Comments on: West Texas Summer Heat http://daviddrummond.com/blog/2007/08/07/west-texas-summer-heat/ Storm Chasing Adventures with David Drummond Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: David http://daviddrummond.com/blog/2007/08/07/west-texas-summer-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-49 David Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:35:51 +0000 http://daviddrummond.com/blog/2007/08/07/west-texas-summer-heat/#comment-49 Just to show how much west Texas weather can change, we only verified about 2 days of that heat. Upslope winds that backed around to the SE kept us in more moisture and kept the temps down, while just a couple hundred miles north (toward you Steve) and to the east were hitting 100F+. Now we are going to see the effects of the tropical storm in the Gulf as it drags lots of moisture up into Texas with temps in the upper 80s to lower 90s for us here. We still have not officially hit 100 in Lubbock. Just to show how much west Texas weather can change, we only verified about 2 days of that heat. Upslope winds that backed around to the SE kept us in more moisture and kept the temps down, while just a couple hundred miles north (toward you Steve) and to the east were hitting 100F+.

Now we are going to see the effects of the tropical storm in the Gulf as it drags lots of moisture up into Texas with temps in the upper 80s to lower 90s for us here. We still have not officially hit 100 in Lubbock.

]]> By: Steve Miller TX http://daviddrummond.com/blog/2007/08/07/west-texas-summer-heat/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Steve Miller TX Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:42:47 +0000 http://daviddrummond.com/blog/2007/08/07/west-texas-summer-heat/#comment-45 2007 is the all-time record for the wettest first 7 months: http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/first_79081___article.html/murphy_texas.html Pretty darned amazing. I certainly look forward to possibly having a good second season this fall...we deserve it by golly. ;-) I did some extensive personal research and found that the fall season upper air pattern is typically a big trough in the eastern CONUS leaving us in a prevailing NW flow aloft. So, moisture becomes the main problem for us typically in the fall along with repeated cool fronts sweeping through. With the mid levels of the atmosphere warmed over because of all the northern hemispheric convection all summer long, it's also tough to get good lapse rates. However, thats just a typical pattern. In such an atypical year, anything can happen! :-) 2007 is the all-time record for the wettest first 7 months:

http://www.brownsvilleherald.c.....texas.html

Pretty darned amazing. I certainly look forward to possibly having a good second season this fall…we deserve it by golly. ;-) I did some extensive personal research and found that the fall season upper air pattern is typically a big trough in the eastern CONUS leaving us in a prevailing NW flow aloft. So, moisture becomes the main problem for us typically in the fall along with repeated cool fronts sweeping through. With the mid levels of the atmosphere warmed over because of all the northern hemispheric convection all summer long, it’s also tough to get good lapse rates.

However, thats just a typical pattern. In such an atypical year, anything can happen! :-)

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