2023 Rain Thread

[Guest]

Lol. Remember that El Nino thing that will bring all the rain? Well, about that...

https://www.kxan.com/weather/weather-blog/could-pdo-mess-with-our-wet-el-nino/

El Niño has the greatest impact on our weather during the winter (December-February) in Central Texas. That’s when we’re most likely to see wetter than normal conditions. In some years a strong El Niño has made for a very wet fall, but in those years (like in 2015) PDO was positive.

This fall, El Niño and PDO may just work to balance each other out.

 

Of course. 

[Auto Driller 2506]

This morning the Houston Heights received its first real rain since June? July? I don’t know. But it was glorious. I can’t wait to complain about mosquitoes.

[UT_OB1 2225]

We got 1/2”, and I’m now sitting at 2” total for the week. 225 and 146 station reporting an 1”. 

[Tailgate 3024]

In Dallas for the weekend. Nice storm came through early morning. Need this in ATX soon.

[utee94 15869]

Zero measurable rainfall at my house in Austin since June 21.

Normally I'm happy for others, but fuck all y'all.

[Bookman 4642]

Texas beats Bama and now it's raining in north San Antonio!

[YGIFS 19452]

What a time to be alive!  No rain in sight for us for a few more days.  But at least this morning as I'm watching highlights of the game with the kids, isn't sweat soaking miserable.  But man, the rain chances, while something has to happen physically, aren't looking as great later this week as we'd hoped.  And Thursday looks like it's gonna touch 100 degrees just for shits 'n giggles.  I gotta go out and handwater tonight, we're in the last water tier of billing for another 5 days and I thought we could coast through but too many dying spots.  And I got a Monterrey Oak that needs some extra care.  

If anybody already has it easily on call, pos rep for posting a comparision.  But while 2011 was hotter than this overall, I think we at least had more rain thanks to a coulpe of little drenches we had in August.  

[jimmyjazz 46287]

KXAN future radar has a giant blob of rain sinking south towards Austin . . . and disintegrating.  Of course.

[Guest]

I'm afraid its another "complicated setup." The official 7-day precip forecast shows us on the edge (as usual). Officially, this shows 1-2" for NW Austin, less as you go south.

 

KXAN shows rain, but not major chances each day:

 

Wunderground showing less than 1/2":

 

I take this to mean we get 0.25" and call it a week.

[Dnaguy 12124]

Weatherman and the cloud cover this morning in SA....

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2023 by Dnaguy

[texasdago 7587]

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3038]

 

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3038]

For those who still want to believe:

[atomheartbevo 89851]

4 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

For those who still want to believe:

[texasdago 7587]

It'll happen... I got it covered.

[utee94 15869]

1 hour ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

For those who still want to believe:

[Guest]

Still holding steading with 1-2" in my neck of the woods in Austin. But if it's just a few miles off, it could be half that. This 7-day precip forecast however looks great for the lakes. 

 

Some nice numbers out in the basins this morning:

[jimmyjazz 46287]

"Great".  lulz

[HenryJames 66192]

Sprinkling in 78722. Could just be piss.

Edited September 13, 2023 by HenryJames

[Guest]

[HenryJames 66192]

Not piss, imo.

[Mighty fine 169]

Pretty good steady shower going on in 78729 for the last half hour

[Biff Tannen 45751]

Wunderground radar showed rain covered all of austin around 6:30am. Dry as a bone in Hyde park. Wtf. 

[Native Horn 3516]

Yep, was raining steadily in Southpark Meadows when I left for the office. Got to Mopac/360 and streets dry.  

[AUS-97HORN 11824]

I am getting a very light but continuous rain in 78757 for about 20 mins.

would probably only be considered a trace, but hey, we need anything we can get.

[jimmyjazz 46287]

My location in 78731:

 

Edited September 13, 2023 by jimmyjazz

[texasdago 7587]

Found wet streets and puddles.  Forecast is going UP for rain.  Fingers and manbuns crossed, Austin.

[Guest]

0.10" -- three times what I've had in the past three months.

[troph 24914]

.1 this morning, I’ll take it. 

[Bevo 13603]

I don't know how many inches - I just said it was big and my wife disagreed. Still it made getting to work hard this morning. The car was all over the road and it was wet everywhere.

[gofuckyourself 8388]

16 minutes ago, Bevo said:

I don't know how many inches - I just said it was big and my wife disagreed. Still it made getting to work hard this morning. The car was all over the road and it was wet everywhere.

Tell your wife it's not the depth of the precipitation it's the force with which it pounds down ... or something.

There was a surprising lack of terrible traffic this morning but I also left early, not because of the rain since I had no idea, but thankful for small favors.

[Bevo 13603]

1 minute ago, gofuckyourself said:

Tell your wife it's not the depth of the precipitation it's the force with which it pounds down ... or something.

There was a surprising lack of terrible traffic this morning but I also left early, not because of the rain since I had no idea, but thankful for small favors.

Well, you could tell it has been awhile. It just smelled different when the door opened. It was like spring.

[MissingInAction 25216]

Took the dog on our first multi mile walk/jog in 4 months. We were rained upon and it was glorious.

[NorthLoop 14254]

11 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Well, you could tell it has been awhile. It just smelled different when the door opened. It was like spring.

We're still talking about your wife, right? 

[Blotto 23585]

7 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

We're still talking about your wife, right? 

Its like a Massengill ad up in here. 

[Biff Tannen 45751]

21 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Took the dog on our first multi mile walk/jog in 4 months. We were rained upon and it was glorious.

Same

[skilesare 74]

I know we need the rain, but my trip to Austin has me a bit:

[NorthLoop 14254]

1 minute ago, skilesare said:

I know we need the rain, but my trip to Austin has me a bit:

[Biff Tannen 45751]

Moar coming tomorrow!

[Brisketexan 105463]

3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Moar coming tomorrow!

I'll believe it when I am actually outside like this, and not a moment sooner:

 

I mean, I may skip the "crawl through a mile of shit beforehand" part, but then again, metaphorically, isn't that what this summer has been?

[MissingInAction 25216]

15 minutes ago, skilesare said:

I know we need the rain, but my trip to Austin has me a bit:

[jimmyjazz 46287]

I see small wet spots -- hey to high school -- but LCRA Hydromet says nada.  I hate Austin.

[MissingInAction 25216]

Well I can hear the mosquitoes fucking now, but totally worth it.

[texasdago 7587]

I may need to check my echo-y rain barrels

 

[Storm the Field 5303]

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.

[texasdago 7587]

Rain chances in Austin going up for tomorrow.  Oh I know is that the rain has worked absolutely magic in Austin and it feels fantastic right now. 

Edit: taking a lunch time walk and my phone is not telling me that it needs to cool down. Finally 

Edited September 13, 2023 by texasdago

[UT_OB1 2225]

Clouds and thunder just north. Better come this way

[MissingInAction 25216]

*narrator* The rain would not come their way.

Edited September 14, 2023 by MissingInAction

[Anastasis 23471]

Working on the third slow mounting drizzle rain session of the day. Got damn this is beautiful. 

[Biff Tannen 45751]

Raining again in Hyde park!