Winter is almost over in Texas!

[WyandotteTX]

Ok I am going to rant or expound here for a bit. I will first off say that I am a life long Texas(40 years). I have lived in many different areas of the state....far west(Lubbock), northwest(albany), central( austin,waco, hico), south texas(beeville). In my life long experience of being here I have come to one conclusion about the weather in this state......it is extreme in its own way in every part of the state. Whether its the cold of west Texas, the storms and flooding of central Texas or the hurricanes and wind in south texas they are all extreme. The temperatures are no different.....I have seen it so hot and dry that it was unbearable in every sense....hottest Ive ever seen was 118 personally. The coldest I have seen it is dependent on where I was. In Lubbock I experienced -3 with windchills about -25, near my hometown in central Texas 1983 is the longest, coldest spell I have ever experienced. We had temperatures that didnt get above freezing for almost 6 weeks from the end of December thru February. The coldest it got during that time was around 5 degrees. The coldest feeling temperatures were in Brownsville when my brother lived there in 1990 and it got down to 17 and killed most of the citrus industry down in the Valley.
My point is there is no pattern to Texas weather.......it will be different from year to year, month to month. I have seen it be a 100 degrees in early March and then snow in early April.
Like the old joke is about Texas weather, if you dont like what it is right now just wait 5 minutes and it will change.
And yes, I am a weather dork. I will fully admit it. I think its a gland or something my family has....haha....My older brother has it worse than the rest of us..he is an actual Meteorologist for the National Weather Service.
Anyway, sorry for the ramblings...but hey I guess this is the best place to post such a thing.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Texas is the only place I've ever lived that it can drop 40 degrees in half an hour.

Personally, looking at the weather, I've concluded that the panhandle of Texas may have the worst weather on Earth. While it doesn't get hurricanes, it get blizzards, blinding heat, dust storms, followed by rain that makes mud fall from the sky; tornadoes, drought, flood, lightning storms and everything in between. I think the people who live there must be some kind of tough, 'cause the climate looks killer.

 

[nivtup]

mom'sfolly :

followed by rain that makes mud fall from the sky.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I kid you not....sometimes the dust blows as far as central Texas and we get muddy rain....why anyone would live there is beyond me.