Texas Weather . . .

Well really North Texas weather.  We are gradually getting out of the spring thunderstorm season.  This is when we have the severe weather, spring time.  Gulf moisture pumps up here and further North feeding all the systems up to and including Canada.  The Pacific Ocean provides the motivation, in that storms come into us from California, scoop up the moisture and build into tremendous thunder storms.  And tremendous thunder storm systems build into tornadoes!

Yesterday was a warm and windy day with gusts above 25 miles per hour.  And the Gulf of Mexico moisture in the form of low clouds were ripping Northward into Oklahoma.  And true to form, storms started to pop up but not in Texas, but along the Texas Oklahoma state line and flow North from us.  So there were tornadoes in the southern part of Oklahoma and rains.  We got a few showers, maybe a quarter of inch of spotty rain.  The strong Southerly winds drove our thunderstorms North into Oklahoma.

We can use the spotty rain, but not the thunderstorms.  We have had at least two hail storms already this year, normally we get about one every three or four years apart.  And the spring rains have charged up the local lakes such that the local small but vicious rivers are flowing.  The Brazos River over by our western border of Parker County has been out of its banks already.  That usually means Possum Kingdom Lake is at its maximum level and they must release water down stream.  That water flows in to Granbury Lake which is at its maximum so it is now flowing South towards Waco and Austin country.  I am sure Lake Travis at Austin which had been down sixty feet is probably up to snuff again.

That means the grass is nice and green.  The trees are all leafed out and full of leaves.  Things are growing well everywhere.  And the deer are not bothering us, meaning they have plenty of forage close to them so they do not have come into our yards and eat all the plants.  So I guess the drought is over for the moment.

The temperatures are breeching 80 and soon will be breeching 90 degrees.  July will be hot and sultry, literally steaming.  We will get our usual 25 or so days of temperatures over 100.  Hotter here than Tucson, Arizona.  I know for I have lived in both climates.