Blastfurnace 2021

[texhorn 351]

Hottest day of the year so far here in 78633

[InkaUtexas 26175]

Yeah, today was pretty rough in 78666. First day I felt it was borderline brutal. 

 

 

[ztejas 43547]

Milk was a bad choice. 

[Radical Larry 28664]

[Updawg 2286]

Finally worked up the courage to mow the yard a little while ago. Hot as shit and no breeze in 78749

[Storm the Field 5303]

Looks like a decent cool front is heading to the deep south Thursday-Saturday, but passing just to our east. No luck this time. 

 

As a consolation prize, we should be getting some significantly lower humidity towards the end of this week. Seeing dew points in the 50's and 60's for much of Texas. Should make for some pleasant mornings and evenings (but still quite hot most of the day).

[Biff Tannen 45750]

Got out to the trail head at 8am this morning and enjoyed a nice 4.5 mile hike out at Doeskin Ranch.  As I was heading back in a couple of hours later, there were Dads and groups of kids just starting up.  They gonna fry.

[Blotto 23585]

On 9/6/2021 at 10:15 AM, Storm the Field said:

Looks like a decent cool front is heading to the deep south Thursday-Saturday, but passing just to our east. No luck this time. 

 

 

As a consolation prize, we should be getting some significantly lower humidity towards the end of this week. Seeing dew points in the 50's and 60's for much of Texas. Should make for some pleasant mornings and evenings (but still quite hot most of the day).

Noticeable today for sure. Used to the heat index being up in the hundreds.  I could get used to 22% humidity. 

 

 

[Guest Lobo]

Feels nice outside right now.  Not great, but pleasant enough for a cocktail or three. 

Next few days look to be hot as balls again though with no rain chances in sight until early next week.  Lawn is not amused.  

September pro tip---be sure to get up in your attic and flush your HVAC lines with a cup of vinegar per each unit.  Mold has been accruing all of this moist summer and we got another month of heat left to go.  Check your drip pans too for any moisture accumulation.  

[Post Oak 20281]

First hint of fall the last two mornings.

[hookemATL 11927]

10 hours ago, Lobo said:

Feels nice outside right now.  Not great, but pleasant enough for a cocktail or three. 

Next few days look to be hot as balls again though with no rain chances in sight until early next week.  Lawn is not amused.  

September pro tip---be sure to get up in your attic and flush your HVAC lines with a cup of vinegar per each unit.  Mold has been accruing all of this moist summer and we got another month of heat left to go.  Check your drip pans too for any moisture accumulation.  

You should have seen the gross shit I blew out of my HVAC lines at the beginning of summer. Looked like alien cum and fake peanut butter. 

[phdhorn 6224]

Cooler mornings is because pretty much for the first time since early June, dewpoints have been < 50% (that means the air is drier, cools down easier).

3-4 more days of hanging around the 3-digit mark, longest streak all summer of course.  Then early next week temps drop 10° at least, and that's it for the 100's this year (maybe 1 outlier).

[South Austin 52632]

10 hours ago, Lobo said:

September pro tip---be sure to get up in your attic and flush your HVAC lines with a cup of vinegar per each unit.  Mold has been accruing all of this moist summer and we got another month of heat left to go.  Check your drip pans too for any moisture accumulation.  

I use bleach, and do this about once a month or so.  Learned the hard way when the accumulation caused a backup.

[South Austin 52632]

2 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

3-4 more days of hanging around the 3-digit mark, longest streak all summer of course.  Then early next week temps drop 10° at least, and that's it for the 100's this year (maybe 1 outlier).

[Guest Lobo]

3 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

You should have seen the gross shit I blew out of my HVAC lines at the beginning of summer. Looked like alien cum and fake peanut butter. 

So the peanut butter was fake but the alien ejaculate was real?  You sound like you throw great attic parties.  That's a rare thing these days.  

After flushing my HVAC lines last week, this week I decided to keep the "cleansing" movement going and cleaned out all the sink J-traps in the house.  Nobody told me that my daughter dumps her uneaten half-bowl of cereal down the drain each morning before school while I'm getting the little one ready for preschool.  Just three weeks into the school year, you'd be amazed at the sludge created by rice krispies, cheerios, and kashi.  That stuff doesn't break down in the disposal, it just sits in the narrow pipes unable to make it to the wider main line and expands with each passing water usage.  Then whatever else you're trying to dispose of gets mixed in with it and I can only describe the vile shitmud as seeming like someone had murdered Snap, Crackle, and Pop and slowly disposed of their bodies in my sink like in "The Conversation."  I'll take any blowing out any HVAC line over this.  

Beautiful morning.  Played hoops with the oldest before school and didn't break a sweat for the first time since last March/April.  We stop and give thanks.

[Trey3216 15377]

1 hour ago, Post Oak said:

First hint of fall the last two mornings.

Even at night.  Sun goes down earlier and by 8:30 it's only 83-85 instead of 94 or so.  Can actually walk at night and in the morning now.  

[Post Oak 20281]

2 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Even at night.  Sun goes down earlier and by 8:30 it's only 83-85 instead of 94 or so.  Can actually walk at night and in the morning now.  

I was mad at myself for not getting up this morning and going for a walk.

[Trey3216 15377]

1 minute ago, Post Oak said:

I was mad at myself for not getting up this morning and going for a walk.

Daughter has a cough right now, or we'd have hit the road from 5:45-7.  Will wait til she goes to sleep tonight (as long as the Cowboys game doesn't get interesting).  

[Storm the Field 5303]

For Houston, this evening should be decent and then looks like we'll get 2 really nice days Friday and Saturday before wet weather returns Sunday through rest of next week. May actually barely drop into the 60's just before sunup on Saturday. 

[kevwun 15935]

It figures the day I'm making a couple of briskets would be the last hot day before a week of cooler weather.

[ChickenSandwich 9855]

Amazing outside. Fuck yo furnace. 

[ztejas 43547]

Good God. Out late tonight. Dare I say there's a chill in the air. Cooler outside than inside right now.

Don't hold back, Autumn. 

[InkaUtexas 26175]

Yeah, looking at the 10 day makes me scared we will be 105 for Thanksgiving. Highs in the 80's? In mid September? I will accept that.

[Wally Pryor 5263]

Damn, it feel nice out this morning. 

[InkaUtexas 26175]

Working on the patio today and yep, it is real nice. Love the 10 day forecast. Rain and cooler temps. 

[phdhorn 6224]

If this batch o' Gulf rain does make it into the ATX area next week, even an inch, kiss goodbye absou-fucking-loutely to our Sept. mini-summer (100's).  I guarantee it personally.

If we don't get the rain and the ground stays dry, always a possibility of one or two more three-digiters.  But with this summer and the pattern this year, I'm still saying that our last 100° day this week (whether earlier or the next 1-2 days) will be our last one for this summer go-round.

We're approaching hard math where the N. Hemisphere is simply too "indirectly" sunned to heat up.  I think BTW latest 100° day evah in ATX is Oct. 2.  Avg. last 100° day - oops! - Sept. 1.  Tell 2021 to read the the got-damn manual.

So fuck you heatwave, move the fuck over, earth maths is taking over.

[Guest Lobo]

I think I took Earth-Maths with Troy Kimmel. 

[irishtexan 11524]

Ran the town lake MoPac-I35 loop this morning and it was fucking awesome. 

[texasdago 7586]

This morning it was 65 in our hood.  Glorious.

[Okie State 3848]

66 degrees this morning? I'll take it.

[InkaUtexas 26175]

Yeah, pretty damn nice morning. Loving the 10 day forecast for central Texas. 

[miguelito 11314]

[Storm the Field 5303]

With just 7 days of "Calendar Summer" left to go, the Blastfurnace is coughing and wheezing out its final breaths. One last hot weekend ahead for everything West of I-35 while Houston will be wet and muggy in the mid-80's until further notice. Dallas area looking quite pleasant in the near-term.

GFS Models still yet to pick up signs of any kind of significant cool front in the 15-day outlook. The wait continues.

[UT_OB1 2225]

1 hour ago, Storm the Field said:

With just 7 days of "Calendar Summer" left to go, the Blastfurnace is coughing and wheezing out its final breaths. One last hot weekend ahead for everything West of I-35 while Houston will be wet and muggy in the mid-80's until further notice. Dallas area looking quite pleasant in the near-term.

GFS Models still yet to pick up signs of any kind of significant cool front in the 15-day outlook. The wait continues.

Highs in the low 80s here in Seabrook. Practically fall weather without a front even if a little muggy

[Storm the Field 5303]

Yeah, it's definitely cooler today in Houston but supposed to warm up to high 80's this weekend and gonna stay wet for a while. Looking like a bit of a wait until our next day that is all 3 of (i) high < 85, (ii) dry and (iii) sunny.

Edited September 15, 2021 by Storm the Field

[Okie State 3848]

Feels pretty damn good this evening.

[Storm the Field 5303]

On 9/15/2021 at 12:12 PM, Storm the Field said:

GFS Models still yet to pick up signs of any kind of significant cool front in the 15-day outlook. The wait continues.

And just like that, models are starting to pick up a noticeable cool air mass making its way to Texas sometime middle of next week.

Current forecast for next Thursday is 81/61 in Houston, 88/58 in Austin, 84/60 in Dallas.

Not gonna get my hopes up too much until I see what the models say on Monday. 

[South Austin 52632]

Damn near needed a jacket this afternoon in Austin.

[Hate 20146]

There is a cool front on the way next week.  We may get down to the upper 50's next Thursday night here in SE Texas, which means it may be even cooler for y'all in CenTex.  The dreaded Blastfurnace is dead after this week, even if it really never got going this summer anyway. 

[ztejas 43547]

19 hours ago, Hate said:

There is a cool front on the way next week.  We may get down to the upper 50's next Thursday night here in SE Texas, which means it may be even cooler for y'all in CenTex.  The dreaded Blastfurnace is dead after this week, even if it really never got going this summer anyway. 

Don't worry - we have some exceedingly warm weather for the next 5 days until that front hits. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19227]

meh, our forecast for the next week has a high temperature of 91.  If that’s exceedingly warm then Texas is not the place for you.

[gsoda3 3283]

8 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

meh, our forecast for the next week has a high temperature of 91.  If that’s exceedingly warm then Texas is not the place for you.

our high today is 97.

[Guest Lobo]

Monday & Tuesday will be at/above 100 with the heat index.  Looks nice after that though.  then again, that's what we said 2 weeks ago about this week.  

But looks like the Autumnal Equinox will actually mark the start of Fall for once in Austin.  First day of ACL is looking lovely.  88 and partly cloudy.

[ztejas 43547]

43 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

meh, our forecast for the next week has a high temperature of 91.  If that’s exceedingly warm then Texas is not the place for you.

You're right. I forgot everyone lives in the same city in Texas. 

[hornian 5229]

4 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

our high today is 97.

Try 99.

https://twitter.com/NWSSanAntonio/status/1438982406623617027

[Deej 76961]

4 hours ago, Lobo said:

Monday & Tuesday will be at/above 100 with the heat index.  Looks nice after that though.  then again, that's what we said 2 weeks ago about this week.  

But looks like the Autumnal Equinox will actually mark the start of Fall for once in Austin.  First day of ACL is looking lovely.  88 and partly cloudy.

Prepping the kayak and fishing gear. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19227]

4 hours ago, ztejas said:

You're right. I forgot everyone lives in the same city in Texas. 

High in Austin for the next week is supposed to be 98 degrees.  If that’s exceedingly hot then Texas isn’t the place for you.  I wonder how nature kept this big secret from supposedly longtime residents that it gets fucking hot here.  Some of you act all surprised about it.  

Almost as surprised as not getting rain from a hurricane when you live 200+ miles away from the coast in the wrong fucking direction.

[Blotto 23585]

5 hours ago, ztejas said:

Don't worry - we have some exceedingly warm weather for the next 5 days until that front hits. 

I disregard the 10 day forecast the first couple of times it shows the first fall cold front coming through austin in Sept/Oct. Because those fronts disappear like a fart in the wind every goddamn time. 

[Deej 76961]

It's getting close. I've brushed a garbage bag full of hair out of my Husky daily for the past several weeks. 

[Guest Lobo]

I saw a guy walking his Saint Bernard in our park a couple weeks ago, one of those 105* days on our lunch break (peak sun).  

the dog  looked like Martin Short in the canteens scene in "Three Amigos"   All I could picture to take away my sadness for the dog was George Bluth in prison..."I have the worst fucking breeders."  

Tailgating gonna be damn hot tomorrow.  Better bring extra ice.  Days are short enough now, the second half entry onto the field out of the new Longhorn tunnel should look badass.

Still would be nice to get a spot of rain in the next week.