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Is it ever going to rain in Houston again?

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:40 pm
by JenBayles
Looks like yet another system fizzles out and we're back to maybe 20% for tomorrow night - if we're lucky. It's killin me...
:wall:

Re: Is it ever going to rain in Houston again?

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:43 pm
by vbhoutex
JenBayles wrote:Looks like yet another system fizzles out and we're back to maybe 20% for tomorrow night - if we're lucky. It's killin me...
:wall:


I'm sorry to hear the lack of rain is causing you so much physical agony. It is only killing my grass and flowers. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: And my water bill!!! :grr: :grr: :grr:

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:46 pm
by JenBayles
Don't I know it about the water bill! Sheesh! I just really enjoy the spring storm season, and so far there just hasn't been one. I'm over this "nice, wonderful, cook, dry, sunny" weather. Phooey!
:lol:

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:00 pm
by CaptinCrunch
The Dallas/Fort Worth 7 Day Forecast!

This Afternoon: A 30 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high around 63. Northeast wind around 10 mph.

Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 50. East northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Wednesday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Cloudy, with a high near 60. East southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Wednesday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low near 51. Southeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Thursday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high around 72. Southeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. South southeast wind between 10 and 20 mph.

Friday: Partly cloudy, with a high around 80. South southwest wind around 15 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63. South southwest wind around 15 mph.

Saturday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 82. South southwest wind between 15 and 20 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low near 63.

Sunday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 79.

Sunday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 82.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:42 pm
by PTrackerLA
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low near 50. Northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Wednesday: A 10 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 71. Northeast wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. Northeast wind around 5 mph.

Thursday: Partly cloudy, with a high around 77. East wind around 5 mph.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. Calm wind.

Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high around 82. Southeast wind around 5 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low near 60. South wind around 5 mph.

Saturday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 82. South wind between 5 and 10 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 64. South wind around 10 mph.

Sunday: Partly cloudy, with a high around 83.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 64.

Monday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 84.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low near 66.

Tuesday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 86.

:eek: Only a 10% on 1 out of the next 7 days :roll: . Back to the watering & water bill :grrr: !

On a side note though, I don't mind it being dry since the temps have been so nice. It honestly hasn't felt like "summer" (hot, humid, hazy) around here yet this year, and that's perfectly fine with me :D .

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:51 pm
by Yankeegirl
I think we might get something... my leg is killing me, its aching soooo bad... Ususally does that when we get some rain...

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:30 pm
by KatDaddy
Just wait until the tide turns. Its been a very different spring with record cold, limited severe weather and a dry in the Southern Plains.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 10:27 pm
by vbhoutex
KatDaddy wrote:Just wait until the tide turns. Its been a very different spring with record cold, limited severe weather and a dry in the Southern Plains.


That is my worry, KD!! Usually when we have weather like we have been for an extended period, especially if it has been hot, which it hasn't been yet thankfully, we get some sort of dousing, usually by a tropcial system. Not saying we will get a tropical system anytime soon because there is nothing to indicate we will, but I figure we'll have some sort of dousing/flooding event soon enough.

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:55 am
by BayouVenteux
It's interesting (but irritating if you're on elevated "rainwatch" and relying too much on the sprinklers) how the consecutive systems that have brought frontal passages to the Gulf Coast this spring have repeatedly tended to suddenly ramp up the precip amounts once they've passed 90 degrees W. While we in central and southeast Louisiana aren't experiencing the lack of rainfall to the degree that locations in southeast and especially south Texas are, our totals pale in comparison to our neighbors east in south Mississippi, Alabama, and especially the NW Florida panhandle, where flooding has been a big problem this spring. If you look on the map below, you can see that the area of heaviest moisture is localized to an area roughly 100-150 miles in diameter.
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Certainly makes one wonder what this all portends for the months ahead. Hopefully not a repeat of last summer in terms of the lack of precipitation along the west central and western Gulf Coast (LA, TX) and the now infamous general tropical storm track pattern.

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 8:26 am
by vbhoutex
Woohoo!!!! Rain!!!! We got 0.04" overnight!!!! I now know what a damp street looks like!!!! :eek:

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 8:40 am
by gboudx
We finally got some decent rain up here in DFW. I'll need to check my rain gauge when I get home. Hopefully this is enough to wash the pollen out of the air.

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:52 pm
by cctxhurricanewatcher
Nothing here in Corpus. I should know when our local weather guys hype up the rain, it will not come.

It's getting real dry, folks!

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 10:12 am
by JenBayles
Whoo hooo! Calling for 30% on Sunday. Anyone wanna bet it fizzles?

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 10:53 am
by vbhoutex
JenBayles wrote:Whoo hooo! Calling for 30% on Sunday. Anyone wanna bet it fizzles?


If the capping isn't too strong we will have a good chance of rain on sunday, but we know how the cap has been in the past-NOT OOUR FRIEND!!!

Anyway, I forgot and left the water running all last night so half of my yard is watered for the rest of the month!!!! :eek: :lol:

Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:12 am
by JenBayles
LOL David! Yeah, that stinking CAP! :grrr:

I'm not going to envy you the water bill at the end of the month. Ouch!

Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 5:44 pm
by Skywatch_NC
For awhile there it seemed like se TX was getting rain daily and TOO much of that good kinda thing...now hardly at all...feast or famine time! :eek:

Wish I could have shared the 1.10" that fell in my gauge yesterday from a Nor'easter. :wink:

Eric

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:09 pm
by GalvestonDuck
*slaps Jen silly* :lol:

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:42 pm
by vbhoutex
GalvestonDuck wrote:*slaps Jen silly* :lol:


*vb joins in!*

Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 11:08 pm
by Brett Adair
Looks to me like there was plenty in the way of precip there today with the MCS. Looks like 3+ inches around that area.

Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 6:37 am
by vbhoutex
Widespread 1"-3" amounts all over the area. Lots of tree damage and a few buildings damaged due to high winds associated with the storms. We actually had 3 rounds of storms yesterday with each one increasingly strong.