2023 Rain Thread

[troph 24810]

46 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

 

these rains are so good for that fishery and for Lake Travis (eventually).  happy happy happy.

[troph 24810]

 

 

Let's see what happens...

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2023 by troph

[AUS-97HORN 11779]

LCRA gauges that bracket me all show 2.2-2.5 inches these past 24 hours and close to 4.5-5 inches in the last 4 days....   much needed !

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2964]

Sun is coming out in northern SA. This pushed through quicker than I thought. At least we got something.

[texasdago 7573]

[InkaUtexas 25951]

Another great round in San Marcos. The river might flow again. Of course it is now full of hippy and dog shit, but damn it was low. 

[troph 24810]

23 minutes ago, texasdago said:

it was flood stage this morning where it says 10,215 in white.

[dieucla98 2942]

57 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Sun is coming out in northern SA. This pushed through quicker than I thought. At least we got something.

There's more coming, no? Forecast shows another two windows of >50% chances - tomorrow afternoon and Sunday night.

Not over yet!

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

41 minutes ago, texasdago said:

my little math says that 5700 acre-feet of water passed through that station.  lake lbj is 112,000 acre-feet capacity.  

[dieucla98 2942]

9 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

There's more coming, no? Forecast shows another two windows of >50% chances - tomorrow afternoon and Sunday night.

Not over yet!

In fact... Here comes another wave that's building up as it approaches Austin. Or at least not being murdered by the dome.

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2964]

13 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

There's more coming, no? Forecast shows another two windows of >50% chances - tomorrow afternoon and Sunday night.

Not over yet!

Oh definitely some good chances. I was just surprised how fast/far it pushed east- models didn't show that yesterday.

Here's to getting every drop we can before the cold front hits.

Edited October 26, 2023 by Wilcox Cummingtonite

[Biff Tannen 45691]

Dumping in Hyde Park again

[Blotto 23525]

6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Dumping in Hyde Park again

I guess I wont complain, but most of it is just running off into storm drains at this point. We gotta shift this shit west. 

[Deej 76800]

10 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Dumping in Hyde Park again

Good for you, but is it raining?

[troph 24810]

8 minutes ago, Blotto said:

I guess I wont complain, but most of it is just running off into storm drains at this point. We gotta shift this shit west. 

yes please.

[troph 24810]

coulda been a lot better for Lake Travis. LBJ looks good to the west / northwest so the drier spots for LBJ may be mitigated to an extent. Lake Travis watershed was mostly forgotten with the exception Marble Falls area and to a much lesser extent out near Fredericksburg. any in flows will have to come from LBJ for the most part.  Buchanan had some killer spots but I expect that water to stay there.

 

could

 

[texasdago 7573]

I mean, a lot of it is getting soaked up.  Yeah, it would be better west but I'm not complaining.  We just had another cell.

[utee94 15825]

Everybody needs the rain.

Once the ground is completely saturated, then ideally it would fall into the Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan catchment zones.

But we don't get to choose so at the very least, this week, we can celebrate an important victory over the Austin FF.

[crash_davis 23113]

28 minutes ago, Blotto said:

I guess I wont complain, but most of it is just running off into storm drains at this point. We gotta shift this shit west. 

It's still good as this freshwater is needed in the coastal bays, in our case Matagorda Bays. The shrimp, fishlings, and oysters, especially the oysters, thank you for it.

Edited October 26, 2023 by crash_davis

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4 hours ago, Ten Bears said:

I have 4 umbrellas but I have never bought an umbrella in my life.  I have no idea how I came to possess them.

I'm picturing your avatar saying that, so thanks?

[HenryJames 66079]

Fellas, are we sure that rain is actually good?

[crash_davis 23113]

Hey, the sun is peaking through the clouds! Its never going to fucking rain again!

[dogbreath 434]

Rain gauge shows a smidge above 1.5” in 78130. 
 

It was glorious even if the rain god’s prostate got in the way of a good soaking. 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Hey, the sun is peaking through the clouds! Its never going to fucking rain again!

Actually glad to see it. My area was in the bullseye and needs to dry out a bit. 

[HOOKEM4 5037]

My place out by Junction has had 24" of rain this year (annual average 22"). My house 14" (annual average 33.5"). We got .5" from this event, I hold the real force field! 

[utee94 15825]

Don't look now, but Lake Travis is up 1/4 foot since noon today!

[troph 24810]

15 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Don't look now, but Lake Travis is up 1/4 foot since noon today!

3 inches! Now that's exciting!

llano is already coming back down, but it would be nice to get a foot or two out of this that would be something.

Edited October 26, 2023 by troph

[HenryJames 66079]

51 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Hey, the sun is peaking through the clouds! Its never going to fucking rain again!

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2964]

Another round coming. 

[South Austin 52515]

10 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Another round coming. 

[Guest]

Yeah, tomorrow jumped from 40% to 70%

[InkaUtexas 25951]

Bring it on!  

[troph 24810]

35 minutes ago, troph said:

3 inches! Now that's exciting!

 

That was a dick joke for all you super serious rain nerds.

[CleverNickname 1311]

35 minutes ago, troph said:

3 inches! Now that's exciting!

llano is already coming back down, but it would be nice to get a foot or two out of this that would be something.

Oct 26 2023 9:23AM

Short term lake level forecasts for Buchanan and Travis:

Buchanan
A rise of 1-2 feet is expected over the next 24-48 hours.

Travis
A rise of 1-2 feet is expected over the next 24-48 hours.

https://hydromet.lcra.org/riverreport

So not a lot but maybe the ground is saturated and the cold front will bring its own rain.

[troph 24810]

8 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:

Oct 26 2023 9:23AM

Short term lake level forecasts for Buchanan and Travis:

Buchanan
A rise of 1-2 feet is expected over the next 24-48 hours.

Travis
A rise of 1-2 feet is expected over the next 24-48 hours.

https://hydromet.lcra.org/riverreport

So not a lot but maybe the ground is saturated and the cold front will bring its own rain.

That’s awesome. The levels are low enough such that the lake will rise quickly initially. once the surface widens out it takes a lot more.

Man if we could get this kind of system again in a few weeks. That would be amazing. Sunday Monday looks promising but not 7-10 inches amazing. 

[jimmyjazz 45963]

You can't rise 30 feet without rising 1-2 feet first.

-- Mack Brown

[Hate 20108]

Here is a snapshot of the ground moisture levels in the Highland Lake basins.  It's till pretty dry in some places out west.  This round of rain will help, but like Troph said, we need another round just like it next week.

 

 

[Hate 20108]

@YGIFS , here is my weather report suite. Shit got real at the Hate household. As in real real nice! I’m sitting on the porch ripping one hits, but no bourbon sadly. I am listening to a sweet sweet Looks Like Rain. It’s from 5/26/77 at the 46:40 mark!



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That makes 5 inches for the week!!

[atomheartbevo 89683]

Lake Travis is creeping up.

https://isthelakefullyet.com/#volume

 

[Hate 20108]

More on the way too.

[troph 24810]

Woot woot!!

 

 

[troph 24810]

That’s muleshoe bend. Water was moving fast in the video. This jet skier said he scooted up to MM47 and water was coming in pretty fast. That’s Turkey bend pretty far up. Only 1-2 feet but it’s good to see the flow anyway.

 

 

Edited October 27, 2023 by troph

[HOOKEM4 5037]

Up two feet and still more coming down. Love it.

[Hpara759 1778]

 

Edited October 27, 2023 by Hpara759

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[jimmyjazz 45963]

Does anybody know how far behind Austin rainfall was for the year through September?  Say, at Camp Mabry?  I'm curious to see if this is making much of a dent in the deficit.

[atomheartbevo 89683]

2 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

Up two feet and still more coming down. Love it.

Couple of more feet and it'll be at 40% capacity.  Fingers crossed for tonight.

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

man.  it's depressing to look at this and see how far back you have to go to get a 2 foot jump in 2 days.  

 

 

https://travis.uslakes.info/Level/

[Hate 20108]

What a difference a day makes. The soil for the lake basins is now primed. If we could just get another round like we just had, it could put an even bigger dent in the deficits.