gpsnowman wrote:FloppaHorn wrote:Kirby68 wrote:
Yes. I made this exact post 6-8 weeks ago here. Grew up in north Texas 70’s and 80’s. I always remembered the strong pacific fronts blowing through in September with a line of storms and a blustery north wind following. It seems like it’s been forever since that’s happened.
I know y'all are speaking to the Pacific fronts, but I can - quite literally - see Harold Taft standing in front of one of his maps talking about a "blue norther".
Harold Taft. A big reason why I fell in love with the weather when we moved back to DFW in 1984. The cold waves of January and February 1985 are still solid memories for me because of him. I remember watching him daily forecasting snow and cold. Obsessed as a child. Now I can't stop!!! During this period my father bought me a Radio Shack weather radio and I listened to all the weather conditions from around the state almost nightly before bed. Good times.
Same! I'd be hanging on pins and needles nightly to see his "this day in weather history" factoid. Lake Worth freezing over, heat burst frying corn fields near Waco, recounting his take on watching the 1957 Dallas tornado from Ft. Worth. His truisms like "a drought ends in a flood and a flood ends in a drought", "32 degrees is the freezing point of water but also the melting point of ice". I became a weather nerd because of him.
I must've read his book (
https://www.amazon.com/Texas-weather-Ha ... B0006W5QVK) cover to cover 1,000 times.
I was a soph in college when he died...I remember feeling a genuine sense of loss.