After the tropical storm in the gulf dissipated we had about a week of humid air and every day held a small forecasted chance of pop up storms. Most days held a 10 percent chance of rain. On the last day of the week, a sunday, the best chance of rain was forecasted: a 40 …
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Join me on a Spontaneous Quest to Find a Pop up Storm in the Hill Country.
It never did rain in Center Point that day. Im glad i took a detour to find the rain. Otherwise i never would have seen it.
A Taste of Rain
A tropical storm had made landfall in the gulf with 60 mph winds. It was disappointing because we have in the past had storms blow through here easily with 70 mph winds so we all knew, a hurricane it was not going to be. It just wasnt strong enough to bring anything inland. What it …
An Episode of Storm Chasers
I was watching an episode of storm chasers this morning when i heard a familiar noise. The guys decided not to intercept the tornado with their data recording device for three reasons; it was bigger than they realized, it was heading in their direction, and it was traveling at a higher rate of speed than …
Storms
I grew up in Texas. I spent most of my life in this environment and i was used to the cycle of drought. 3 years dry, 1 wet. It had been 4 years since we had any significant rainfall to speak of. The reserve collected rain water for emergencies was nearly gone. The creeks were …
If You Build a House on Sand…
Unfortunately this bird chose the wrong location to erect her nest. There is a spot where one gutter opens out onto a metal roof and then another gutter continues beneath it. This bird thought the open mouth of the gutter tube looked like a great place to build a nest. It was sheltered from the …
A Spring Hail Storm
I am usually at work when weather hits but this storm was driven by a front and built overnight until it exploded. I was in Center Point when the little red weather radio in the kitchen announced Fredericksburg was getting ping pong ball sized hail. It wasnt until i got to work the next day …
Weather’s Coming, Weather’s Coming!
i had just gotten back to work in time to work with some of the feeder patients for supper. I had received word that the wire transfer went through and the money i needed to write a check for the rest of the cost of the nissan rogue was sitting in my account. I had …
A Rain Storm
As i watered the orchard and went about the evening chores the wind picked up and the air became cooler. The sky clouded over and nightfall drew ever closer. It felt as if the forecast for rain the following morning may come true. The weather was not producing at the moment but the atmosphere seemed …
The Earth is Finally Watered
It finally rained. We had such a historic drought that many of our trees died and i only had to cut the grass once all year. What is dead doesn’t grow to need mowed. Well once everything was good and dead the heavens opened and dumped an immense amount of precipitation on our crusty parched …