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Storm the Field

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  1. Less than a week until hunting season officially begins, at least North of I-10. This time next weekend, this thread better have pics of dove laying on tailgates, dogs, and beer cans. Arguably a good thing that it's not this weekend, as there'd probably be a a bunch of heat-related hunting deaths. Old men just keeling over out in sunflower fields. I've got a big hunt coming up for South Zone opener 3 weekends from now. No current plans for Labor Day at the moment, so thinking about making a quick run to the deer lease and seeing if I can luck into some white wings on Saturday. Saw plenty while we were driving around out there 2 weekends ago, but there hasn't been water in the "watering hole" for 2 years now and there aren't really any proper fields (it's timber property, not a farm/ranch), so there's no particular spot to set up in. Would have to get lucky and catch some flying over the clearing around the camp-house area. Beats sitting at home, I guess. Just remembered I need to go swing by Academy this weekend and renew my super combo.
  2. Good lord, Twitter blue checks might be even worse discussing weather than politics, if that's somehow worse. Post last night from Houston weatherman saying he's sorry to report a possible all-time record high on Sunday. First 3 paid, boosted replies I saw: Crazy health lady: "Sorry, but this is pathetic. I love the heat. Makes me want to sweat and detox my body." Crypto bro with NFT profile pic: "Settle down, it's been this hot before, going be ok." MAGA meme account with Tucker Carlson pic: "Sorry? Are you God and control the weather?" Bang up job, Elon!
  3. Punishing 48 hours ahead, but I spy a couple of 99/75 days with lower humidity next week. It's a start. Beats 106/81.
  4. ^^^ *neck of the woods
  5. Got about 2 minutes of rain last night in my neck and it's not as oppressively muggy as usual this morning. #smallvictories Today (~101) and tomorrow (~103) don't appear too extreme, but looks like Sunday will be a redux of last Sunday, just an absolute scorcher around 107 or so. After that though, I'm not seeing much above 100 on the long-range forecast (Houston area). Decent rain chances Monday afternoon and then a little front of drier air rolls in afterwards. Should still have highs about 100 but humidity/heat indices will be lower and early mornings and late evenings should be significantly more pleasant WED-FRI.
  6. Part 2 delayed until March 15 now b/c of the strike. God damnit.
  7. Ended up getting real, actual rain that lasted approximately from 8:40 to 8:42. Got my outdoor furniture kinda wet but that's about it. Oh well, that's 2 minutes more of rain than I expected to get when I woke up today.
  8. In the midst of the record-tying hottest day in the history of Houston, some crazy storms popped up around Kingwood about 90 minutes ago and headed SW towards town. Unfortunately, they went just north of my hood. Got a couple of mocking sprinkles and that was it. Future track making it look like we may get a 2nd more widespread round later this evening. Fingers crossed, but I ain't optimistic.
  9. I'm laying down a marker, so get your mocking gifs ready and bookmark this post to shame later. The next 100 hours or so will be the hottest stretch of the remainder of the year for Houston, and today, Thursday 8/24, will be the hottest day until next Summer.
  10. 1-8 in extras. Jesus Christ.
  11. Looks like some outlying areas north and south of Houston got some sprinkles, but I saw nary a drop inside the Loop today.
  12. For the first time in ages, the sky is not clear blue and it's actually what one would call completely overcast in Houston. Normally, I would see this outside my office window and presume that it's about to start dumping, but not this year. The next time water actually begins falling from the sky, and does so for at least 10 minutes, will be the next time I'm convinced it's going to rain.
  13. Hey at least you're still getting in some lake time. Some very good friends of ours here in Houston have a place on Lake Travis. They typically hit the road and spend at least every other weekend of the Summer at the lake, if not more often than that. They pretty much gave up and have hardly gone at all this year. Floating dock has been sitting on dry land for god knows how long at this point. Boat is essentially just a fancy ornament sitting under the driveway slip.
  14. Anybody else's weekends gotten really worthless during this stretch? Drinking and swimming are about the extent of "stuff to do." Too damn miserable to do anything healthy or productive outdoors. House projects piling up, haven't touched my bike in months, dogs rarely get to go on long walks.
  15. Inka and 34: A bunch of friends have a house booked for a Guys Trip/40th BDay weekend right down on the river by Don's the weekend after Labor Day. Any idea if we'll actually have water to lounge around in?
  16. Think that's likely from the extreme heat levels yesterday and getting very little time to cool down . It was still in the 90's at bedtime and still 85 at 5:00 a.m.
  17. 2023 has now officially overtaken 2011. Worst Summer Ever, we did it folks!
  18. More consolidation: Permian Resources buying Earthstone for $4.5B. https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/companies/article/14297917/permian-resources-to-acquire-earthstone-energy PRC will now have close to 400K acres between TX and NM.
  19. 10:02 and the ambient temp is 92 with a heat index of 105.
  20. Got close to matching the all-time record at the IAH monitoring station. Previous record was 109 on 8/27/11. Currently 107.6, which is a new record for August 20th, but doesn't look like we'll top that. Heat index has actually come down from a Summer 2023 record of 116 at 4:15 to 111 currently.
  21. Well, there's an extremely uncommon weather event at the moment. More relevant is that once the hurricane passes and things go back to "normal" in Death Valley, it will be about the same temperature as Austin. Forecast highs at the Furnace Creek Visitor's Center (the place where tourists go take photos next to the temperature gauge) for the rest of August is ~104 every day. That's more or less indistinguishable from the Austin forecast, if not a few degrees cooler actually. The hottest place in the United States, a literal desert 190 feet below sea level, will be hard to tell apart from most of Texas.
  22. One run short of an epic comeback. 2023 Astros in a nutshell. We are 17-20 in games decided by a single run. 1-7 in extras. I was at MMP Friday night. Place was electric when Diaz came up with 2 on and 1 out in the 9th. Within 5 seconds the game was over. GIDP so quick and easy the crowd seemed confused for a good 10 seconds, not realizing it had ended. Perfect encapsulation of the season. For lack of a better word, the "magic" we seemed to possess from 2017-22 just isn't there.
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