
"The pattern so far this spring has been nothing short of amazing, with a parade of storm systems marching from southern California to Texas, with almost every one producing rain and thunderstorms over parts of Texas."
May is normally our wettest month. If it keeps raining, we could have big floods by June.
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Tagged Austin, Central Texas weather, LCRA Bob Rose
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