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  • Post-mortem: I hope people in ATX and immediate realize how freaking lucky we've been.  The severe prediction map was spot on!  The storms started blowing up just west of Austin, giving most of us

  • jimmyjazz
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    I'm struggling to reboot my meteorology expertise after 5 years of focusing on election law, virology, economics, international relations and military tactics.

  • Grade of D as in David
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    Hey mother fucker I wish every year was 2005.  

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A quick shower earlier today and then a .75 top off in the evening.  Lovely.

1.21" in 78652 today. Not bad for a less than 20% chance of rain.

City of Leander posted that they are going stage 4 restrictions, no irrigation what so ever for the next month
so no more rain would only make sense

 

36 minutes ago, TXLNGHRN10 said:

City of Leander posted that they are going stage 4 restrictions, no irrigation what so ever for the next month
so no more rain would only make sense

 

Yes but that's due to some water main issue... not related to the drought.  But yes, craptacular timing.

13 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Yes but that's due to some water main issue... not related to the drought.  But yes, craptacular timing.

It's terrible timing for sure, they should have figured out a way to delay the work for just one more month.

But, it's also nice to see them proactively doing maintenance on a still-functioning system, rather than waiting for things to completely break down, like other nearby municipalities I might mention...

 

Edit: Oh, and for CP water customers at least, it doesn't start until Sep 21 and lasts through Oct 4.  So the timing is bad, but could be worse, and the duration is manageable.

 

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Just now, utee94 said:

It's terrible timing for sure, they should have figured out a way to delay the work for just one more month.

But, it's also nice to see them proactively doing maintenance on a still-functioning system, rather than waiting for things to completely break down, like other nearby municipalities I might mention...

 

I lived in Houston when one of the water mains broke that supplied water to half the city.  You should have seen the run on bottled water at grocery stores.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/27/water-main-break-houston-what-you-need-know/

 

2 hours ago, texasdago said:

I lived in Houston when one of the water mains broke that supplied water to half the city.  You should have seen the run on bottled water at grocery stores.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/27/water-main-break-houston-what-you-need-know/

 

This hits close to home.

I lived in Austin when there was a glass raw material shortage. You should have seen the run on Topo Chico at HEB.

4 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

This hits close to home.

I lived in Austin when there was a glass raw material shortage. You should have seen the run on Topo Chico at HEB.

Some of us had to drink the HEB version... I still have flashbacks of the aftertaste.

Unrelated to Texas, but yikes anyway.  Ocean swells of 40+ feet inbound on the western Alaska coast ahead of this weekend's superstorm:

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2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Unrelated to Texas, but yikes anyway.  Ocean swells of 40+ feet inbound on the western Alaska coast ahead of this weekend's superstorm:

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Would be cool if they’re currently filming Deadliest Catch

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So we get two weeks of rain in August and then it turns into second summer? At least it's cooling off. The forecast continues to be 0% chance of rain.

Austin weather is the worst.

1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

So we get two weeks of rain in August and then it turns into second summer? At least it's cooling off. The forecast continues to be 0% chance of rain.

Austin weather is the worst.

We made it that way to keep the yankees and Californians away, but it hasn't worked.

Also, it's never going to rain again.

 

19 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Guilty clouds have got no moisture

Then South Austin's mom must be totally innocent.  

On 9/17/2022 at 6:30 PM, Grade of D as in David said:

Just started raining pretty hard in the domain 

That would be cool if your post wasn't a week and a half old.

  • 2 weeks later...
34 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Thread slipped to the second page.  It's never going to rain again is it?

Nope

47 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Thread slipped to the second page.  It's never going to rain again is it?

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13 minutes ago, Nonbryan said:

Nope

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Rain and drizzle in Amarillo the past 3 days, temp is 44 feels like 40. This is the best time of the year by far.

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43 minutes ago, RMac5 said:

Rain and drizzle in Amarillo the past 3 days, temp is 44 feels like 40. This is the best time of the year by far.

Is any time really the best time in Amarillo?

Oh absolutely, really the only thing we are missing is tent folks and their trash.

1 hour ago, RMac5 said:

Oh absolutely, really the only thing we are missing is tent folks and their trash.

Hey now. South Austin's mom provides plenty of comfort to the homeless. It seems like yours has lots of work on her hands too.

Instead of Fighting 'Tent City,' Amarillo Decides to House Its Homeless

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Comal flow down to 91 cfs. Last year on this day was 242 cfs (normal range).

The swift water rescue training is going to have to change its name. The firemen and policemen with their vests   Will have to scootch their way down the chute. 
 

Don’t care who to pray or plead to, but O Comalita give us rain. Maybe the gods will listen if we quit watering our lawns every two days. 

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On 10/8/2022 at 8:04 AM, South Austin said:

Is any time really the best time in Amarillo?

um, morning?

Any chance that thing that formed in the Gulf brings us anything?

20 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Any chance that thing that formed in the Gulf brings us anything?

I think you already know the answer to that...

What is... You'll get nothing and like it, Alex?

the entire Western US: what is this rain thing that they speak of???????

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/11/rain-increasing-climate-change-us/

A paper published Tuesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds that it’s raining harder in most of the United States. The study, written by researchers at Northwestern University, tied the results to climate change and to warmer air’s ability to hold more water.

The findings echo the fundamental laws of physics and thermodynamics, as well as the evidence from decades of research, and highlight the real-time effect that humans are having on the weather and climate.

The research offers confirmation of what atmospheric scientists have been warning of for years: a warmer world is, on balance, a wetter world. And as global temperatures continue to rise, an uptick in precipitation extremes is expected.

The study reports “consistent shifts from lower to higher daily precipitation intensities, particularly in the central and eastern United States.” The authors compared rainfall over two periods — 1951 to 1980 and 1991 to 2020 — to see how patterns evolved.

“When it’s raining, it’s raining more,” said Ryan Harp, the author lead author on the study, in an interview. “But what we also did was … we were able to verify some of the expectations we had based on modeling studies.”

Take your climate change bullshit to the Cloak Room!  

also, can Austin have some this "hard rain", please?  

Holy shit, wet stuff coming from the sky in 78751.  Not a ton, but more than I've seen in 30 days.

Brief down pour 78626...little cloud built up right over the house...raining with sun shining

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7 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Take your climate change bullshit to the Cloak Room!  

also, can Austin have some this "hard rain", please?  

It’s not politics, it’s gas law.

Well I specialized in bird gas law so there.  Rained a tad on my way home. Big drops.  Lasted about 60 seconds.  But gives me hope.  Not for our planet, that’s fucked.  But my lawn 

I thought it was never going to rain again. Got wet at 183/290. Can see more out by Webberville (past my house) and there is light rain as I approach 130.

Also got a pic of a double rainbow to show the kids. 7eccf8277c9c30c316a7c1712b31e08d.jpg

I got some rain today!

I was in Joshua Tree National Park, but it was still nice.

 

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Kiss of death. (Next Wednesday.)

 

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There is a 100% chance of that not happening.

10 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

Kiss of death. (Next Wednesday.)

 

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Big girl on KXAN is already walking this back this morning    

Sweet, then we're still on pace for the driest October in a century.  Totes normal! 

I love it when they show 2-3 models and one of them is waaaaay off but people like to remember that one.  Like spaghetti models...  IAN IS GOING TO HIT WACO!!!!!

23 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I love it when they show 2-3 models and one of them is waaaaay off but people like to remember that one.  Like spaghetti models...  IAN IS GOING TO HIT WACO!!!!!

I just let my daughter draw the rain coming out our way right on the TV with her crayola markers.  Makes her feel important.  hasn't worked in almost 40 days though sweetheart!  Current projections has rain hitting right as RHCP hit the stage Sunday night.  Perfect.  

Even my weeds are burning up and I'm losing tree limbs left and right.  And not because it's Autumn.

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Got almost 1.5” in… 20 minutes this morning ?  Just dumped on our area. 

25 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

Got almost 1.5” in… 20 minutes this morning ?  Just dumped on our area. 

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