Where did July go?
In a pretty bizarre year known as 2008, July so far has been rather mild and even cool for the Texas Panhandle. We had much hotter weather back in May and even April when temps soared past 100F on several occassions.
But, one of the many reasons I moved up here was to escape the swealtering, relentless and unbearable summers in North Central Texas around the DFW area. Case in point was today. A seasonally strong cool front plowed through the area knocking our daytime highs into the 70's...with strong insolation!! It was very pleasant with a good breeze luring me outside to do some stuff. Our expected overnight low will be in the upper 50's.
As I write, it is a nice 66F outside with light rain. I just came inside when the precip cranked up after sitting outside enjoying my favorite cold beverage and actually feeling a tad chilly. By comparison, it is STILL 87-92F at 10pm in the DFW area with swealtering humidities. Ugh. I am so glad I'm not stuck down there any more. :-)
We started off the first week of July with alot of cloud cover and precip. I think we had 3 days in a row below 90F. In fact, alot of areas got some really good, soaking rains out of that event including the drought-ravaged Oklahoma Panhandle. Most of that area received 2 inches or less of rain in about a year's time. There is still a long ways to go, but at least it is relief. Many areas of the Texas Panhandle into the Permian Basin region has received moderate to heavy rains which has resulted in many shouts of joy from the ranchers and farmers suffering from from a spring drought.
Tomorrow, high temps are forecast to be only about 80F. Awesome. I'm considering driving down to Lake McKenzie near Silverton just to explore and do some photography stuff. I've seen some awesome landscapes down there while whizzing by chasing a storm. So, a casual trip would be nice to go and check that place out....while we have a break in the July heat.
But, one of the many reasons I moved up here was to escape the swealtering, relentless and unbearable summers in North Central Texas around the DFW area. Case in point was today. A seasonally strong cool front plowed through the area knocking our daytime highs into the 70's...with strong insolation!! It was very pleasant with a good breeze luring me outside to do some stuff. Our expected overnight low will be in the upper 50's.
As I write, it is a nice 66F outside with light rain. I just came inside when the precip cranked up after sitting outside enjoying my favorite cold beverage and actually feeling a tad chilly. By comparison, it is STILL 87-92F at 10pm in the DFW area with swealtering humidities. Ugh. I am so glad I'm not stuck down there any more. :-)
We started off the first week of July with alot of cloud cover and precip. I think we had 3 days in a row below 90F. In fact, alot of areas got some really good, soaking rains out of that event including the drought-ravaged Oklahoma Panhandle. Most of that area received 2 inches or less of rain in about a year's time. There is still a long ways to go, but at least it is relief. Many areas of the Texas Panhandle into the Permian Basin region has received moderate to heavy rains which has resulted in many shouts of joy from the ranchers and farmers suffering from from a spring drought.
Tomorrow, high temps are forecast to be only about 80F. Awesome. I'm considering driving down to Lake McKenzie near Silverton just to explore and do some photography stuff. I've seen some awesome landscapes down there while whizzing by chasing a storm. So, a casual trip would be nice to go and check that place out....while we have a break in the July heat.
posted by Steve Miller TX at 7/12/2008 10:42:00 PM
2 Comments:
Eh, don't get too spoiled. Usually we are sitting on many days without rain and extreme heat by this time of year. Enjoy this gift of a cool wet summer for a change, the old one's will be back.
The rain isn't so well received by the farmers down here. All the ones that either got their cotton blow torched out or hailed out and replanted in milo now actually NEED the higher temps and less rain, so it's not really helping.
Go to Quitaque and caprock canyons for an excellend photography session.
We just NOW got below 100 back in ol' DF dub - a month later than you guys. 107 almost killed me.
Speaking of photography, I'm now the newest member of the Heard Nature Photography Club (heardnaturephotographers.com) - just had an awesome Photoshop seminar. Now if I could just learn Photoshop I'd put all those tips to use.....
Gonna try shooting in RAW format more. That'll be fun.
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