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Storm the Field

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  1. Good work Stanek. 4 batters faced, 4 outs.
  2. Gonna hit ~107 around 4:30 and stay above 100 until sundown at 8:00. Not gonna get below 90 until after midnight. Oh and looks like we get to do this exact same thing next Sunday too. If this year is not just some miserably El Nino-centric anomaly and this is in any way what future years have in store, I can't do this shit for ~90 days every year. I'm packing the fuck up and leaving Texas. So long lifelong friends and family. Try and come visit sometime! Hell, if this Summer keeps on spitting out triple digits and worsening drought much past Labor Day Weekend, I'm gonna have to seriously think about escaping until daily highs at least drop to 95 or less. I'm running out of patience something serious.
  3. Glad I don't have peacock so not gonna spend my Sunday watching us get pantsed by the M's again.
  4. Bout to enter the Thunderdome. Today looks like it will be the hottest day of the entire year in Houston, possibly hitting 107. Slight relief early part of the week then 104+ every day from Thursday to Sunday. Week before Labor Day looking like ~101 every day but I'm sure that will be adjusted higher. We live in hell. Literall hell.
  5. Rags lost, so we're not losing any ground so far, but Mariners have their noses in our ass and a few hours away from being in the middle of the wild card race. So fucking annoying. Their team is the hottest player on the planet, 8 beer leaguers, and a bunch of procedurally-generated pitchers and they're beating everyone.
  6. This team is good, but cursed. Anytime an Astro gets hot, they get sick/hurt. The ideal 2023 Astros team has taken the field maybe 20 out of 100 games. We'll end up winning 90 games, which ain't bad, but that's it. Shitty luck finally caught up to old-school, hard-headed manger. God, I hope this post ages like room temperature milk.
  7. https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/houston/year-2022#may It got hotter than usual the first weekend in May and stayed that way for a few weeks. Late May and early June were average. Blastfurance really kicked into gear around the 2nd week of June, and then went into overdrive for a 30-day stretch from around 6/20 to 7/20, but we're talking mostly days around 99-101, not 105-107. Only hit triple digits 8x in July 2022, and never longer than 4 days in a row. Even at its worst, we'd catch a breather occasionally. The hottest 4-day stretch of the entire summer was 7/9-12 when it was 102, 104, 103, 101. We're going on like 5 straight weeks of that shit with more to come. August 2022 was pretty average, hot and rainy. By this point, we were well over the hump and trending in the right direction. On this exact weekend last year it rained non-stop and never got above 92. The final 10 days of August averaged about 92/78 with lots of clouds. By 9/2 we got a legit cool front. It's the interminable, never-improving nature of Summer 2023 that takes the cake. Other parts of the country experience extreme heat waves, but they last 10 days or so, not 3 months. Like, currently there's extreme heat in Nebraska and Kansas. Wichita is hitting 109 today and will be roasting for most of next week, but by next weekend, they'll be back to 90/65. Denver is getting cooked at the moment, but will have highs of 85 or less within a week or so.
  8. Forecast high of only 95 on Tuesday, but otherwise, it appears Houston is on schedule to hit triple digits every other day of August. Tomorrow looks like it could be the hottest day of all. 106! Gonna blow out the previous record for August 20th by at least 5 degrees. Hit 100 once in August 2022. Zero times in August 2021. Most miserable Summer of my life and it just keeps getting extended. Every time there's a glint of hope in the forecast, I check the next day and it takes a turn for the worse. You thought last weekend was hot? We'll here's the exact same thing this weekend. And for good measure, we'll do it again next weekend too. The beatings will continue until morale improves! Current forecast for Saturday of Labor Day Weekend is 99 with a chance of rain. Normally that would be a goddamn disaster, but here I am praying it might come true.
  9. That seems like a rather extreme outlier. Other sites are showing a high of 104-106 next Friday for Austin and have this weekend hotter than next.
  10. Furnace Creek, CA (in the middle of Death Valley National Park) is going to end up getting more rainfall than Houston for the month of August. Seriously, this place:
  11. You wanna get really ticked off, go to the monthly forecast and see what the weather "should" be. 103/80 today. Average is 95/76. Forecast for next Sunday is 103/80 again. Average is 94/74. Gonna be real fun in mid-September when we're still having 100/80 days that should be 90/72.
  12. Jesus, just checked the most current forecast and am now depressed. Latest models all have that gulf system heading towards Corpus We ain't getting shit for relief. Forecast for next week, apart from maybe some slightly lower highs Monday-Wednesday, is just hot as shit again Thursday through next Sunday. Nothing to get excited about through September 1st.
  13. Oh now you've done it.
  14. Quiet, fool! You'll summon one of the "Uhh, it's summer in Texas, it always gets hot" goblins.
  15. A wise man once said the "theoretical" odds of plugging in a USB correctly are 50:50, but the "actual" odds a million to one.
  16. Simpsons did it.
  17. Getting a brief reprieve is better than no break at all, but seems a little cruel to give us a 12-hour teaser tolerable conditions on a weekday and then follow it up with 4 of the hottest days of the entire year through the weekend.
  18. Some interesting data in a CCA email I saw this morning regarding trout populations after the February 2021 freeze, and how they've recovered since. An interesting nugget from the article said that, based on data from previous freezes, it takes 3 full years for the trout population to recover from a major die-off, but even longer for the size and age distributions of those fish to get back within historical averages. So, if you're like me and fishing has been fairly slow the last few years, and you tend to catch a lot of undersized young-uns when they are biting, there ya go.
  19. From TPWD this morning:
  20. Went kinda viral yesterday. Got posted in a bunch of FB groups and a huge crowd showed up yesterday evening.
  21. SCW did a post years ago compiling the last 125 or so years of Houston weather records and the average day on which we get our first real front (what they call "Fall Day", defined as a low temp of 65 or less) is September 18th. Over that span, Fall Day has come as early as 8/30 and as late as 10/13.
  22. $500(ish) is the norm around here in NW Florida Cool. From online research, was seeing anywhere from 450-700.
  23. Native American Black Metal? Sure, why not. I dig it. Sounds to me a bit like if High on Fire was a Black Metal band.
  24. Anyone got an idea of how much a spray-in bedliner is gonna run me?
  25. This thread is making me crave an end to this god-awful summer more than ever. Haven't touched my bike in over 2 months. Love to ride, but really only have time to go on long rides on weekends, and I'm just not willing to do so when it's 102 and 80% humidity. One day I'll be able move out to where the weather is more hospitable and there are actual trails to ride and I'll probably become obnoxiously into cycling. Until then, I'm stuck riding on pavement in the city for the handful of months when it's actually enjoyable.
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