Here's one reason for a mild winter. Note the January anomaly for the north pole.

We've been very careful over the years to keep politics out of our weather discussions. Let's be mindful of that. There is a reason why we have chosen to keep this Weather Forum strictly weather discussion related. That said one of the best examples I ever heard was presented by Dr. Neil Frank. The...

One more item of note. The anomaly of 2015, especially December, and January 2016's recording breaking global warmth should be a concern to the average citizen, especially if you're under 50 years of age. Still waiting on NOAA's numbers for January, but NASA has January at 1.13 Celcius while Dec was...

Still perplexes me why AGW is controversial. Nobody has proven that CO2 is NOT a heat-trapping gas. For about 150 years, the Greenhouse Effect has been studied. 100 years ago Alexander Graham Bell made this observation, "[The unchecked burning of fossil fuels] would have a sort of greenhouse ef...

So far at Camp Mabry in Austin we have only had two freezes of 32 and 31 degrees. Hoping for at least one hard freeze for most of central & south Texas toward the end of February to kill off any residual mosquitos.

It looks like Pali was well below hurricane strength by the time Alex was classified as a hurricane. JTWC had Pali at 70 kts yesterday afternoon though ASCAT indicated no more than 25 kts. Right, but we continue to see anomolous tropical events around the globe during this record-setting El Nino. T...

On a side note.....its official we now have Hurricane Alex in the E Atlantic: HURRICANE ALEX ADVISORY NUMBER 4 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL012016 1100 AM AST THU JAN 14 2016 ...ALEX BECOMES A HURRICANE... ...HURRICANE WARNING ISSUED FOR THE AZORES... SUMMARY OF 1100 AM AST...1500 UTC.....

The Pacific hurricane/typhoon season has been quite impressive. With record warm ocean waters across the globe, including the Atlantic, one wonders what the future will bring.

It appears round #1 of the rains for central & southeast Texas did not materialize as predicted? Which is just fine given all the rain over the last few weeks.

Does it look like the weather will clear in Central and Southeast Texas by daytime on Saturday?

It's not often the 24 hr forecast can be off this much. yes, rain & severe weather was predicted today, but I think it was for later.

srainhoutx wrote:Hays County OEM reports NO damage to San Marcos High School

weird, damage was reported on radio, too.

DoctorMu wrote:She's a bad Cat 5 mama.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floater ... -long.html

Hurricane Hunters are showing a reading of 891mb tonight. If confirmed, Patricia becomes strongest eastern Pacific hurricane on record.

Category 5 based on Dvorak intensity and only continuing to strengthen. The East Pacific has been very active. They have 10 major hurricanes already, which is a record last set in 1992. Yep, record heat in the Pacific Ocean is a big factor in this. El Nino is on its way to being strongest on record...

Area of disturbed weather off the southern coast of Yucatan looking a bit more healthy this morning.

It was 99 degrees at Camp Mabry today. Rain would be nice.

Any idea when we will get a good cold front? No sign of a good cold front through at least mid October at this time. Remember we really did not see a strong cold front last Fall until the entire pattern across the Northern Hemisphere was reshuffled with a Category 5 Typhoon that transitioned to a b...

I saw that the first winter storm watch (Alaska) for the season was issued. Definitely a sign that summer is losing its grip.

NHC looking at a very distant tropical wave, forecast with a 20% to develop over next few days... El Nino is strong, so if this system follows with our pattern over the Atlantic so far, it has little chance, if any. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5 If it travels due west for ...

Dang, more rain? Lake Buchanan still needs it, so I guess if it heads due north from SA we could most definitely put a nail in the coffin of the drought for C. Texas.