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

[vbhoutex]

SS I haven't heard of any efforts like those described in your post. I have heard about farmers selling all or most of their herds since there is no available forage and most of the tanks have dried up long ago. As you well know there is billions and billions of dollars of damage the agriculture in TX and for that matter elsewhere, but especially here.
We own a farm in KS that is leased out and we got word the other day that a claim has been made against the insurance, which means one of two things-either they lost the crop to severe weather(hail and/or wind)or they lost it due to no water. We fortunately do not count on that income for our livelihood, but it is nice to get an extra bonus once or twice a year.
Currently keeping the triple digit run alive and well with 101.1f so far today at the house and 101f at the weatherbug site and currently 100f officially at the airport. Please send some and some . I promise to be a
edit to update-Official was 102f and at the house we made 101.5f.
Sadly it appears we will probably go through the entire month of August with triple digit highs and no rain.

[Flyinman]

The one thing I have note heard mentioned is the fact that we will most likely break our record of most 100 degree plus days because of August's temps. We only had a few ere or there before August and now cannot seem to break the cylce. Every month has been historic, hence the historic drough. Just for the record, my neighbor said they finaly hit some soft ground at the 7' to 8' mark!

[Shoshana]

Actually we are under the same restrictions. I am guessing they hope the restrictions will be lifted by the time the pool is completed. Otherwise they will have a fancy hole in the ground!

Nah if they can't fill it using city water they can pro'bly buy bulk water.

[South Texas Storms]

Hey guys I wrote my first weather article for examiner.com (similar to what Larry Cosgrove writes) but for the College Station area. Check it out!

http://www.examiner.com/weather-in-hous ... -next-week

[Ptarmigan]

When is this Cockroach Ridge going to go away for good?

Droughts and heat waves are the costliest and deadliest weather disaster for America. Two of the most costliest disasters in America since 1980 were droughts and heat waves.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/billionz.html

Dying Alone
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chic ... 213in.html

Heat Wave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_wave

[Tireman4]

All is right with the Houston Area. The streak continues...

AFDHGX

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
335 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2011

...AND THE STREAK CONTINUES...

.DISCUSSION...
EVEN WITH TCU FROM THE SEA BREEZE IN THE AREA...KIAH HAS REACHED
101 AT 3PM FOR THE MAX TEMP SO FAR. THIS TIES THE ALL TIME 1980
MARK OF 32 DAYS OF MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES AT OR ABOVE 100 DEGREES.
IT ALSO MEANS THAT EVERY DAY SO FAR IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST KIAH
HAS HAD A MAX TEMP OF 100 DEGREES OR MORE. A FEW ISO TSRA HAVE
DEVELOPED ALONG THE SEA BREEZE FROM HOBBY AIRPORT TO WHARTON.
STORMS WILL PROBABLY PULSE UP AND DOWN MUCH LIKE YESTERDAY.
CURRENT FORECAST HAS 20 POPS FOR ISO ACTIVITY WHICH LOOKS ON
TRACK. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THE NE IS WORKING INTO THE NORTHERN
COUNTIES OF SE TX. HAVE MAINTAINED 20 POPS FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT
ALONG THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=1

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Ptarmigan you have a link to heat wave above and it also talks about humidity...what is the highest humidex reading Texas has recorded this summer?


Tireman you lie through your keyboard re all's right!

[Tireman4]

Ptarmigan you have a link to heat wave above and it also talks about humidity...what is the highest humidex reading Texas has recorded this summer?


Tireman you lie through your keyboard re all's right!

Sarcasm is one of my strengths...LOL. This is beyond pitiful. One pro met on another board stated he looked at the ensembles and it is showing this lasting past September 8. That, of course, is subject to change.

[Tireman4]

Aug 21, 2011
Houston ties record for most 100-degree days in a single year
Coming into today Houston needed one more 100-degree day to tie a record set in 1980 for most such days in a single year.

Well, to no one’s surprise, for the 21st day in a row, the mercury did hit 100 this afternoon at Bush Intercontinental Airport.

With 32 days reaching the century mark this year, therefore, the year 2011 has tied 1980 for the most 100-degree days in a calendar year. Among area cities, Huntsville has already beaten its annual record, according to the National Weather Service.


(National Weather Service)

If you can believe it, Houston’s string of 100-degree days may continue for another five to seven days before snapping. I know, it’s crazy.

As always, I’ll have full details on the week ahead’s forecast in my Weekly Weather, updated every Monday morning.

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Keep in mind high humidity re your tears aren't good for those items that will come crashing down on your head once cold comes down and you are doing that jig (not today as we are currently 90F and will be warmer tomorrow or does that mean a wee bit cooler air will come down there since you are heating us up??????)

[Ptarmigan]

Ptarmigan you have a link to heat wave above and it also talks about humidity...what is the highest humidex reading Texas has recorded this summer?


Tireman you lie through your keyboard re all's right!

Houston can see humidity at 100%, but that is in the night time to morning hours. Humidity drops in the day time to around 50%.

[Flyinman]

Well at least today we had some dark clouds around. As I have said this entire summmer, IF this ridge would break I am fairy confident we would see some decent rain. The few days it has moved far enough away, several areas to the east have received 3"-5" of rain. I am going to go out on a limb here and say we will see precipitation by the end of the year ! With our luck we will have 10" of snow in December which will do is no good except kill whatever survived the drought

[Ptarmigan]

We don't need a hurricane to break the drought. We could use a warm core low pressure or slow moving front or a weak, but large tropical storm (Frances of 1998) to put a dent on the drought. If we had a December 1991, October 1994, or July 2002 event today, the drought would be ending.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

Ptarmigan : "Houston can see humidity at 100%, but that is in the night time to morning hours. Humidity drops in the day time to around 50%."



yuck!

A few years ago we hit 120F (thermometer reading was in the 80's but with the dew point we hit 120F). I will never forget that summer from hell.

[Tireman4]

But large tropical storm (Frances of 1998) to put a dent on the drought.

I remember that one. Dadgum, it was strong. I was living in Santa Fe at the time and man oh man...

[Turtle]

So far this month we have 17 days over 105. That's pretty rare since here in East Texas, I could not find a single day that reached 105 in the past 5 years (via NWS's Preliminary Monthly Climate Data). Talk about insane heat!

[vbhoutex]

Ptarmigan you have a link to heat wave above and it also talks about humidity...what is the highest humidex reading Texas has recorded this summer?


Tireman you lie through your keyboard re all's right!

I don't know about the highest heat index(humidex) we have seen in TX this summer. Not even positive about the highest here in Houston so far, but I think I remember a 112f in the metro area recently. We've been running between 105f and 110f for most of the month, thus our continuing heat advisories. I do remember a 135f heat index we had in 2000 which was in the same week(possibly the same day)that we hit our all time official high of 109f(112f at my house).
As for today the official was 103f, with 102f at the Weatherbug site and 101.7f here at the house.
Tireman you may have had some dark clouds around, but we saw no dark clouds in W Houston. It was cloudier than it has been, but definitely no dark or wet ones. Here at the house this is 26 days in a row without a drop of rain.

[Tireman4]

Tireman you may have had some dark clouds around, but we saw no dark clouds in W Houston. It was cloudier than it has been, but definitely no dark or wet ones. Here at the house this is 26 days in a row without a drop of rain. [/quote]


It was sunny most of the days. Some clouds rolled by, but nothing big.

[SaskatchewanScreamer]

When is this Cockroach Ridge going to go away for good?

Droughts and heat waves are the costliest and deadliest weather disaster for America. Two of the most costliest disasters in America since 1980 were droughts and heat waves.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/reports/billionz.html

Dying Alone
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chic ... 213in.html

Heat Wave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_wave

It's a shame nowadays is so far removed from the past ( & I know in big cities life is different from here)...when we hit the high humidity warnings were on the radio to check on one's elderly/sick neighbours. That very day a newspaper girl came to our house saying the old fellow a few houses up hadn't picked up his mail, so we went up there and when he didn't answer the door we went in....the door wasn't locked (break-ins are relatively rare here). Turns out he wasn't home (he had gone to the hospital) so all was well (he wasn't that sick). Sadly I'd never do that in a bigger city (esp. in the U.S. where people have handguns under their bed) or in the country (here, in my province, shotguns are common out there). We did call out multiple times to warn him we were in his house (and why we had come in).

[Tireman4]

AFDHGX

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
343 AM CDT MON AUG 22 2011

.DISCUSSION...
UPPER RIDGE CURRENTLY CENTERED OVER TX SHOULD RETROGRADE A BIT TO
THE NW IN THE COMING DAYS...BUT REMAINS STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP
TEMPS NEAR THE CENTURY MARK THRU MOST OF THE WEEK. HOUSTON METRO
AREA CURRENTLY TIED FOR THE RECORD NUMBER OF 100 DEGREE DAYS IN A
YEAR (32 PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1980). NOT MUCH DOUBT IN MY MIND WE`LL
BREAK THAT THIS WEEK, QUITE POSSIBLY TODAY. THAT BEING SAID IT WOULDN`T
SURPRISE ME IF WE SAW TEMPS PEAKING IN THE UPPER 90S FROM TIME-TO-TIME
SHOULD THE SEABREEZE PUSH THRU AN HOUR OR TWO EARLIER THAN IT HAS
THE PAST FEW DAYS. SE TX SHOULD ALSO SEE SOME SLIGHTLY BETTER
CHANCES OF LATE AFTN/EVNG STORMS EACH DAY WITH EITHER DISTURBANCES
EMBEDDED IN THE N/NE FLOW ALOFT OR THE SEABREEZE BEING THE PRIMARY
TRIGGERS. TEMPS COULD CLIMB EVEN HIGHER LATER IN THE WEEK SHOULD
OFFSHORE WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH IRENE`S CIRCULATION EVENTUALLY MAKE
THEIR WAY THIS FAR WEST.

MEDIUM RANGE GUESSES SHOW THE UPPER RIDGE MOVING EVEN FURTHER WEST
LATER IN THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK WHICH SHOULD ALLOW TEMPS
TO EVENTUALLY MODERATE. ECMWF PATTERN ACTUALLY SUPPORTS A FRONTAL
BOUNDARY TO PUSH ALL THE WAY INTO CNTL TX. 47

http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=1

The last sentence gives me hope....