Texas Summer 2016

[Texas Snowman]

Yup, crazy hot temps in Big D.

Meanwhile, storms boiling up here along the Red River.

And crazy - really CRAZY - rainfall totals are swamping SE Louisiana.

[Brent]

Could be the last 100 or greater day in 2016 and its going out with a bang...dang.

Yep... I think the parking lot is melting lol

[Ntxw]

Think the compression from the incoming front really drove up the heat burst today. But storms are firing now so many areas are dropping back to the 90s

[Ntxw]

The airport went down to 86 (nbc 5) underneath thunderstorms. Talk about a wild swing

[aggiecutter]

Summer-going, going-could it be gone:

[Brent]

Sweet sound of thunderstorms! This day sure ended with a bang! The only good thing about summer in Texas is that it makes us appreciate weather changes when they happen!

[Ntxw]

Winter is coming y'all

[Brent]

The 18z gfs has some low to mid 60s around DFW out around 300 hours. It does not appear this will be the only front this month

[BrokenGlassRepublicn]

Could be the last 100 or greater day in 2016 and its going out with a bang...dang.

Yeah, my station in Richardson touched 107. Wow.

[BrokenGlassRepublicn]

Somehow I managed to dance between the raindrops - or in this case, the thunderstorms. All of the activity on Friday afternoon moved just to my east or just to my west. Then a big popup happened literally a mile directly to my south. I came away with just .008 in the Friday fun. Oh well, I did feel the cooldown, which is what really matters.

[Ntxw]

In case you havent checked, below Alaska and just to the southwest we have a massive warm pool, highly anomalous (with blocking overhead) in the same area as what started in 2013.

[Brent]

I never thought 90 degrees could feel semi-acceptable til today.

[Ntxw]

Our standards are low in the summer

Hoping for the front next weekend for some 60s

[gpsnowman]

Our standards are low in the summer

Hoping for the front next weekend for some 60s

Funny and true. It is amazing that our tolerence for summer heat is beaten down by a day in the 90's with less humidity. It actually feels decent outside, funny as that sounds. But those 60's sound pretty tolerable. Baby steps until then. Gotta love it. 91 degrees where I am at in Frisco even without cloud cover and rain.

[Brent]

Our standards are low in the summer

Hoping for the front next weekend for some 60s

Funny and true. It is amazing that our tolerence for summer heat is beaten down by a day in the 90's with less humidity. It actually feels decent outside, funny as that sounds. But those 60's sound pretty tolerable. Baby steps until then. Gotta love it. 91 degrees where I am at in Frisco even without cloud cover and rain.

Yeah... it is August. It could easily be 100+ all month so the fact we're getting a break at all is pretty amazing.

But yeah, bring on those 60s. GFS still showing it.

[A.V.]

Yeah... it is August. It could easily be 100+ all month so the fact we're getting a break at all is pretty amazing.

But yeah, bring on those 60s. GFS still showing it.

Actually, on average, after Aug 10, the atmospheric patterns, on average, yield to more rain chances, since HP elongates in a way that the Gulf gets open. At least, that is the case for southern Texas.

[A.V.]

I think over the past years, Texas just got unlucky with HP positioning; in July, the HP usually is over the Southern Rockies, so the subsidence is never enough to influence large areas of Texas. Recently, the HP has been favoring the Southern Plains; as long as it is in the normal position in the Four Corners area, summers will be rainy in Texas.

[weatherdude1108]

0.41 inches in the gauge and 79 degrees at 8pm. Nice change!

[weatherdude1108]

High confidence from the EWX on overnight regeneration of storms. Bring it!


762
FXUS64 KEWX 140230
AFDEWX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
930 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 2016

.DISCUSSION...
Although, showers and thunderstorms have waned over South Central
Texas this evening, a surface front and numerous other boundaries
along with a mid to upper level shear axis will lift a very moist
airmass with PWS greater than 2 inches (satellite derived as high
as 2.9) to regenerate showers and thunderstorms overnight into the
morning hours. Have maintained likely POPs. Locally heavy rainfall
remains possible. Only changes were to re-establish temperature,
dewpoint, and wind trends for the remainder of tonight.

&&

[TheAustinMan]

a surface front and numerous other boundaries
along with a mid to upper level shear axis will lift a very moist
airmass with PWS greater than 2 inches (satellite derived as high
as 2.9) to regenerate showers and thunderstorms overnight into the
morning hours.

Gadzooks! 2.9" of precipitable water is very, very high for the area. Corpus Christi sounding at 00z indicated 2.03" precipitable water, while Lake Charles' had 2.65". Hopefully there's no additional widespread flooding, but there's certainly potential with all that moisture lying around.