I'm melting...

[Shelly]

103.3* in the shade and under an awning.

[bigzak25]

i always knew you were hot.

[ObiwanGinobili]

I'm sorry. but it's hard to appreciate that # while i sit in a tub full of ice in my a/c'd apartment.

soon as sweetpea wakes up i'm going back down to the pool.

[Jekka]

And that is why I love my all utilities included apartment. Leaving bottled water out keeps it cold enough - muahaha.

[pooh]

I'm going to go out, wash the car and perhaps go walking in a bit...with water of course.

[SpursWoman]

I believe we've reached Dante's 4th ring of Hell. We still have a bit to go... :(

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah, I hate to tell you guys but the weather is hear to stay. The only good thing I can say is that at least you're not in Del Rio.

[ZStomp]

Don't be acting surprised people!

[pooh]

Yeah and this is only July. Imagine what August and September will be like.

[Jimcs50]

Yeah and this is only July. Imagine what August and September will be like.



more of the same..not much hotter....what is the difference betw 99 and 101?

[ElMuerto]

This heat ain't shit...wait till some of you get down here.

[samikeyp]

i always knew you were hot.

and the closer you get, the hotter Shelly gets! :spin


South Texas has four seasons.

Kinda hot, hot, damn hot and Summer.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

i always knew you were hot.

:lol Smokin' from what I've heard!

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah and this is only July. Imagine what August and September will be like.
This is no indicator of what's going to happen in August or even the latter part of this month. I haven't looked at long range models, but this ridge has to break down eventually.

[pooh]

more of the same..not much hotter....what is the difference betw 99 and 101?

When it was 112 in Sept back in 2000. THAT was hot

[Shelly]

Ahem....anyway...(btw, Chopper, I gave up smoking a long time ago :spin)

I saw in the paper the other day that they aren't predicting any rain at all for this month.

[SWC Bonfire]

This is no indicator of what's going to happen in August or even the latter part of this month. I haven't looked at long range models, but this ridge has to break down eventually.

We are actually in a similar pattern in south Texas to that of 1998. Get ready for another "500" year flood...

[bigzak25]

it's not a big deal really, unless some of you are posting from a laptop at the park?

we are all inside, in a/c most likely. this is texas weather baby.

i like the sun. i wouldn't mind some rain, or some more clouds in the sky, but as long as it's not humid, i won't complain. :)

get your outside exercise in the morning or late night if you are smart. :smokin

[Shelly]

Yes...my walking posse and I went last night about 8:30pm and it made a big difference.

[MannyIsGod]

We are actually in a similar pattern in south Texas to that of 1998. Get ready for another "500" year flood...
If this pattern means anything, it means a really lessend chance of Tropical weather hitting Texas because everything gets moved torwards the middle Gulf states.

But well, thats about it. That, no rain, and HEAT.

[MannyIsGod]

When it was 112 in Sept back in 2000. THAT was hot
Yeah man, that was ridiculous. 112 is not fun.

[Shelly]

Community Rain Dance Steps:

* On Mondays, everyone with an odd-numbered address is to leave the car out of the garage with the windows rolled down overnight.

* Tuesday everyone with pick up trucks must place bagged, non-soluble materials such as flour, sugar, or concrete mix in the truck beds and leave the trucks out overnight.

* Any one with horses should leave the saddles out every night. (preferably the "good" saddle)

* For Wednesday, everyone with an even-numbered address is to leave the car out of the garage with the windows rolled down overnight.

* Thursdays are convertibles day. Anyone with a convertible or a T-top should leave the tops down overnight.

* All residents should line dry laundry on Fridays.

* Saturdays are car wash day. Everyone should wash their cars and trucks today. Twice if the suds hold up. Once this is completed, a afternoon at the beach or a late day sail is in order.

* Sundays we can mix business with pleasure and attend an outdoor event. The stipulation is that under no circumstances will umbrellas be permitted on premises.

[SWC Bonfire]

In 1998, we had a wet initial winter/early spring, it stopped raining in March or so, a ridge of high pressure set in & didn't really go away until November...when it rained 20+ inches in 8 hours from a tropical depression that decided to camp out over the weekend on South central Texas.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Ahem....anyway...(btw, Chopper, I gave up smoking a long time ago :spin)



As long as you haven't given up the occassional Chopper Sandwich everything is just fine and dandy.

[hendrix]

zero degrees C (34 F) this morning here.

[bigzak25]

zero degrees C (34 F) this morning here.



wow...that's nice and balmy...i like the cold as well.

but that's when i don't like the rain. :smokin

[SpursWoman]

Community Rain Dance Steps:

* On Mondays, everyone with an odd-numbered address is to leave the car out of the garage with the windows rolled down overnight.

* Tuesday everyone with pick up trucks must place bagged, non-soluble materials such as flour, sugar, or concrete mix in the truck beds and leave the trucks out overnight.

* Any one with horses should leave the saddles out every night. (preferably the "good" saddle)

* For Wednesday, everyone with an even-numbered address is to leave the car out of the garage with the windows rolled down overnight.

I'm on it! :lol

* Thursdays are convertibles day. Anyone with a convertible or a T-top should leave the tops down overnight.

* All residents should line dry laundry on Fridays.

So I'll hang all of my unmentionables on the back fence....which backs up to a very busy Harry Wurzbach. :lol


* Saturdays are car wash day. Everyone should wash their cars and trucks today. Twice if the suds hold up. Once this is completed, a afternoon at the beach or a late day sail is in order.

But it's the dirt that's holding it together....!! :wow

* Sundays we can mix business with pleasure and attend an outdoor event. The stipulation is that under no circumstances will umbrellas be permitted on premises.

[MannyIsGod]

In 1998, we had a wet initial winter/early spring, it stopped raining in March or so, a ridge of high pressure set in & didn't really go away until November...when it rained 20+ inches in 8 hours from a tropical depression that decided to camp out over the weekend on South central Texas.
There was no depression in 1998. What happend in 998 was that we had an upper level low come in from the west and camp out while tapping a hurricane off of the souther pacific coast. The enourmouse amount of moisture and the lack of movement by the low led to training of thunderstorms with rainfall rates of 3+ inches an hour for over a day. You do the math.

While the overall pattern is simmilar, the dynamics nessecary to produce rains of that nature are very rare. Not everytime we have a persistent upper ridge in place does it lead to floods of that magnitude. In fact, they are pretty unrelated in the grand scheme of things.

[TNT21]

Well all I gotta say is it sucks to be you!!

[Ginofan]

Glad I'm heading to the coast tomorrow :D

[CosmicCowboy]

We are actually in a similar pattern in south Texas to that of 1998. Get ready for another "500" year flood...

Oh fuck...please not that...part of my house is over 100 years old and the foundation wasn't built to current construction specs...With that 30+ days of rain I had springs bubbling up in my living room...

[SequSpur]

Is your ass sweating?

[SWC Bonfire]

Oh fuck...please not that...part of my house is over 100 years old and the foundation wasn't built to current construction specs...With that 30+ days of rain I had springs bubbling up in my living room...

Shouldn't you have a pier & beam foundation? That ain't a spring, that's a geyser! :lol

I can commiserate. The oldest part of my house was built in 1890. And it's in better shape than the newer part! They sure had good lumber back then.

[Faccia di Angelo]

*I'm ready to get the hell out of TX! :pctoss I don't know how I've survived here this long. I'm a winter girl! I love cold weather! and everything that comes with it. I can't take the heat! My weatherbug is flashing 102 in red. Is that possible??? I need to find a nice cool destination...

*(excuse any sudden outbursts, must be side effects from the heat exhaustion)

Ginofan-lucky you! I'd love to go back to the coast. I wish I could go swimming.

[CosmicCowboy]

the lumber was great but my house is on top of a hill and was built on solid rock. In the oldest part of the house all the walls are rock (the ones almost two feet thick) and they literally built the walls on the bedrock...then came back in and poured concrete inside the walls. for the floor..then some walls were left natural, some were stucco'd and the living room was paneled in cypress...anyway...with that endless rain the water built up against the bedrock with no place to go and forced its way in under the rock walls and back up through the floor...

[Samr]

I had to help take a group of kids downtown to some historic house called "Casa Navarro." It was some mid-1800s house, meaning no AC. Also, it was boring as absolute hell. Do this for 4-5 hours, with no water intake, and you can understand why this day has been absolute hell.

[CosmicCowboy]

man, you guys are making me thirsty. I think I need to stop on the way home and fill the ice chest with cold beer and ice. Like all good cowboys I always have one in the back of the truck...:lol

[Flea]

103.3* in the shade and under an awning.


What the heck are you doing outside?

[BadlyDrawnBoy]

WTF happened in July of 2001 when we had another 500 year flood?

[Shelly]

What the heck are you doing outside?


I have an indoor/outdoor themometer. I read it from the INSIDE!

I'm not that dumb! :lol

[MannyIsGod]

July of 2002 actually. Different, but simmilar situation. Those floods last over a week, but the main day was on July 1. That was also due to an upper level low that moved slowly into the area and was very slow to exit. But, it wasn't the same as 98. 98 was much more concentrated over a smaller area and smaller time frame. That is much more rare.

Overall, much more rain fell in 2002 but it was also over a much wider area. 2 very rare flood events that were alike in some ways but different.

When meteorologists say a 100 year flood, or 500 year flood, it's just an approximation. It doesn't mean that one can't happen for another 100 or 500 years.

[Samurai Jane]

Could be worse.. could be in Phoenix... 109 and FAIR... Should be up to 115 next week!!!

[MannyIsGod]

The past few summers haven't been all that hot. Especially last year. Remember the highs in the 80s during August? It all evens out over time.

[MsMcGillyCutty]

But it does make for some great hot sex!

[BadlyDrawnBoy]

I just have about had enough of all these newscasters and their non-stop bitching of the heat.

It's not even that bad. 99 or 100 with a heat index of 103 is fucking nothing. And the humidity isn't even that bad.

[ClintSquint]

Try walking around in the desert heat with a damn pancho....now that's hot.

[Shelly]

Could be worse.. could be in Phoenix... 109 and FAIR... Should be up to 115 next week!!!

After living in Tucson where I saw my fair share of 107 degrees days, I can honestly say I'd take desert heat over this any day. At night it got down in the 80s and at least you could go outside and be comfortable and not get eaten alive by mosquitoes. I'm a West Nile victim waiting to happen.

However, the winters there were too dry. Like a dewpoint of 1 with 1% humidity.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

I'm visiting a friend in Tucson in a couple of weeks. Even the desert heat is hot there, IMO.

In the Land of Enchantment there are only a limited number of days over 100. I'm heading home to sit out on the deck and watch the sunset right now.

[Shelly]

We're gonna go to Santa Fe in August. The weather better be nice!

[Zombie Terri Schiavo]

man, you guys are making me thirsty.

Join the club.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

We're gonna go to Santa Fe in August. The weather better be nice!

Let me know when you're out and I'll recommend some restaurants and places to go.

[MannyIsGod]

Don't be suprised to see rain again today. There is a much better chance today, especially as hot as getting.

[Useruser666]

Its gettin hot in here.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38867000/jpg/_38867835_nelly_300afp.jpg

[1Parker1]

Its gettin hot in here.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38867000/jpg/_38867835_nelly_300afp.jpg

:lol So take of all your clothes.......(well, not you Jimbo;))

Seriously though, I can't imagine having to work through 100 + degree weather. Times like this I'm grateful to be in Philly. It's actually kinda cold outside today and its going to thunderstorm. That's the only bad thing...it's been raining like crazy almost every evening.

[Shelly]

WILL IT MAKE IT????

http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_400x300c/SIR/inmaSIRTXS.gif

[Shelly]

The clouds are kinda getting dark by my house......

[MannyIsGod]

I would bet on no. It'll be cloudier for the next few hours but I think thats all thats going to get here.

[MannyIsGod]

Actually, I take it back. There's outflow bounderies from the East Texas storms along with what looks like the sea breeze front on radar so maybe that'll regenerate the storms now that the cap is broken.

The next hour will tell.

[Shelly]

Well, it's pretty dark in my neck of the woods. Usually the rain hates my part of town.

[MannyIsGod]

It's all cloud debris right now. It's not looking good, but some people may see a few sprinkles.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Nice. Got ourselves a nice rainstorm going on in San Marcos right now.

[Clandestino]

Manny is a fucking weatherman now! :lmao

[MannyIsGod]

the moment the sea breeze front hit those storms near 35 they exploded. But the ones north of SA died out before that could happen. I suppose the storms along 35 could build back a bit to the West but chances are that only the far east side - Converse etc - is going to see any rain.