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Off to the beach

Off to Port Aransas today through Wednesday, where the National Weather Service forecasts highs in the eighties and twenty percent chance of showers through the period. Sure hope they’re right.

What a nice break it would be from the triple digits here. On the other hand, the humidity is above ninety percent which will push the heat index above one hundred. Port A cam aimed at part of the beach will tell the tale.

UPDATE:  The humidity was high, but it felt cool nevertheless, especially at night. Didn’t rain once. We got the rain coming home on the 12th, just outside of Austin.

Port Aransas fever

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This time of year, lots of inland Texans are thinking of the coast and the surf and the Gulf breezes. Course the latter come to us when there’s a good low-pressure area off to our west-northwest, sometimes bringing us the only summer rain we get. Anyhow, when we go we stay at the condo. Never have stayed at the little Tarpon Inn, at PortA, with its cavalry-barracks architecture, but lion tamer Clyde Beatty did, and cake-mix magnate Duncan Hines, etc., way back when. FDR caught a tarpon offshore, as many still do, but he slept somewhere else.