Blastfurnace 2023

[Armybrat 40648]

My brother in Georgetown called his son who is vacationing at his Leadville, Colorado house this morning. He said it was 43 there and was putting a brisket on his pellet grill. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19111]

It’s 79 at 7:15 and feels like a nice fall day.  Neither AC unit is running in my house for probably the first time in 10 weeks. 

[Armybrat 40648]

It is 82 here by Round Rock.

Just remembered this story from last year when it said that the City of Austin had improved it’s water system leakage loss down to 6.49 Billion gallons in 2021.

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/austin-water-utility-leaks-plummet-largest-drop-in-nearly-a-decade/

[Fudge Nuggets 19111]

 

[Schulz2.0 28710]

11 hours ago, Armybrat said:

My brother in Georgetown called his son who is vacationing at his Leadville, Colorado house this morning. He said it was 43 there and was putting a brisket on his pellet grill. 

I mean, Leadville is at 10,000 feet.

[Armybrat 40648]

6 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

I mean, Leadville is at 10,000 feet.

Yes, and I wonder if nephew‘s brisket is halfway done yet.

[GreenspointTexas 9546]

Welp, looks like today is supposed to be the hottest day in Texas and Lousiana’s history

[4th&Five 41444]

[gmr548 16427]

anybody wanna tell him? 
Maybe it's slightly different in the Metroplex, but tomorrow most of Texas is heading for yet another record.  Tuesday might actually be a noticeable dropoff.  At least in Central Texas.  10 degrees 'cooler' with decent chance of some small precip.  Our grandchildren will read about this summer one day, but for the fact that all the paper will be torched.  

Our grandchildren will read about this summer as an example of how cool it used to be

[Pato del Muerto 52235]

29 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Welp, looks like today is supposed to be the hottest day in Texas and Lousiana’s history

But my app shows high 90s as highs all next week, so blatant furnace to medium high?

[kevwun 15572]

The hottest day in Texas history so far.

Edited August 27, 2023 by kevwun

[Storm the Field 5268]

Took dogs for a walk around 7:45, actually fairly pleasant. Decent breeze and not too humid. By the end of the walk it had warmed up a good 7-8 degrees and I was pretty damn soaked in sweat. This afternoon is gonna be rough.

Definitely gonna try and take advantage of much  more tolerable mornings and evenings with the drier air rolling through this week. 

[Surly Bevo 24686]

Only supposed to be in the upper 90s in DFW today. Doesn’t look so promising down in CTX

Looked at next Saturday. 100-102 around kickoff. Start hydrating now.

[jimmyjazz 45429]

KXAN says 107 F with 50% chance of rain.  That should make for an interesting humidity bomb.

[Trey3216 15321]

On 8/25/2023 at 6:59 PM, Gatorubet said:

might be a good time to buy a bunch of cases of your favorite wines. Not sure grapes are gonna love the heat.

The ‘23 vintages will actually be incredible.  Stressed grapes make a great wine.    

[yoladu 4063]

23 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

The ‘23 vintages will actually be incredible.  Stressed grapes make a great wine.    

[Eastwood 4394]

2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

 

She needs to clear the debris from the bottom and probably hose off the coils.

[yoladu 4063]

101F at noon. Oh no. 

[closetohumping 17354]

53 minutes ago, Eastwood said:

She needs to clear the debris from the bottom and probably hose off the coils.

I'm gonna hose off her coils alright

[Fudge Nuggets 19111]

The longer range forecast I just looked at has 100+ here in the Houston area through Sept 7 then on Sept 8 it drops down to 89.  Gee, I wonder where the line from prediction based on current data and conditions to historical average happens?  It's a real god damn mystery.

[Trey3216 15321]

All I know is my rain chances in Waco started at 24% earlier this morning and are sitting at 91% now.  
 

I will Andy Dufresne the hell out of my front yard this afternoon.  

[Macanudo 12917]

1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

 

I will Andy Dufresne the hell out of my front yard this afternoon.  

You're going to take it from the Sisters?

[closetohumping 17354]

[South Austin 51976]

That got me.

[Storm the Field 5268]

1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

All I know is my rain chances in Waco started at 24% earlier this morning and are sitting at 91% now.  
 

I will Andy Dufresne the hell out of my front yard this afternoon.  

Yeah, future radar has a patchy line of fairly strong storms popping up from San Angelo to Lufkin around 5:30. Looks like the lakes might actually get a little action this evening.

Meanwhile, Houston's on pace to shatter the previous all-time high. Already at 106 and it's only 2:15. We're a couple degrees ahead of Thursday's pace. The air out in front of this front is getting superheated. 

[South Austin 51976]

Edit: Shit wrong thread.

Edited August 27, 2023 by South Austin

[Brisketexan 104228]

1 minute ago, South Austin said:

C’mom, Nicole. It’s too hot for serial murder.

You say "serial murder," I say "sacrifice to the rain gods."  Kill away, Nicole....kill away.

[InkaUtexas 25289]

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You say "serial murder," I say "sacrifice to the rain gods."  Kill away, Nicole....kill away.

So now an advocate? But for the better communal good right? I mean, if we all get rain and Rainey street only loses a few clients, win for the greater good? 

[Brisketexan 104228]

1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

So now an advocate? But for the better communal good right? I mean, if we all get rain and Rainey street only loses a few clients, win for the greater good? 

 

[FartingMonk 3606]

Plot twist.  The murderer is Nicole and the bodies are buried deep in South Austins mom

[PTINS 3438]

5 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Yes, and I wonder if nephew‘s brisket is halfway done yet.

My experience living in Colorado is that smoking brisket is no bueno.

I had a smoker a welder made for me in Oklahoma, and it couldn’t get enough air to keep the fire going. Evergreens are good for building houses, not so good for smoking meat.

How I miss the way the days cooled down in August!!! I never got used to swimming up there; the evaporative cooling when you got out of the polls was about the coldest I ever got up there.

[Post Oak 20174]

Just had a little thunder at the house in Hewitt. 

[GreenspointTexas 9546]

109 in houston with a feels like of 117 and its not even 3 pm. One more degree and we set the all time record for hottest day ever

[ztejas 43193]

25 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

109 in houston with a feels like of 117 and its not even 3 pm. One more degree and we set the all time record for hottest day ever

Where are you getting those numbers?

[PTINS 3438]

No… No…No…No!!!

2 things happened in the 60’s that made Texas livable; Air Conditioning and Liquor by the Drink.

Don’t Mess with either of them.  I’m still pissed that we had a National 55 MPH speed limit.

It is our inalienable right to enjoy somebody else’s refrigerated air when we go to HEB, Lowes or Walmart. It’s bad enough we have to go there, let’s not make it worse by having to sweat when we get there. 

HEB is not a deli counter. HEB having doors on the meat counters would be a mass casualty event during the holidays.

I agree that incoming business’  should pay some type of fee to support utility infrastructure. Age old argument that if everybody pays the incremental cost, who pays for the base cost?

[Post Oak 20174]

91 in Hewitt. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26181]

On 8/26/2023 at 12:12 PM, After irth said:

Becker is my go-to.  Love that Viognier.  Do you know of any others that are worth a damn?

In addition to Becker I like Bent Oak, Infinite Monkey, and Messina Hof.. That said, basically all Texas Viogniers are at least very good and many are world class. I've never tasted a bad one. 

[Okie State 3747]

Literally zero relief in sight. Fuck this bullshit.

[Anastasis 23329]

This is fuck. 

[Storm the Field 5268]

NOLA just hit 104, breaking their all-time record by 2 degrees. God, can you imagine how it smells in the Quarter today?

[ztejas 43193]

109 in Austin. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11776]

3 hours ago, closetohumping said:

I'm gonna hose off her coils alright

I’d rheem her out.  

[InkaUtexas 25289]

111 in San Marcos both at the house and local weather station. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11776]

9 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

111 in San Marcos both at the house and local weather station. 

112.8 here in south Austin.  Feels like 117 lol.   

[kevwun 15572]

The sun was terrible at 10:00 am this morning when I was doing something in the yard.

[Gatorubet 30023]

2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You say "serial murder," I say "sacrifice to the rain gods."  Kill away, Nicole....kill away.

[Brisketexan 104228]

Just went with the boy to pick up some stuff from Lowe’s. Got in his SUV parked on the street…temp readout showed 120.

Driving around cooled it off to 109. This is fucky. My “project” is to build a new firewood rack (because the only two temps we have are “broil alive” and “freeze to death,” gotta be ready for both). Yeah…we won’t be doing shit outside today.

[Bozo_Casanova 26181]

Fuck everything 

 

 

btw- it’s 106 at Mabry right now. Must be the concrete

Edited August 27, 2023 by Bozo_Casanova

[Pato del Muerto 52235]

7 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Fuck everything 

 

 

btw- it’s 106 at Mabry right now. Must be the concrete

Must be because you live near a runway

[Js1 84995]

46 minutes ago, kevwun said:

The sun was terrible at 10:00 am this morning when I was doing something in the yard.

Self immolating?