2011 SE TX/SW LA Weather: Nice weather next several days

[vbhoutex]

Couldn't ask for more beautiful weather this weekend and here I sit feeling like crap with a bad cold!!

[BreinLa]

Is beautiful outside today, just got home from playing two softball games, actually I only helped coach bases today but it felt great, sorry you're feeling bad vb go sit outside for a bit may help you feel better

[Jagno]

You just can't buy weather this perfect. Unusual but perfect. We are still waiting on rain but it didn't stop me from redoing the landscaping in my front yard or the garden from a wonderful bounty of tomatoes.

[CajunMama]

It's so dry here. There's 2 separate grass fires (both reported withing 7 minutes of each other) within a mile of me...both on major roads so i figure it's people tossing their cigarette out of the window. IDIOTS!

[Jagno]

Grrrrr, it is so darn dry and with these terrible winds it's impossible to even water unless you really like the misting effect. I finally just laid the hose out and turned it wide open to flood the one and only oak tree that survived Rita, Ike and Gustav. My vegetable garden is all raised beds to that isn't too hard to keep watered. I'm spending every morning and evening trying to keep my orchard sufficiently watered with all of the baby figs, oranges, lemons and satsuma's they are producing. My lawn is what is suffering badly. My home backs up to woods and my biggest fear is someone catching the woods on fire. Even my large outdoor waterfall fountain started whistling loudly when it ran dry today and I just filled it up less than a week ago. Of course, I've noticed even the animals drinking from it so that doesn't help. "Were's da rain?"

[Stephanie]

Grrrrr, it is so darn dry and with these terrible winds it's impossible to even water unless you really like the misting effect. I finally just laid the hose out and turned it wide open to flood the one and only oak tree that survived Rita, Ike and Gustav. My vegetable garden is all raised beds to that isn't too hard to keep watered. I'm spending every morning and evening trying to keep my orchard sufficiently watered with all of the baby figs, oranges, lemons and satsuma's they are producing. My lawn is what is suffering badly. My home backs up to woods and my biggest fear is someone catching the woods on fire. Even my large outdoor waterfall fountain started whistling loudly when it ran dry today and I just filled it up less than a week ago. Of course, I've noticed even the animals drinking from it so that doesn't help. "Were's da rain?"

That oak tree deserves as much water as you can give it. Can a drip line help? I know that they are used in gardens. I hope that your orchard doesn't suffer too much either.

[vbhoutex]

Quick update on the drought in SE TX(at least at my house in Houston). I just reported the NON-RAIN we had in Houston last night to CocoRahs and went through my reports since February 1. Total from Feb 1 to date-1.7". That includes 0.33" so far this month, 0.15" last month, 0.79" in March, with the rest in Feb. Can you say desert he we come!! The yard is alive, and green in most areas but is suffering badly even with watering. I haven't sone any spring planting, even of sod(badly needed)because it is of no use to try besides one needs a jackhammer to dig anything.
edit: just went back to Jan. 1-4.61" for the year. We usually average 3"-4" per month.

[StormClouds63]

Here's a helpful web site:
http://drought.unl.edu/DM/DM_south.htm

[vbhoutex]

Here's a helpful web site:
http://drought.unl.edu/DM/DM_south.htm

Sweet!!! Our entire county is now in exceptional drought!!

[StormClouds63]

No relief in sight for SW Louisiana ... about 1/3 of Calcasieu Parish is now in the "exceptional" drought phase

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/images/rtimages ... ght/DM.png
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lch/?n=drought

Unfortunately, there appears to be only 1 remedy for the drought ... and I don't like the idea of June tropical systems in the WGOM.

[Shoshana]

Right now we are still able to water 2x a week. Last year we went down to 1x week. 1x week doesn't seem to help the yard - we just try to keep the trees and bushes alive. I'm already dreading 4th of July with all the idiots who insist on setting off bottle rockets!

[South Texas Storms]

we need rain so badly!! i am starting to think that our next decent chance of some very beneficial rain will come from the tropics this summer. the storm track is too far to our north unfortunately.

[Flyinman]

I am hoping the dry line will move far enough East to spark a few showers today. Not holding my breath too long though! Also, read the Sea Breeze may kick up next week. That would be nice to at least see something on the radar.

[vbhoutex]

We got a whopping 0.03" here in W Houston from the storms last night. It did disturb the dust on the cars.

[Flyinman]

The good thing is my Rain Away 2000 worked great last night . It deflected the cells to the North and South! Well there is always next year or the next or the next.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

How about we trade systems for a week? I'll gladly send the rain we're most likely going to get next week for your heat (offer is just for one week though). I'm not a huge fan of really high temps.

it'd prolly be a good rain too (yesterday a huge swath just below my location got between 2 to 7 inches of rain). Trust me us Northern drylander peeps have enough moisture for the next little while (in the last two years areas in this normally semi arid/arid province have had water covering vast sections of land all summer).

[Tireman4]

How about we trade systems for a week? I'll gladly send the rain we're most likely going to get next week for your heat (offer is just for one week though). I'm not a huge fan of really high temps.

You got it Miss Screamer...you can have this...LOL

I will take this today..

Current Conditions
63 °F
Observed at: Moose Jaw Airport
Date: 1:00 PM CST Thursday 26 May 2011
Condition:Cloudy
Pressure:29.80 inches
Tendency:falling
Visibility:15 miles

Temperature:63.0°F
Dewpoint:35.2°F
Humidity:35 %
Wind:SE 29 gust 34 mph


and you can have this:

Houston Intercontinental Airport
Lat: 29.97 Lon: -95.35 Elev: 95
Last Update on May 26, 1:53 pm CDT


'Fair'

94 °F
(34 °C) Humidity: 26 %
Wind Speed: N 12 G 18 MPH
Barometer: 29.91" (1012.7 mb)
Dewpoint: 54 °F (12 °C)
Heat Index: 92 °F (33 °C)
Visibility: 10.00 mi

[CajunMama]

It's a deal! I remember the summer days of late afternoon thunderstorms where the rain would cool everything off and the cloud cover was so welcomed. We haven't had those in years. I miss them.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

I edited my post above to add:

it'd prolly be a good rain too (yesterday a huge swath just below my location got between 2 to 7 inches of rain). Trust me us Northern drylander peeps have enough moisture for the next little while (in the last two years areas in this normally semi arid/arid province have had water covering vast sections of land all summer).


We need your heat (mind Tireman I said just a week now ;o) to get our crops growing and I'm sure your farmers/ranchers are in desperate straights as well (a lot of ours need land to dry up).

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Wishing you folks some cooler temps (without the nasty storms that seem to come when the two systems meet).