Texas Summer 2023

[Yukon Cornelius]

Saw another interesting factoid from a local TV met and confirmed by our NWS office … Austin this summer has had the most number of hours at or above 100° in recorded history. We’re at 279 hours. Apparently even 2011 can’t match it.

HOTTEST SUMMER EVER! Ugh.

Dang wxman57 and his ever-heat-loving thermostat!

Not surprised. Feel bad for the farmers & ranchers and wildlife & plants. The period from 2011 to now has been brutal. Texas A&M forestry estimated 300 million (or more) trees lost in 2011. I'm sure many more were lost in 2021 Snowpocalypse and the 2023 ice storms.

Yeah, we’re all struggling. Water wells are running dry, zero grazing, stock ponds are drying up, no second cutting of hay this year, grasshoppers destroying all and every crop, livestock dying from heat stress. I get that people are struggling in this heat but y’all truly don’t understand if you don’t own livestock or plant. This summer has been hell on a whole different level.

[wxman57]

Looks like we're finally getting rid of this cool weather of late and moving into the warmer part of summer! Of course, these are not daily highs, just raw 2-meter temps valid at 4pm. Could it get warmer? It's a dry heat, though. On the bright side, for some of you who are not enjoying the pleasant, warm weather, the Euro doesn't even have our highs topping 105F!

[wxman57]

I guess all good things must come to an end. A cold, rainy Labor Day weekend. Look at those dew points at the end of the month. Of course, the GFS out through 384 hours is always 100% correct.

[Tireman4]

I guess all good things must come to an end. A cold, rainy Labor Day weekend. Look at those dew points at the end of the month. Of course, the GFS out through 384 hours is always 100% correct.

http://wxman57.com/images/GFSExtendedAug19.JPG

Ugh, sir. This feels like 2011 again when you were gloating and laughing at we cold mongers. Sigh

[wxman57]

I guess all good things must come to an end. A cold, rainy Labor Day weekend. Look at those dew points at the end of the month. Of course, the GFS out through 384 hours is always 100% correct.

http://wxman57.com/images/GFSExtendedAug19.JPG

Ugh, sir. This feels like 2011 again when you were gloating and laughing at we cold mongers. Sigh

I'll make a confession here - I'd really like to see some rain. I miss the old summer days when we would see towering cumulus and hear thunder (and get rain).

[Iceresistance]

Dear god, I reached 107°F today

[BrokenGlass]

I guess all good things must come to an end. A cold, rainy Labor Day weekend. Look at those dew points at the end of the month. Of course, the GFS out through 384 hours is always 100% correct.

http://wxman57.com/images/GFSExtendedAug19.JPG

Ugh, sir. This feels like 2011 again when you were gloating and laughing at we cold mongers. Sigh

I'll make a confession here - I'd really like to see some rain. I miss the old summer days when we would see towering cumulus and hear thunder (and get rain).

Hell, I’d like to just see a cloud.


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[BrokenGlass]

Dear god, I reached 107°F today

My weather station hit 112.


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[wxman57]

I was just out in the back yard, enjoying the nice weather - and it hit me. Have any of you noticed it's been unusually hot lately? I have it figured out. We're living in a Twilight Zone episode called "The Midnight Sun". Earth's orbit changes and it's getting very close to the sun. Temperatures are topping 120 and it never cools down. Water is scarce, and people are going crazy from the heat. A woman can't take it any more. It's 120 degrees at midnight and the sun is still blazing. Electricity is going off, and water is on only an hour a day.

Scene changes to an outdoor shot of the apartment. It's -10F outside and everyone is freezing. The Earth was cast away from the sun. Everything is actually cold, not hot. I'm sure we'll all wake up soon and we're actually in a deep freeze like February 2021.

Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun
Season 3 Episode 10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Sun_(The_Twilight_Zone)

[dpep4]

Hopefully a sign of things to come, rather than an anomaly, but the highs at FW Meacham and DFW Air came in 3 degrees below predicted. Not that I can feel a difference between 106 or 109, but electricity usage might.

[bubba hotep]

12Z Euro with a significant cool down for the Midwest including Texas days 7-10:

https://i.postimg.cc/ZYd2pZb2/ec-fast-T850a-us-fh144-240.gif

Remember when the Euro had a tropical storm bringing rain well inland to the parched parts of Texas? Fun times.

[rwfromkansas]

I only got to 108 today. 112 yesterday. I will take it.

Not buying the Euro cooldown but I hope it happens.

Can’t take much longer of this. Even plants in front beds are shriveling up.

[tajmahal]

Raw GFS high temperature forecast for Austin Camp Mabry on Saturday, 8/26: 114°. All–time record is 112°.

[bubba hotep]

Ugh

 https://twitter.com/Fox4Weather/status/1693054276136787978

[Iceresistance]

Ugh

https://twitter.com/Fox4Weather/status/1693054276136787978?s=20

I may have some relief this weekend though, but the 104s and 105s are going to be there before then, we must get past this week.

[Tireman4]

Fun fact. Average high at Bush Intercontinental, 102.6. Yea!

[Brent]

My car AC decided to stop working today with a heat index of 114. Shoot me now

[Iceresistance]

My car AC decided to stop working today with a heat index of 114. Shoot me now

Well, this is the time of the year when ACs are going to explode to this heatwave.

And it's only day 1 of 5-6 days.

[Tireman4]

[quote="wxman57"]I was just out in the back yard, enjoying the nice weather - and it hit me. Have any of you noticed it's been unusually hot lately? I have it figured out. We're living in a Twilight Zone episode called "The Midnight Sun". Earth's orbit changes and it's getting very close to the sun. Temperatures are topping 120 and it never cools down. Water is scarce, and people are going crazy from the heat. A woman can't take it any more. It's 120 degrees at midnight and the sun is still blazing. Electricity is going off, and water is on only an hour a day.

Scene changes to an outdoor shot of the apartment. It's -10F outside and everyone is freezing. The Earth was cast away from the sun. Everything is actually cold, not hot. I'm sure we'll all wake up soon and we're actually in a deep freeze like February 2021.

Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun
Season 3 Episode 10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Sun_(The_Twilight_Zone)[/quote


Umm, Sir are you OK? Did you ride too far and the heat got to you?

[ThunderSleetDreams]

Summer is by far the worst season and it’s not close.

I hope we have a rainy/icy/snowy Winter that is, on average, 15-20 degrees below normal.