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Storm the Field

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  1. Hey at least you're still getting in some lake time. Some very good friends of ours here in Houston have a place on Lake Travis. They typically hit the road and spend at least every other weekend of the Summer at the lake, if not more often than that. They pretty much gave up and have hardly gone at all this year. Floating dock has been sitting on dry land for god knows how long at this point. Boat is essentially just a fancy ornament sitting under the driveway slip.
  2. Anybody else's weekends gotten really worthless during this stretch? Drinking and swimming are about the extent of "stuff to do." Too damn miserable to do anything healthy or productive outdoors. House projects piling up, haven't touched my bike in months, dogs rarely get to go on long walks.
  3. Inka and 34: A bunch of friends have a house booked for a Guys Trip/40th BDay weekend right down on the river by Don's the weekend after Labor Day. Any idea if we'll actually have water to lounge around in?
  4. Think that's likely from the extreme heat levels yesterday and getting very little time to cool down . It was still in the 90's at bedtime and still 85 at 5:00 a.m.
  5. 2023 has now officially overtaken 2011. Worst Summer Ever, we did it folks!
  6. More consolidation: Permian Resources buying Earthstone for $4.5B. https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/14297917/permian-resources-to-acquire-earthstone-energy PRC will now have close to 400K acres between TX and NM.
  7. 10:02 and the ambient temp is 92 with a heat index of 105.
  8. Got close to matching the all-time record at the IAH monitoring station. Previous record was 109 on 8/27/11. Currently 107.6, which is a new record for August 20th, but doesn't look like we'll top that. Heat index has actually come down from a Summer 2023 record of 116 at 4:15 to 111 currently.
  9. Well, there's an extremely uncommon weather event at the moment. More relevant is that once the hurricane passes and things go back to "normal" in Death Valley, it will be about the same temperature as Austin. Forecast highs at the Furnace Creek Visitor's Center (the place where tourists go take photos next to the temperature gauge) for the rest of August is ~104 every day. That's more or less indistinguishable from the Austin forecast, if not a few degrees cooler actually. The hottest place in the United States, a literal desert 190 feet below sea level, will be hard to tell apart from most of Texas.
  10. One run short of an epic comeback. 2023 Astros in a nutshell. We are 17-20 in games decided by a single run. 1-7 in extras. I was at MMP Friday night. Place was electric when Diaz came up with 2 on and 1 out in the 9th. Within 5 seconds the game was over. GIDP so quick and easy the crowd seemed confused for a good 10 seconds, not realizing it had ended. Perfect encapsulation of the season. For lack of a better word, the "magic" we seemed to possess from 2017-22 just isn't there.
  11. Good work Stanek. 4 batters faced, 4 outs.
  12. Gonna hit ~107 around 4:30 and stay above 100 until sundown at 8:00. Not gonna get below 90 until after midnight. Oh and looks like we get to do this exact same thing next Sunday too. If this year is not just some miserably El Nino-centric anomaly and this is in any way what future years have in store, I can't do this shit for ~90 days every year. I'm packing the fuck up and leaving Texas. So long lifelong friends and family. Try and come visit sometime! Hell, if this Summer keeps on spitting out triple digits and worsening drought much past Labor Day Weekend, I'm gonna have to seriously think about escaping until daily highs at least drop to 95 or less. I'm running out of patience something serious.
  13. Glad I don't have peacock so not gonna spend my Sunday watching us get pantsed by the M's again.
  14. Bout to enter the Thunderdome. Today looks like it will be the hottest day of the entire year in Houston, possibly hitting 107. Slight relief early part of the week then 104+ every day from Thursday to Sunday. Week before Labor Day looking like ~101 every day but I'm sure that will be adjusted higher. We live in hell. Literall hell.
  15. Rags lost, so we're not losing any ground so far, but Mariners have their noses in our ass and a few hours away from being in the middle of the wild card race. So fucking annoying. Their team is the hottest player on the planet, 8 beer leaguers, and a bunch of procedurally-generated pitchers and they're beating everyone.
  16. This team is good, but cursed. Anytime an Astro gets hot, they get sick/hurt. The ideal 2023 Astros team has taken the field maybe 20 out of 100 games. We'll end up winning 90 games, which ain't bad, but that's it. Shitty luck finally caught up to old-school, hard-headed manger. God, I hope this post ages like room temperature milk.
  17. https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/houston/year-2022#may It got hotter than usual the first weekend in May and stayed that way for a few weeks. Late May and early June were average. Blastfurance really kicked into gear around the 2nd week of June, and then went into overdrive for a 30-day stretch from around 6/20 to 7/20, but we're talking mostly days around 99-101, not 105-107. Only hit triple digits 8x in July 2022, and never longer than 4 days in a row. Even at its worst, we'd catch a breather occasionally. The hottest 4-day stretch of the entire summer was 7/9-12 when it was 102, 104, 103, 101. We're going on like 5 straight weeks of that shit with more to come. August 2022 was pretty average, hot and rainy. By this point, we were well over the hump and trending in the right direction. On this exact weekend last year it rained non-stop and never got above 92. The final 10 days of August averaged about 92/78 with lots of clouds. By 9/2 we got a legit cool front. It's the interminable, never-improving nature of Summer 2023 that takes the cake. Other parts of the country experience extreme heat waves, but they last 10 days or so, not 3 months. Like, currently there's extreme heat in Nebraska and Kansas. Wichita is hitting 109 today and will be roasting for most of next week, but by next weekend, they'll be back to 90/65. Denver is getting cooked at the moment, but will have highs of 85 or less within a week or so.
  18. Forecast high of only 95 on Tuesday, but otherwise, it appears Houston is on schedule to hit triple digits every other day of August. Tomorrow looks like it could be the hottest day of all. 106! Gonna blow out the previous record for August 20th by at least 5 degrees. Hit 100 once in August 2022. Zero times in August 2021. Most miserable Summer of my life and it just keeps getting extended. Every time there's a glint of hope in the forecast, I check the next day and it takes a turn for the worse. You thought last weekend was hot? We'll here's the exact same thing this weekend. And for good measure, we'll do it again next weekend too. The beatings will continue until morale improves! Current forecast for Saturday of Labor Day Weekend is 99 with a chance of rain. Normally that would be a goddamn disaster, but here I am praying it might come true.
  19. That seems like a rather extreme outlier. Other sites are showing a high of 104-106 next Friday for Austin and have this weekend hotter than next.
  20. Furnace Creek, CA (in the middle of Death Valley National Park) is going to end up getting more rainfall than Houston for the month of August. Seriously, this place:
  21. You wanna get really ticked off, go to the monthly forecast and see what the weather "should" be. 103/80 today. Average is 95/76. Forecast for next Sunday is 103/80 again. Average is 94/74. Gonna be real fun in mid-September when we're still having 100/80 days that should be 90/72.
  22. Jesus, just checked the most current forecast and am now depressed. Latest models all have that gulf system heading towards Corpus We ain't getting shit for relief. Forecast for next week, apart from maybe some slightly lower highs Monday-Wednesday, is just hot as shit again Thursday through next Sunday. Nothing to get excited about through September 1st.
  23. Oh now you've done it.
  24. Quiet, fool! You'll summon one of the "Uhh, it's summer in Texas, it always gets hot" goblins.
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