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People who know me will know that I'm a weather nut.  I love following hurricanes and watching severe weather.  I also, for the first time in a while, like the forecast for Austin and Central Texas later this week.  It looks like this: What you see above is a map showing drought condditions across the state.  The ...

In the front yard on of my home in Apache Shores on Valentine's Day in 2003. Later in February, 2003.  That was a cold month for Austin. I took this photo in Lakeway this morning - February 12, 2009.  January was cold, but February has hardly been like winter at all. February can be a strange month for weather in ...

Do you know what you are looking at?  These bushes are called Cenizo or Purple Sage or the Texas barometer bush.  Why the latter?  The usually gray-leafed bush blooms with bright purple blossoms before it rains.  These guys are absolutely covered today.  I guess they already know what those of us following the weather ...

I have had a number of people from outside of Texas ask me lately about the weather here.  It seems that people from the north and from coastal California think it is always hot here.   Below is a table I put together with data from one of the local TV stations. The table shows average high and low temperatures per month (in ...

There was an excellent extra section in today's Austin American Statesman Statesman.  It is their once a year publication of all kinds of stats, things to do, places to see, music, museums, hospitals, festivals, transportation, toll roads, light rail, parks, golf, public swimming pools, city government information, volunteer ...

The last few days have been absolutely beautiful in the Austin area.  Cold nights, cool days and low humidity are what we have experienced.  An interesting thing happens in the morning on days like these. What you are looking at is fog that is spilling over Mansfield Dam, which holds back Lake Travis, into The valley that carries Lake ...

Central Texas has seen more than its share of rain this year.  Many places have already received double their annual amount of rain and that was before Tropical Storm Erin decided to hit Texas.  San Antonio appears to have been absolutely swamped today. Now that Erin has dumped more rain than we can absorb we have another 5-7 days ...

Thanks to some good rain over a wide area a week ago, Lake Travis is up about 6 feet.  This is a big deal because the lake has been so low.  Six feet isn't much considering that Lake Travis was about 36 feet low before the rain, but it is a start.  With the lake falling several inches a day without the rain, this small rise will ...

If you have paid any attention at all to the news you know about the ice that has coated the country from the Big Bend area of Texas all the way to New Hampshire.  The Austin area didn't get hit as hard as eastern Oklahoma, but we did get hit.  Allow me to illustrate: The first photo was taken this morning at around 11:15.  ...