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Storm the Field

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  1. Hot and muggy AF again. No lows below 77 through Sunday. Forecast for First Day of "Autumn" on Saturday is 96/78 and humid as shit. Average temps on Sept 23rd are 88/68, so about 9 degrees warmer than it should be. "Less bad" weather next week, but still no sign of any cold fronts making it down through the first week of October. In fact, currently not a single number starting with a 6 anywhere on the 15-day forecast. Anything after 10/13 would be a new record for latest first cold front. Still a long ways to go, but setting a new record becomes easier to imagine with each passing day.
  2. Despite the pleasant weather the last few mornings, it seems almost a lock that this will be one of the years where we have to wait until well into October to get our first "fall cold front" (i.e. sustained temps at or below 85/65 for a couple days) in Houston. Over the last 125 years, 9/17 has been the average day of arrival, with 10/13 being the latest. Last year it showed up on 9/27. GFS models seem to think there might be a mass of cool air moving down towards Texas around 10/5, but that's way too far out to have any kind of confidence. Until then, gonna continue to feel like Late Summer through the first few days of October.
  3. Another highlight of the trip was that Dad informed us that he's been building a new stand for me and my brother's deer lease. Just sent us some progress pics from his workshop earlier this morning. Will try to remember to post some photos when he finishes up later this month.
  4. Got pretty lucky on the weather. Only rained on us for about 20 minutes during the Friday afternoon hunt. Stayed dry the rest of the weekend. Still pretty damn hot in South Texas though. Did a ton of sweating out in the fields this weekend. All in all, a solid trip. Friday afternoon was the best. All 3 of us more or less limited out, though couldn't find a few that we downed. Field was planted with knee-high goatweed, and if you took your eyes off where you marked a downed bird for even a second, you'd lose it. Lost a couple over the fence line too. Think we ended up with 38 in the truck on Friday. Rest of the weekend was slower, but still productive. Ended up with about 65 breasts when it was all said and done (out of probably 80 shot down). Saturday afternoon was the only true disappointment. Still some birds, but very sporadic and no real pattern to where they were coming. Obligatory tailgate pic from Friday:
  5. Pretty decent stretch of weather coming up next week. Still a bit warmer than I'd like to see, but a couple of sunny, 92/72 days on the board, and nothing over 94 at the moment. Need some more rain though.
  6. Got in a cheap day hunt out near Sealy last Thursday. Decent amount of birds, but the field we were hunting didn't have anything planted, so they were just passing over with no intent of landing anywhere nearby, which meant flying very high and fast. We ended up with 7 dove on maybe 40 shots. I'm not a great shot, but my buddy is a competitive clay shooter and even he was averaging probably 5 shots/hit. 4 proper hunts scheduled in the Alice/Kingsville area this weekend. Looks like we might catch some passing showers, but doesn't appear that it'll be a total washout or anything. Fingers crossed.
  7. More details out today:
  8. Warm and extremely soupy here in H Town once that first round of rain moved through and the sun came out. Looks like we're about to get another round of showers though. God knows we need it. Keep the rain coming, just tell the sun to take a day or two off. Don't need the steam bath treatment.
  9. Get ready for Mandela's release from prison, the Exxon Valdez spill, and the reunification of East and West Germany. It's officially '90 again!
  10. Woke up to "pretty good" rain chances around 50% in Houston today, but those have already petered out to around 30% or so. Tomorrow and Friday are our best shots at getting some legit storms, but even those are less ironclad than they were as of last night. 90%->65%. Latest NOAA expected precipitation for my neck of the woods is around 2.5 inches between today and Saturday night. I'm taking the under.
  11. Uh, no. Maybe for folks in the Panhandle or Far West Texas, but the DFW, Austin/SA and Houston surly contingent still have plenty of unpleasant days ahead. Still seeing plenty of highs in the mid-90's forecast through the end of the month and we haven't even sniffed a legit cool front yet ( i.e. 2-3 days in a row with lows of 65 or less). We're basically just now catching up to where temps should be in late August. 2022 and 2021 threads both lasted until early November. We're probably done seeing any triple digit scorchers, but, based on recent precedent we've got at least a half dozen stints ahead where it's 8-12 degrees above average for several days.
  12. WTI walking up the driveway, getting ready to knock on the door of $90 this morning.
  13. 82-62. Winning record secured. Most games over .500 all season. I think 92-70 would clinch a playoff spot and most likely be good enough to win the division. 94-68 would more or less be a guaranteed lock on our 6th AL West title in 7 years. Neither Seattle, Texas, nor Toronto currently projected to finish with more than 90 wins. No one else in the AL has even a faint hope of a wild card. Let's do 95-67.
  14. Hitting just .250 this month, but the OPS is up around .950 and has 15 RBI in 9 games.
  15. Abreu gonna somehow still end up with 90+ RBI despite a .240 AVG and OPS below .700
  16. Not until we get our first legit cool front and highs consistently stay 90 or less. Current forecast has us still hitting 95 almost every day of the week after next. That's a solid 5 degrees above average.
  17. It's noon and sunny in Houston and it's not punishingly hot outside. Baby steps.
  18. Houston area doesn't look like we'll get much of what anyone would consider a "cooldown," but today is the only day on the 15-day forecast with a triple digit temp although tomorrow may possibly hit 100. The following 2 weeks have an average daily forecast of roughly 94/74. Still a good 3-4 degrees warmer than average for the time of year, but not historically awful and breaks the streak where we've consistently been 8-10 degrees above average the past 40 days or so. It's better than nothing?
  19. Haven't y'all heard? It's summer in Texas, it's supposed to be hot, herp de derp.
  20. Flour tortilla = breakfast tacos, accompaniment to any kind of mexican breakfast, fajitas Corn tortilla = street tacos, enchiladas, tostadas, homemade tortilla chips
  21. Melissa Wilson, one of the Houston morning show hosts, posted a major thirst trap throwback pic this morning.
  22. Haven't seen any in the flesh yet, but there are plenty of signs at my lease that there are some very large hogs. Was out there exploring this past Saturday, getting more familiarized with which roads lead where. Walked down to the bone-dry "watering hole" and passed some relatively fresh hoof prints in the sand that were way too big to be a deer. Walked around to the somewhat cleared out area behind the pond and there were some rather large crap piles, also definitely not from a deer.
  23. 16. You forgot the two in the 9th.
  24. Grabbing a burger for lunch at Tap Room. Just not sure I wanna sit in there for 3 hours.
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