C/S TX Weather: Seasonal with some rains

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Good new Portastorm...
FLOOD ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
651 AM CDT THU MAR 12 2009

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651 AM CDT THU MAR 12 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...
NORTHERN BASTROP COUNTY...
LEE COUNTY...
TRAVIS COUNTY...
WILLIAMSON COUNTY...

* UNTIL 845 AM CDT.

* AT 644 AM CDT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING AT RATES
APPROACHING AN INCH AN HOUR. RAINFALL FROM YESTERDAY AND OVERNIGHT
HAS BEGUN TO SATURATE THE SOIL AND AREA CREEKS ARE RESPONDING.
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN MORE RUNOFF.

IT IS HARD TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING AT NIGHT. IF FLOOD
WATERS RISE ACT QUICKLY. DO NOT STAY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

Nice!

Nothing here in the Coastal Bend.

[Portastorm]

Yep guys, it's been great. We've seen anywhere from 2 1/2 inches to about 5 inches in the general Austin metro area and nearby surroundings! We really needed this stuff and could use another 2-3 days of this.

Of course, it's projected to clear out and warm up this next week for South by Southwest music festival. Everyone comes down here, experiences the great mid March weather, and decides they want to move down to Austin! More cars, more traffic ... growl, growl, snarl, snarl ... geez I'm sounding like an old-timer now!

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Yep guys, it's been great. We've seen anywhere from 2 1/2 inches to about 5 inches in the general Austin metro area and nearby surroundings! We really needed this stuff and could use another 2-3 days of this.

Of course, it's projected to clear out and warm up this next week for South by Southwest music festival. Everyone comes down here, experiences the great mid March weather, and decides they want to move down to Austin! More cars, more traffic ... growl, growl, snarl, snarl ... geez I'm sounding like an old-timer now!

I've receieved about .01 of an inch of drizzle and a dirty car. That's all.

Bust for us south of Victoria.

[Dionne]

6:36 PM CST......this rain event your speaking about is now over us......zip 39059. We're already experiencing flooding. And from radar it looks like more coming .........

But ya know what....I cannot afford flood insurance and I cannot afford to move. So let the waters rise.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

We got enough here in my part of Corpus to wet down the dust for a day.

[Shoshana]

We got a total of 2.5" of rain at our house. It was enough to kickstart the grass (and weeds) growing and the yard now looks green. I've heard that the rain popped out some blueblonnets - I've only seen a few tho.

We're still in an Exceptional drought though.

[Shoshana]

Hail! We are getting pea sized hail... my friends just north of us have ping pong ball size hail!

[Portastorm]

No hail down here in SW Austin but we did see about .30 inches of rain in less than an hour and a lot of wind. Looks like you got the worst of it up north! Hey, I'll take the rain any day.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Nothing down here but more dust on my truck..

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Yahoo!!!

We just had a fine minute down poor and very dark cloud go over us!!! First time I've seen one of them since August!

It's all gone. At least we won't have to water down the infield for my son's baseball game in a couple of hours.

[Portastorm]

Yahoo!!!

We just had a fine minute down poor and very dark cloud go over us!!! First time I've seen one of them since August!

It's all gone. At least we won't have to water down the infield for my son's baseball game in a couple of hours.

Hate to rub it in, amigo, but we received another .20 inches of rain today in some storms that ran across around lunchtime.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Back to 90 degrees and Red Flag warnings.....

On Saturday it's supposed to be in the upper 60's with Red Flag Warnings.

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Yahoo!!!

We just had a fine minute down poor and very dark cloud go over us!!! First time I've seen one of them since August!

It's all gone. At least we won't have to water down the infield for my son's baseball game in a couple of hours.

Hate to rub it in, amigo, but we received another .20 inches of rain today in some storms that ran across around lunchtime.

Thanks. I hope you went home and rode your bicycle in the puddles.

[Bunkertor]

Uhm, a winterstorm in OK and TX in the middle of March is quite uncommon, isn´t it ?

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

Uhm, a winterstorm in OK and TX in the middle of March is quite uncommon, isn´t it ?

Actually it's not. They've been know to have winter storms in April in that part of Texas and Oklahoma. It's the way those storm systems come of the Colorado Rockies and they usually bring air that is cold enough with them to make it snow.

[Bunkertor]

^OK, Rockies are not that far away, but i thought you guys were wearing swimming trunks yet in April

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

^OK, Rockies are not that far away, but i thought you guys were wearing swimming trunks yet in April

We are in south Texas. 93 right now in Corpus, 101 in McAllen.

[Bunkertor]

Thats mean

[Shoshana]

What's mean ???

South Texas is 500 miles away from the TX/OK border. 700+ miles from Amarillo TX. Plus, the cold front hadn't gotten there yet.

It was 84 here in Austin earlier, it's 48F now, heading for 38....

[cctxhurricanewatcher]

60% chance of rain for Easter Sunday!!!

That's the first time in months I've seen anything more than a 60% chance!