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Storm the Field

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  1. A lot of Buffet songs are what I'd consider "gimmicky", but listened to Come Monday a few times this weekend and that's just a perfect 1970's tune. Watched an interview where he played it on Letterman in the early 1980's and described it as "the song that kept me from killing myself while living in a Howard Johnson in Marin County."
  2. SCW seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
  3. Elon says he estimates his damages caused by ADL to be "half the value of Twitter", which he says amounts to upwards of $22B. JFC, people used to look at this guy like some revolutionary genius. He massively overpaid for a social media site b/c he's an insecure man-baby, completely fucked it, and is now blaming THE JEWS for it being a bad investment.
  4. Clocked a total of 11 minutes of rain today in my neck of Houston. 8 minutes of moderate rain around 2:00. 3 minutes of heavy rain around 5:00. Maybe 1/5 inch total. Still, by far, the most rain I've had in 2 months.
  5. Ding Dong the VIX is dead.
  6. WTI up $6 on the week to $86, highest price level of 2023 to date.
  7. Yeah, that's the kicker. It's not extreme, record-setting hot any more, but the current long range forecast goes out to 9/15, and is basically 99/78 every day through then. Average temp range this time of year is 93/72. By two Fridays from now, it "should" be 91/71. We're going to spend the first half of September consistently 7-8 degrees above average. We typically see our first legit front that drops lows into the mid-60's for a day or two sometime between 9/20 and 10/1. At this point, just getting 4-5 degrees closer to normal temps would be a huge win. As in, some 94/74 days, which would be still be hotter than average, would be very welcome.
  8. ~40% rain chances for Greater Houston area Sunday-Wednesday. I swear, if it pours down 2 miles west or south of my house again and I barely get a drop...
  9. Damnit, hunting season starts tomorrow, college football gets going in earnest this weekend. This is the time of year that I mentally categorize as "Fall." It sure as shit ain't gonna feel like it any time soon though.
  10. It's the last day of the year that isn't hunting season!
  11. This is literally the "bitch about the hot ass Texas summer" thread. You're bitching that people are bitching in the bitch thread, genius.
  12. Aside from that maybe that one Wednesday 2 weeks ago, this was the nicest morning of the last 3 months. Felt great, and that northern air just has a different smell to it. Smelled like Fall for a few fleeting hours. Gave myself a small treat and popped into the coffee shop next to my gym and grabbed a proper coffee to drink on my back porch when I got home. Dogs just laid on the ground next to me and looked pleased as shit. It was a good morning.
  13. 76 and counting.
  14. Some rather weird days in that chart. High of 99 on 9/24, but a front apparently passed through and dropped the low to 59 that evening. The next day was 105.
  15. Paywalled article in Bloomberg yesterday about how retailers are finally putting stuff on sale again. Clothes, shoes, appliances..etc. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-27/discounts-make-a-comeback-as-shoppers-get-picky-about-spending?sref=QEebQnRf#xj4y7vzkg Anecdotally, I have noticed a lot more "40% off sitewide" deals from apparel brands lately.
  16. Sidenote, but the scene in Arrested Development where Franklin gets bleached in the washing machine and GOB uses a proper, English accent to say "You've ruined the act, GOB" is arguably the most laugh out loud bit in the entire series.
  17. Yes, I've been wrong before and will continue to make faulty predictions. I don't have a crystal ball and can only go on what the forecast models are showing. That's why I usually say "should."
  18. Taking a gander at the latest 15-day forecast: Good news: I think we're just about done seeing any temps over 101. No more insane heat blasts like last Thursday or Sunday. Bad news: Apparently we'll be stuck at 100/77 in perpetuity. In a normal year, by 9/12, the average temperature range for Houston is 91/71, and the average high and low starts a steady pace of dropping 1 degree every 4.5 days. Not saying this is gonna happen, but if we continue on a pace of being consistently 8-9 degrees above average, we won't be done with highs in the 90's until around 10/18.
  19. From SCW today. I was talking about this same thing with some friends yesterday, funnily enough during the absolute hottest part of the day before the front started rolling through overnight. The blastfurnace still has plenty of fuel left, but it seems like after 2 straight months, we may have at long last finally escaped from the extreme, unprecedented range and are back into something closer to "upper 10th percentile of a regular summer." Like, these 100/78 days ahead would usually be some of our hottest, late July/early August days in a normal summer.
  20. NOLA just hit 104, breaking their all-time record by 2 degrees. God, can you imagine how it smells in the Quarter today?
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. But seriously, Denver looks like a paradise the next few weeks based on the current forecast. Enjoy it, you lucky fuckers.
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