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How's the weather?

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Mike80 said:
So I wonder if they are going to build an ark for people in Oklahoma and Texas?
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Nope.... we need this rain (not in this volume this quickly) very badly. While there will be some flooding most of the rain is getting absorbed by the ground with not much run off. They say for central Texas we're in for a below average temp above average rain total for the summer. Thanks El Nino :)
 
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AuTX Buckeye said:
Nope.... we need this rain (not in this volume this quickly) very badly. While there will be some flooding most of the rain is getting absorbed by the ground with not much run off. They say for central Texas we're in for a below average temp above average rain total for the summer. Thanks El Nino :)
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So the bass will be in shallow water at Lake Fork, then?
 
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Flooding two days ago... more rain today ... tornado watch and a flash flood warning for my area, already several tornado's touch down west..... we needed rain but not like this...
 
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SloopyHangOn said:
There's only been 4 days this month that haven't had an accumulation of rain in my city.

I'm not in Texas, though. It's been pretty much monsoon season in the midwest...

...because fuck Cali, amirite?
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It's about to change though - after the storm system that is currently raining itself out in Texas moves northeastward, a high pressure area should build in and become dominant for at least a week maybe more...

And I think California will catch up in a big way this winter. They aren't getting rain now because they aren't supposed to be getting rain now. El Nino years can triple what they get in the winter, and I don't think this year will be an exception to that rule.
 
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We've got about 18 to 20 inches of rain this month in Austin...This doesn't include the foot of rain out in Blanco that lead to the Blanco river swelling to 40+ft (previous record was 33ft, flood stage 13ft) and sending a wall of destruction down on Wimberley and other areas, including uprooting some 100+ year old cypress trees. Lake Travis (Austin's water source) was 30% full before May, now its nearly 70% full. its up 35 ft since the beginning of the year.... 25ft in the last 7 days. The Edwards Aquifer serves are water source for most outside of Austin, including San Antonio
The cities here pull from the Edwards Aquifer, a massive limestone groundwater source that fits under most of the central state. The aquifer is porous, cracked, carved out, so water trickles in easy, especially at a huge, crescent-shaped exposed area called the recharge zone that runs roughly alongside the I-35 and then curves south and west. “It has a lot of crevice, fractures, caves. As rains happen, they flow over the limestone surface, and that rapidly recharges the water table directly,” rather than having to percolate through layers of soil and bedrock, says Larry French, the director of groundwater resources with the Texas Water Development Board. Though not as easy to monitor as the reservoirs, French says this aquifer rose about seven to eight feet over the past week. Which is a lot, considering the aquifer is over 1,250 square miles in area.
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I've lived in a few places... but man seeing the utter devastation flooding can have is both awe inspiring and terrifying reminder that water is an extremely powerful force

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/texas-floods-big-ended-states-drought/
 
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