Fall weather is coming and I'm excited. Maybe even a chance of rain Thursday which is big news since we haven't gotten more than a trace of rain since the first week of June here.

karstopography wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:13 pm Up over 6” of rain today, my gauge and the NWS one 3 miles to the north, and it is still raining.

Unfortunately, A 5-10 mile wide stripe of continuous heavy showers and storms moving north has set up directly overhead. 90-95% of Texas isn’t getting any rain, the remainder is getting a little and we are the 1% of the state, ground zero champions for the most rain.

Weekend looks great, however, 78° for high, 50s at night. We just got to get there without floating away. Two more days with this pattern, maybe the stripe will set up somewhere else tomorrow and Thursday.

It's like we live in different countries. Got traces of rain a few times this week.

I've got the "San Antonio windshield effect" going on all week where it sprinkles a few drops then the wind kicks up and blows dust which proceeds to stick to my windshield. My windshield is literally opaque with dirt in the mornings.

Snow

AKgardener wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:02 pmSnow

I remember my first time there.
It was 30 Degrees F and snowing in September.
I had just left 100F weather in Texas.

Probably the last 80°+ F/26.7°+ C day of the year, and a few months (late March/early April?) into the new one.

If enough gets done, the reward might be a coupla Barley Pops on a warm back porch during the usually abstemious weekdays.

EDIT: Enough got done...'nuf said!

The Gotch

Back to summer here. 70s Monday and Tuesday, 80s today-Fri. I will take it, lol.

Back to wet here, 82 mm/3.28 inches in last 36 hrs, some areas getting more, others that need it missing out.

Whwoz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:54 pm Back to wet here, 82 mm/3.28 inches in last 36 hrs, some areas getting more, others that need it missing out.

Why don't people use centimeters in measurements more often?

We officially got 170 mm of rain yesterday.

More rain inbound momentarily. About 80 mm or so of rain forecasted for today. 60 mm for tomorrow.

With this current weather event whatever is forecasted I figure we’ll get 2-3X that amount based on yesterday’s results. The weather computers or models seem to be missing something. A 100 kilometer stripe of heavy rain is now moving inland off the gulf almost exactly where it set up yesterday and if anything looks more impressive than yesterday’s mass.

We have a 50% chance of rain today from what I heard.
It's hot and humid and sticky with no wind whatsoever.

I hope we get a few centimeters, inches, millimeters or even barley corns would do.
Sometime between now and tomorrow it's supposed to cool off and we have a 90% chance of rain.
It'll probably drop off to 0 by then.

I have some lows in the high 40s forecast for Sat & Sun, but the next couple of days the AC will be on again! The temperature will be in the mid 80s, and more humid, as well. The plants can't figure out what season it is! Soon, I'm going to have to trim back my outside plants, and bring them inside.

Cooler with our first freeze supposed to be on Thursday night... yes tomorrow I will be out picking the tomatoes both ripe and green, potting up my pepper plants that have the nice big green peppers on them and crossing my fingers that we will have a nice Indian Summer for a couple of weeks after this cold spell....
Then Saturday VERY BIG GRIN my granddaughter is coming over to learn to can and all those tomatoes will get put by for this winter.

So far our rain today has been pretty tame as compared to yesterday. The train of rain stretching north south across the region has wobbled 15 kilometers to our east. There’s still a 100 kilometer plus north south band of heavy rain and I hope whatever is steering it keeps it away from us, we’ve had our share.

It has been very dark almost the entire day with a lot of thunder. So far mostly drippy rain with a few brief bouts of moderate to heavy rain. Very wet and warm tropical conditions.

A lot of bright colors showing on radar offshore. Has the look and feel of a tropical low pressure system, but no wind to speak of.

Glad it is October and an approaching cold front will soon shove all this mess back out into the Gulf.

@karstopography it was around 300 mm of rain that caused devastating flooding in Nova Scotia this year. I take note of the amount because the worst we had here has been closer to 100 mm, and that was enough to fill up my catchments with standing water, IDK how the drainage would handle 300.
I'm sure it varies depending on the hydrology of your region, what drainage is in place to handle what are normal conditions or waterways in place that have carved out a way for the ten year or 100 year or longer extremes. Or city engineering if it's high density.
I had the impression that heavier rains seem to be the norm on the continent, more than they are here. Because of the nature of thunderstorms, they seem to put out way more in a short time than the weather systems we usually get.

Because we are not a country that primarily uses the metric system. Was that a real question? I even see you referring to feet and inches, not meters, milage as miles not kilometers. Does this suprise you? It surprises me a bit that you asked, Worth. I am fully educated in metric measurements, used it often, but it has never been our primary system of measurement in this country.

Sue_CT wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:17 pm Because we are not a country that primarily uses the metric system. Was that a real question? I even see you referring to feet and inches, not meters, milage as miles not kilometers. Does this suprise you? It surprises me a bit that you asked, Worth. I am fully educated in metric measurements, used it often, but it has never been our primary system of measurement in this country.

I was referring to people that use the metric system.

worth1 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:42 am

Whwoz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:54 pm Back to wet here, 82 mm/3.28 inches in last 36 hrs, some areas getting more, others that need it missing out.

Why don't people use centimeters in measurements more often?

Hard to say for sure @worth1 , not being around when the system was developed in France. A lot of it has to do with precision and standard defaults I would imagine. Depends upon the area of interest also, some areas use CM as there default, just not the areas that you would be interested in I dare say.

I was just curious as to why someone would say 500 mm of rain instead of 50 cm of rain and so on.
I've seen both used at one time or another.
At one time the US was supposed to go to the metric system completely but it never happened.
What did happen is either the kids weren't taught any systems in school or some just didn't listen.
I'm finding it really difficult to communicate with these people at work of all ages because they can't see the measurements in their mind.
I'm literally having to tell someone to pull off wire about as long as your forearm instead of about 18 inches.
I've told several people to pull off a foot of wire and they pull off three or more feet.
Then when I confronted them in a nice way about not being able to tell what a foot is they think I'm mean.
One the other day said he wasn't any good at math in school as an excuse.
The same idiot that left a hammer on top of a ten foot ladder so when he moved the ladder it fell on his head.
He hat a hard hat on at least.

But I'm off track.
I woke up this morning to a huge downpour.
My estimate is we got about 3 frog feet of rain.

I'm pretty sure mm is used instead of cm because it's more in line with the amounts normally rained.
An inch is what, around 25 mm. That's a substantial amount and a good solid rain.
But lots of times we might get 2 mm or 4 mm, measurable amounts that would be fractions of a cm.
Just checking envcan for yesterday's rainfall - yep it was 0.2 mm. So you'd be getting into deep decimals to measure in cms.
I'm glad we don't use inches, cause that's even worse. What fraction of an inch is 0.2 mm.

bower wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 6:52 am I'm pretty sure mm is used instead of cm because it's more in line with the amounts normally rained.
An inch is what, around 25 mm. That's a substantial amount and a good solid rain.
But lots of times we might get 2 mm or 4 mm, measurable amounts that would be fractions of a cm.
Just checking envcan for yesterday's rainfall - yep it was 0.2 mm. So you'd be getting into deep decimals to measure in cms.
I'm glad we don't use inches, cause that's even worse. What fraction of an inch is 0.2 mm.

Since 1 mm is about 3/64th and the smallest fraction used is 1/128th there is no fraction for 0.2mm.
That's where we use micrometers that measure in thousands of an inch.
Some like some of mine can measure 1/10th of one thousandth of an inch.
That would read .0001.
You will rarely if ever in your life see a set of calipers that read 1/28 I've only used one set that did this.
You won't find it on a ruler because it's to small.
Oddly measuring rain they don't use fractions they use 10tns of an inch, that's the engineering scale where an imperial inch is is broken down into 10ths.
That's the system I use at home on the machines.
Where my adjustment screws have 10 threads per inch making 1 rotation of the dials is 100 thousands of an inch or a tenth of an inch.
The dial is broken up into 100 marks so from one mark to the next is 1 thousand of an inch.
So there ya go you asked for it.