DoctorMu wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 5:37 pm We're more susceptible to *occasional* polar vortex events in the future as reduced polar ice diverts the really cold stuff.

A temporary flux from the Arctic's last dying breath. After that, the hot house begins

Just give it a decade or two - mangroves will forest the Texas coast, and Houston will be struggling to dip below 55 in winter.

Thank heavens such freezes are a thing of the past. Probably will never happen again.

DoctorMu wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:39 amShallow cold air and overrun, wxtroll.

Right, so it wouldn't have been near as cold if the clouds weren't overrunning, given how shallow the cold air was. Nothing to be uptight about, man.

Pas_Bon wrote: ↑Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:11 am Chalk this up to the first time in recent memory the models have UNDERESTIMATED the strength of a cool front. Yayyy!!!

Meh, it's mostly the thick cloud cover doing the work.

Oh wow, some cool temperatures that are absolutely useless to the land. Whoop de doo.

jasons2k wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:11 pmA lot more capping in the spring, too. It’s almost like our Climate is becoming like India’s.

That would be the effect, more or less - though there'd be a bit more cyclonic influence without a more consistent monsoon type pattern. It would be more like present day southern/southwest Mexico's.

Houston is at the same latitude as India. Delhi is at the same latitude as Houston. India have the Himalayas and Karakoram to the north, which Texas has no high mountain range. That's what allows India to be a climate wet dream - they have huge transverse mountain ranges, so they enjoy nice toasty ...

TXWeatherMan wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:10 pmHope that doesn’t happen, and I doubt it will anytime soon.

We'll see. They've seen 100F in February right on the Gulf at Tulum and Villahermosa. And it's already reached Texas, even Laredo and McAllen have seen 100F in February!

Kingwood36 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:43 pm Any cool front in sight?

Next Friday.

Cromagnum wrote: ↑Sat Oct 10, 2020 4:39 pmNo different than any other winter here. I've been in Houston 40 years and see fall, winter, and summer every cold season.

The difference is that the cold would be getting weaker. Less "rollercoastering," more constant 70-90F days throughout winter.

Just watch, the tropical takeover is happening. Very soon, Houston will regularly see those hot 90F winter days just like the Rio Grande Valley & tropical Mexico.

jasons2k wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:09 pm I’m with you 100%...anything below that is pointless unless it’s snowing, and If I wanted that, I’d move to Denver. I say it every year, but there is nothing I can do to control the weather...except retire back in Florida some day.

...Or wait for climate change to really kick in.

I really hope we don’t have a warm winter. You have that 8 months out of the year so I’m sure you can handle 3-4 months of “cold” weather. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy cooler winter temps myself - let's say, highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s/upper 40s. But anything below that doesn't seem to be of a...

Some big cold blasts have occurred in La Nina winters like in 1895, 1899, 1911, 1918, 1924, 1951, 1962, 1985, 1989, 1996, 2011, and 2018. Again, the cold and precip only happen in the instances of La Ninas with El Nino permeations (i.e. SOI crashes). And even then, many of those years had great str...

No thanks. I’ll take cold and some winter precip. By the way, La Niña doesn’t ensure warm and dry weather every time. The last time was 17-18 winter and it snowed at my house.. The 17-18 season definitely wasn't a proper one, it still had substantial El Nino influences (i.e. SOI crashes with active...

Very wonderful rain this past week! Summer (Jun - Sept) was decent, not including the early July and late August dry breaks.

Hoping for a very warm and dry fall and winter. La Nina in place will thankfully ensure that.

Funny how you never hear about how ‘North Carolina ate that hurricane!’ or ‘Florida’s dry air just decimated that storm!’ Seems to be a pretty unique Texas thing They get cyclones even in the deserts of Arabia. There's nothing special in the dry air department - I'd place more blame on general US w...

Yeesh, the US never ceases to surprise me with it's godawful weather patterns. Stupid storms always going east.

It still could wobble west

Hope it does. If not, the rest of the month better deliver, or else August will be a failure.