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108 degrees

Posted on July 10, 2008 | Comments Off on 108 degrees

Not here, no. In Sacramento, on Wednesday, where we left last Saturday after a week of what everyone there said was an unusual period of very pleasant temperatures, despite their lengthening drought and smoke from wildfires to the north.

Still, it’s hot enough here, though not quite as bad as when we left to go out there–a few degrees lower on the daily highs. But Jim Spencer’s forecast at KXAN is for the highs to get back to ninety-nine by the weekend with more to come. The triple-digit days are going to come back. This is the time of year when they normally start. This year they just started early, in late May. Maybe they’ll be too exhausted to return. Hope, hope.

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The warmup begins

Posted on January 4, 2008 | Comments Off on The warmup begins

It’s sixty-two degrees outside el rancho, the warmest night in weeks, and this is just the beginning, according to the folks at the National Weather Service. Courtesy of a northwesterly flow of good Gulf moisture which has the humidity in the seventies. Tomorrow, the temperature is supposed to be in the mid-seventies and broaching eighty degrees by Sunday afternoon. Even a cold front due through Monday night isn’t expected to cool things off much. Of course, Alan-the-Seablogger doesn’t expect it will last long. But a week to ten days of it will be a nice change.

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Turn around, don’t drown

Posted on June 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Turn around, don’t drown

With big storms moving in from the north, and some places out near the lakes picking up 3 inches or more, according to the LCRA’s automated guages, it seems timely to repeat the weather service slogan for low-water crossers, and to pass along this great site’s complete approach to Texas floods. For the rare reader who might benefit. I realize this isn’t radio, but it’s tempting to treat it that way sometimes. It’s not hard to get excited. We live in the most flash-flood prone part of North America.

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Rain, rain, go away

Posted on June 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Rain, rain, go away

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Hasn’t stopped raining for long since Friday, and this morning’s downpour was forecast as only a 20 percent chance. I guess we got all 20 percent–almost half an inch, which we can add to the other half inch of the weekend. As you can see the Texas flag is very adaptable. I suppose this was made in China, like so many other American consumer goods these days. I didn’t look.

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