Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[johnrex62]

I am very glad I could help everyone here in central Texas. I poured my concrete slab and driveway Tuesday morning and it was covered just in time for the rain to start. A few pock marks from the nearby treeline on one corner, but otherwise it is fine and acting as a rain attractor. :thumbsup:

 

[Bird]

I am very glad I could help everyone here in central Texas. I poured my concrete slab and driveway Tuesday morning and it was covered just in time for the rain to start. A few pock marks from the nearby treeline on one corner, but otherwise it is fine and acting as a rain attractor. :thumbsup:

I'm sure we all appreciate it, John. I'm now up to about 1.95" for the last couple of days and it's still sprinkling a little.

 

[Western]

Yep, Dennis, in addition to the 1.08" I mentioned above, I've gotten over a half inch since 7:30 this morning. I went to Walmart on the north side of Denton about 10:20 this morning, got back about 11:25 and it looked like it had been snowing in my neighborhood, but it's piles of sleet.

Bird, that's funny you mention sleet, i told my wife that I thought I saw a little sleet, she said I was crazy, "not cold enough"....wemon...geeez

I am very glad I could help everyone here in central Texas. I poured my concrete slab and driveway Tuesday morning and it was covered just in time for the rain to start. A few pock marks from the nearby treeline on one corner, but otherwise it is fine and acting as a rain attractor. :thumbsup:

John, you the man!! Weather man say's we're still over 9" below average, so keep pouring concrete. No need to worry about the "pock marks" they'll add traction to your driveway

 

[NativeSon]

It was raining yesterday evening and it must have rained all night. I checked the guage early this morning and we got 1 3/4 inches......WOW, haven't had that much at one time for quite a while. Let the horses out and it looked like a river running through the pen.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

Bird, that's funny you mention sleet, i told my wife that I thought I saw a little sleet, she said I was crazy, "not cold enough"....wemon...geeez

Dennis, like I said I went up on the north side of Denton and then I got back within a quarter mile of home; couple hundred yards north of Exit 460 on I-35E, before I noticed all that white stuff alongside the road, looked like snow, but I first thought a truck or something might have spilled soap suds or such.:laughing: Then when I got off the Interstate service road, there was that white in the valleys of all the roofs as well as in the yards. Turned out to be pea sized or smaller ice (sleet) and there was one little pile in our backyard that was no more than 2' across, but so deep it made me ask my wife if she had raked it up there and she denied it. There's still just a little bit of that pile left this morning.

It was raining yesterday evening and it must have rained all night.

Charlie, I just went out and emptied my rain gauge. I figure my grand total for this spell was 2.4". I think it's all over and the NWS shows Denton only got .01" since midnight. That's the most we've gotten since a 5 day spell that included damaging hail in May.

 

[jinman]

Bird, your total topped me. I only got 1-3/4 for the total storm. It rained very slowly for a long time and soaked into the ground. I'm extremely pleased to get this much rain without any damaging wind/hail.

 

[EddieWalker]

Another 3/4 of an inch last night for a total of 1.5 inches out of this storm. Tomorrow I burn!!!!

Eddie

 

[txdon]

Be careful Eddie, I took our new fire truck on it's first call to a brush pile that escaped, but that was before 2 days of light rain. 1.5" in Lee County!

With 1500 gallons of baffled water it sure was drifting around a long curve. We might have to look for front bumper weights.

 

[two_bit_score]

Recall when we had snow on Corpus Christi beach on Christmas a few years ago?

 

[Western]

Recall when we had snow on Corpus Christi beach on Christmas a few years ago?

Now that would have felt "odd" , Only times I've been down there was summer and the humidity was unbearable for me. I did go to a men's bible camp near there in the 70's with my dad and it was kinda cool. Somewhere near Brownsville I think.


You guy's did pretty darn good on the rain totals, with all the thunder and lightning you'd have thought We would have a foot here, but yet ended with a trace over 1/2". Maybe I need a new rain gauge, mine has a big hole on the top

 

[Bird]

Recall when we had snow on Corpus Christi beach on Christmas a few years ago?

I don't think we ever saw snow down there, but we went to Port Aransas for the week of Thanksgiving every year for many years and quickly learned to carry both warm weather and cold weather clothes because you never knew which you were going to have, but there was a good chance of having both hot and cold weather during the week.

 

[bindian]

We got 1/4 inch of rain last night.
hugs, Brandi

 

[ronjhall]

In a way I am happy you guys are keeping your rain. It's finally stopped up north here. But, weather forecast reports say we are in for a green Christmas.

 

[two_bit_score]

Now that would have felt "odd" , Only times I've been down there was summer and the humidity was unbearable for me. I did go to a men's bible camp near there in the 70's with my dad and it was kinda cool. Somewhere near Brownsville I think.


You guy's did pretty darn good on the rain totals, with all the thunder and lightning you'd have thought We would have a foot here, but yet ended with a trace over 1/2". Maybe I need a new rain gauge, mine has a big hole on the top

The pics of snow on the beach were pretty net. The Caller-Times had some good ones on their website but I can't find them right now. if I can I'll post a link.


Pretty much got some good rain over the last few days from the coastal bend to east Texas. All much needed and appreciated.

Bird may be having a big sale on his special rain gauges so you could pick up a few spares.

 

[two_bit_score]

In a way I am happy you guys are keeping your rain. It's finally stopped up north here. But, weather forecast reports say we are in for a green Christmas.

It all runs down hill.

 

[two_bit_score]

I don't think we ever saw snow down there, but we went to Port Aransas for the week of Thanksgiving every year for many years and quickly learned to carry both warm weather and cold weather clothes because you never knew which you were going to have, but there was a good chance of having both hot and cold weather during the week.

Yeh. The beach when it's cold is a mystical place. I prefer the warm weather mostly because of the girls in bikinis.

Search you tube for "port aransas snow 2004" and you'll get a pretty good video of it. I could never figure out how to link it.

 

[two_bit_score]

http://media.caller.com/media/img/photos/2009/12/03/20091203-111523-pic-643662352_t300.jpg

http://media.caller.com/media/img/photos/2009/12/03/20091203-111523-pic-662346327_t607.jpg

http://media.caller.com/media/img/photos/2009/12/03/20091203-111523-pic-976071040_t607.jpg

Here are some pics of the snow on Corpus Christi beach. Man I can't believe that was back in 2004. Seems like just a year or two ago.

 

[jinman]

Wow! Don't you know that those palm trees were in shock?:laughing:

This all started with Bird talking about a huge sleet storm. I'm still amazed at that because it was in the southern part of Wise county as Dennis mentioned, but all I saw here was huge downpours of rain. Last night the weatherman was showing the snowstrom predictions in the panhandle and called it "thunder-snow" instead of thunderstorm. It would really feel weird to have thunder, lightning, and heavy snow at the same time. I guess that's another one of those "only in Texas" kind of things.:confused2:

 

[Western]

Jim, that last big snow/freeze event we had last, what Feb? We had the Thunder snow, 1st time my wife has heard thunder, other than the usually rain associated event.

"Heat lightning" is also neat to see, have seen that a few times, mostly in the Western part of Texas for me though.

Supposed to rain again Sunday through Monday night, should get allot of run-off from this one. I had more run-off with this last 1/2" than when we got the 1"+ so I think the ground is getting saturated good.

I wish they would update the Lakes info more on the news, last I heard lake Bridgeport was 13' low, but I haven't been there since it was 6' low myself. Hard to put a boat in when the ramp is 20' from the water

 

[two_bit_score]

It seems like the ground has soaked up all the water. Pretty saturated. Took the backhoe and pulled up a few trees pretty easily this afternoon. Maybe the next rain will go in the pond.