I lived in Mobile I know what you are going through but it is going to be 90 with a heat index of 97 here today. A scorcher by any reasonable standard. Can't help the fact that you choose to live in Satan's taint, aka Houston
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We're supposed to have our first XC race on Thursday. Predicted temp at start time would be in the 99-100 range (actual temp not heat index). We decided to cancel this race. As far as I know, it will continue even though AHSAA guidelines tell them to cancel the event.
I love that area!
Friend used to live in Oxnard Shores. Some pics from my vacation out there in '03......
It was Christmastime so a lot of festivities.....
And C-Street, of course......
The whole state is beyond beautiful. Morro Bay....
Texas has a major drought every 10-14 years, and this is a drought year. Out last one was in 2011, which is basically the single year drought of record. The Chihuahuan Desert extends to around the Texas Hill Country, which will drive these droughts.
In Houston, it normally doesn't get above 100F, and when it does, it's usually because the wind is out of the Southwest. This was the case in 2011, accounting for all the 100F+ days that year. With the SW wind though, the humidity is lower.
This year, we've had all these 100F+ days with the wind coming from the Southeast, off the Gulf. This is abnormal, and has been what has made this summer so miserable. The Gulf is hot, (87F at Galveston today) but it's always hotter than the eastern gulf because it's so shallow here. You have to go 70 miles out of Galveston to reach water 100 feet deep. But these temperatures with a SE wind is unusual.
In Houston, it normally doesn't get above 100F, and when it does, it's usually because the wind is out of the Southwest. This was the case in 2011, accounting for all the 100F+ days that year. With the SW wind though, the humidity is lower.
This year, we've had all these 100F+ days with the wind coming from the Southeast, off the Gulf. This is abnormal, and has been what has made this summer so miserable. The Gulf is hot, (87F at Galveston today) but it's always hotter than the eastern gulf because it's so shallow here. You have to go 70 miles out of Galveston to reach water 100 feet deep. But these temperatures with a SE wind is unusual.
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Yeah, I'm totally fine with a heat index <105° - I consider it warm, but not 'hot'. Hit is a heat index of 110° or greater (which you guys are having daily and have had for weeks, it seems) and that's hot - that kind of heat just wears on you.
every conversation here about the weather begins with the letter F
Living in the middle of the city (a giant heat island) doesn't help. I went down to Alvin (south of Houston much nearer the coast) Monday evening to give a speech and it was surprisingly tolerable.
To give an example, the storm plus snowpack runoff so far has brought Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, up to 20' below where it was in January, 2020. There will be still more to gain from runoff, but it still rests right on the borderline of a crisis. BTW, we touched 90 today on our mountaintop, first time in two years...
It was fairly decent until around the 15th here. I knew it wouldn't last. We have two more days to go before a cool front and a break down to the mid-80s in the valley, around 80 or so up here...
just switch to celsius at midnight tonight, it will get all the way down to 40.5 degrees
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