Posted on 07/30/2012 2:09:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Houston - Although it's ending on a warm note, July sure was lovely.
The region received lots of drought-quenching rain and average temperatures were a couple of degrees cooler than normal.
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But are we in for déjà vu all over again, with regard to the torrid August 2011, during the month ahead? Houston suffered through August last year with a record-shattering daily high average of 102 degrees.
Probably not, says Chris Hebert, a forecaster with Houston-based ImpactWeather. Hebert noted that a large area of high pressure has been centered for much of the summer over parts of the Midwest.
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"With the high up north it leaves the upper Gulf coast open to continued daily rounds of afternoon showers," he said.
This should also moderate daytime temperatures a bit. Whereas every day during August of last year reached 100 degrees but one, this August may not see a single 100-degree day, he said.
The slightly cooler and wetter weather may come with a price, however.
Hebert studied the 20 wettest and 20 driest Julys on record for Houston and found a striking correlation with hurricane activity.
After 40 percent of the wettest Julys a major hurricane struck Texas or Louisiana during the remainder of that year's hurricane season, Hebert said. But there were no major hurricane strikes after the driest Julys.
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Lucky! LOL
WC has certainly become a full-fledged member of the NBC liberal propaganda machine.
In my case, not so much. I'm originally from Lousiana, and I LIKE hot weather. Summer here is about like very early spring "down there".
***but they really don’t have any better idea about what we will get than I do.***
Several years ago it was found that the hurricane forecasters were just guessing as to how many hurricanes there would be in a year.
Yet they are still taken as gospel by some.
Right now we could use some hurricane rains here.
Dryest year in my memory.
We have always had droughts in August,but this one started in July and hasn’t let up.
I’m a Virginian, born and raised, and I love everything about my state except the hot, humid summers. I’m definitely a cold weather chick.
A friend went back to her native WA state for summer vacation. I’m still jealous, LOL.
Well, if it takes a hurricane to get rain up here to DFW, then so be it.
Wow must have been something in the air! LOL
Must be a really slow news day for the idiots at the Comical. Every afternoon for weeks now I glance out my window on the 28th floor downtown and can see the rain coming. I remember several years ago the same thing happened. Weather comes in cycles....
Well, as the old saying goes......"it's not the heat, it's the humidity". My personal ideal climate is West Texas...the area just west of San Antone. I'll give you Virginia as being one "really purty" state, at least outside the urban areas (did I mention that "I'm a country boy").
Red sky at night, hurricanes coming!
Woh oh, woh oh oh oh...
Oh, same here. We’re rural and wouldn’t have it any other way. I do love my Blue Ridge Mountains, and you can’t see them very well from the cities. ;)
or not...
Normal monsoon time of year?
Actually, with the Bermuda (Azores) high being higher than is normal high, extending nearly to FL, the GOM stands a 200 pct greater change of landfalling minors and majors this season.
Hey Mormon dude. You knew that already. Raining again tonight.
Plus: That is a deist image. A higher power exists!
I once read an anecdote about a man who was never pleased with anything. One day a man made a bet with his friends that he could say something the old grouch would agree with. It was one of those perfect days that is seldom seen, temperature just right, a few puffy white clouds floating in a beautiful blue sky and a mild breeze, just enough to make you feel like singing. He strolled up to the grouch, smiled and commented on the wonderful weather. The grouch looked at him, grunted and said, “I hate good weather.” The other man couldn’t believe what he had heard, “How could you possibly hate good weather?” The reply came back, “Because good weather is always followed by bad weather.”
It’s actually true, you know.
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