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#181 Postby gboudx » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:34 am

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gboudx wrote:Guess what? It rained out here in Rockwall this evening. We had a really nice 20-25 min shower. We thought the world was ending at first. ;)


:cry: I have only had about 4" of rain since May first at the house, everytime rain does pop up it always missed may area by a few miles. We get the cool air flow, lightening, and gusty winds but NO RAIN!!! :cry:


That sounds like exactly what is happening here in Allen. After a while you start to take it personal that everybody else is getting rain but you. :(


The rain yesterday in Rockwall formed along the outflow boundary heading south from storms along the Red River. We noticed the wind picking up and then soon after it started raining. I guess the right ingredients came together at the right time. The shower didn't move and basically formed and dissipated right over us. I hope you guys get in on some rain as well.
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#182 Postby Scott Patterson » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:36 am

I have only had about 4" of rain since May first at the house


That would be considered pretty wet around here (4" in three months).

We've had 6.02 inches so far this year, and with a fairly wet winter and very dry spring. So far August has had 1.11 inches and has been the wettest month so far this year. Spring rains never came.
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#183 Postby CaptinCrunch » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:14 am

...DROUGHT INFORMATION STATEMENT FOR NORTH TEXAS...

HISTORIC DROUGHT CONDITIONS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. BELOW
NORMAL PRECIPITATION HAS BEEN THE RULE THIS SPRING AND SUMMER...
COMPOUNDING DEFICITS THAT HAVE BEEN ONGOING SINCE EARLY 2005.

WITH PERSISTENT HEAT...RESERVOIRS HAVE CONTINUED TO FALL. THE
COMBINATION OF EVAPORATION AND TYPICALLY HIGH SUMMERTIME WATER USAGE
HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL ON AREA LAKES...DIMINISHING ALREADY CONSIDERABLY
LOW LEVELS.

THE U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR CONTINUES TO EXPAND ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THE
AREA OF EXCEPTIONAL DROUGHT (D4)...THE MOST INTENSE CATEGORY
RESERVED FOR 50-YEAR EVENTS. FITTINGLY...THE CURRENT DROUGHT IS THE
MOST SEVERE SINCE THE BENCHMARK MULTI-YEAR DROUGHT OF THE 1950S...
WHICH ENDED ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO.



Gary Woodall of the NWS FTW office said it would take a tropical depression to move into NTX and park itself for about 2 weeks to ease the severe drought we are in.

Come on EL NINO..........
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#184 Postby bob rulz » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:11 pm

Scott Patterson wrote:
I have only had about 4" of rain since May first at the house


That would be considered pretty wet around here (4" in three months).

We've had 6.02 inches so far this year, and with a fairly wet winter and very dry spring. So far August has had 1.11 inches and has been the wettest month so far this year. Spring rains never came.


I guess we sucked it all up so that it couldn't get to you.

Sorry Scott. :lol: We had a very wet spring until the end of April.
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#185 Postby bob rulz » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:01 am

Damn.

We got to 98 degrees today, one away from our record high! So close!

However, we did get a record high minimum of 74 degrees (previous record was 70, I believe).
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#186 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:39 am

We got to 103 yesterday.
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#187 Postby gboudx » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:20 am

Two days in a row with rain. I can't remember the last time that happened. I hope today makes 3.

txtwister, you get any rain up in Allen? Looked like it was near you on the radar yesterday evening.
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#188 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:07 am

I don't know about Allen, TX, but my area managed to get a trace of rain yesterday.
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#189 Postby CaptinCrunch » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:17 am

.It rained on me out by TCU yesterday but once again it did not spit a drop at the house :cry: . Had to water the front lawn again yesterday evening :cry:
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#190 Postby Jim Cantore » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:20 pm

90 today and yesterday.

EDIT 3:42PM: Make that 91 today.
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#191 Postby Shoshana » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:12 pm

No rain here. Officially 102 I think but I saw 104 here.
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#192 Postby TexasStooge » Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:29 pm

Finally! Irving, TX has got some soaking rain this evening!

More to come in the next 15-30 minutes.
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#193 Postby Shoshana » Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:15 pm

As of today, Austin just has recorded the hottest August on record. Officially, 19 days of 100 or more in August - the days that weren't 100 ... were close.

3 @99F 1 @ 97F

And those 3 99 days? Were 100+ at our house...
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#194 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:12 am

The DFW area has reached its 39th day of 100*F and above yesterday.
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#195 Postby txtwister » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:05 am

gboudx wrote:Two days in a row with rain. I can't remember the last time that happened. I hope today makes 3.

txtwister, you get any rain up in Allen? Looked like it was near you on the radar yesterday evening.


On Tuesday evening we had about 3 minutes of rain. We all went outdoors to look at it. It is such a treat after all this time, even though it was short lived. It did not even register on my rain gauge. Plano, which is just south of us got hammered. Watching the radar was kind of funny. There would be these huge areas of precipitation that would go through the Frisco area and then angle more southeast towards Plano and Allen would just get the outer edge of that rain. Yesterday we had no rain although it looked kinda like it would.

I am just keeping my fingers and toes crossed that this El Nino does develop! :P
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#196 Postby Portastorm » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:56 am

Speaking for Austin and our ability to get any rain this week while it surrounded us ... and in the words of Charlie Brown on Halloween night:

I got a rock! :cry:
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#197 Postby gboudx » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:29 am

Yesterday broke Rockwall's streak of 2 consecutive days of rain. :)

But as TexasStooge noted, the 100 degree streak lives, and will probably continue into the weekend. There's some hope that a coolish front will make it through early next week which may stop the streak. It has to end at some point, right? :thinking:
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#198 Postby Portastorm » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:37 pm

Another day, another 100-degree-plus high temperature.

I know we hit at least 101 today here in Austin. Ugh .... :onfire:
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#199 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:54 pm

It's officil, the DFW area las tied the record high of 104 set back in 1899, 1924, and 1952.

Temp Log

5:00AM: 83°F
6:00AM: 82°F
7:00AM: 82°F
8:00AM: 82°F
9:00AM: 85°F
10:00AM: 87°F
11:00AM: 91°F
Noon: 94°F
1:00PM: 98°F
2:00PM: 102°F
3:00PM: 104°F
Now: >>>103°F<<<
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#200 Postby AussieMark » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:16 pm

Annual 100 degree days

[01] 69 - 1980
[02] 56 - 1998
[03] 52 - 1954
[04] 48 - 1956
[05] 46 - 2000
[06] 44 - 1952
[07] 40 - 2006
[07] 40 - 1951
[09] 38 - 1963
[10] 36 - 1978


most consecutive 100 degree days

[01] 42 - June 23 - August 3, 1980
[02] 29 - July 6 - August 3, 1998
[03] 25 - August 2 - August 26, 1952
[04] 24 - July 28 - August 20, 1999
[05] 20 - July 9 - July 28, 1954
[06] 18 - July 2 - July 19, 1978
[07] 17 - August 8 - August 24, 2006
[07] 17 - August 2 - August 18, 1956
[09] 14 - August 9 - August 22, 1993
[10] 13 - August 24 - September 5, 2000
[10] 13 - August 25 - September 6, 1951
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