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New Rain Season begins… just in time for the weekend.
You’ll notice that the Yearly rain (and ET) dial has reset to 0. That’s because our official “rain year” starts on October 1st. Our total for the 2007-2008 Season was 1221mm, 1.2 meters or almost 4ft of precipitation. This includes snow melt on the station as well. That is below the “normal” of about 1900mm…
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A Little more Summer, before Winter hits
Today should be another beautiful day! Enjoy it, because by the looks of it Friday and Saturday we should have a good’ol Sou’wester blow through. The weather charts yesterday indicated Storm to Hurricane force winds offshore, so we could get some gusty winds here as well. I’m pleased to announce a new feature on the…
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Sinlaku is that you?
I haven’t been paying attention to the satellite imagery lately, so I’m not sure if the system we’re getting tonight is the remants of Typhoon Sinlaku? Anyone know? Look at that temperature profile over the past 24hr. Ha… 4C difference… gotta love that return to the sou’wester!
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New View Coming
Well, it’s almost the equinox. And that means two things… our garden is bursting with tomatoes, peppers, carrots and parsnips… AND it’s time to shift the webcam until next spring. I’m going to turn the camera around to face North. This is necessary because the sun will soon have moved far enough south that it…
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Hurricane Ike
The weather is beautiful here. It’s not so beautiful in Texas. Please… safest wishes for the people of Galveston, Port Arthur and Houston, Texas. The Storm surge is already near 50 year record levels and the eye has not come on shore yet.