September 9, 20223 yr 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
September 9, 20223 yr 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.
September 9, 20223 yr 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. Edited September 9, 20223 yr by utee94
September 9, 20223 yr 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/
September 9, 20223 yr 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.
September 9, 20223 yr 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.
September 16, 20223 yr Unrelated to Texas, but yikes anyway. Ocean swells of 40+ feet inbound on the western Alaska coast ahead of this weekend's superstorm:
September 16, 20223 yr 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: Would be cool if they’re currently filming Deadliest Catch
September 16, 20223 yr 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: https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/189-random-thoughts-that-dont-warrant-a-thread/page/110/#comments
September 26, 20223 yr 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.
September 26, 20223 yr 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.
September 26, 20223 yr 19 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said: Guilty clouds have got no moisture Then South Austin's mom must be totally innocent.
September 26, 20223 yr 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.
October 4, 20223 yr 34 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said: Thread slipped to the second page. It's never going to rain again is it? Nope
October 4, 20223 yr 47 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said: Thread slipped to the second page. It's never going to rain again is it? 13 minutes ago, Nonbryan said: Nope
October 8, 20223 yr 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.
October 8, 20223 yr Author 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?
October 8, 20223 yr Oh absolutely, really the only thing we are missing is tent folks and their trash.
October 8, 20223 yr 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.
October 11, 20223 yr 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.
October 11, 20223 yr On 10/8/2022 at 8:04 AM, South Austin said: Is any time really the best time in Amarillo? um, morning?
October 11, 20223 yr 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...
October 12, 20223 yr 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.”
October 12, 20223 yr Take your climate change bullshit to the Cloak Room! also, can Austin have some this "hard rain", please?
October 12, 20223 yr Holy shit, wet stuff coming from the sky in 78751. Not a ton, but more than I've seen in 30 days.
October 12, 20223 yr Brief down pour 78626...little cloud built up right over the house...raining with sun shining
October 12, 20223 yr 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.
October 12, 20223 yr 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
October 12, 20223 yr 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.
October 13, 20223 yr I got some rain today! I was in Joshua Tree National Park, but it was still nice.
October 13, 20223 yr 10 hours ago, Wally Pryor said: Kiss of death. (Next Wednesday.) Big girl on KXAN is already walking this back this morning
October 13, 20223 yr Sweet, then we're still on pace for the driest October in a century. Totes normal!
October 13, 20223 yr 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!!!!!
October 13, 20223 yr 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. Edited October 13, 20223 yr by YGIFS
October 13, 20223 yr 25 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said: Got almost 1.5” in… 20 minutes this morning ? Just dumped on our area.
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