buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
We got about an inch of snow yesterday, then a little melted. Just enough for a white Christmas-ish. You can still see a bit of grass poking through, but I'll take it.
I just checked the weather for tomorrow. Around 60F, mostly sunny, with a light breeze. Every year I hope for a little snow, but the last time was in 2011 and it hasn't even come close since then.
You can always drive to the mountains.
It is 61F and (gasp) humid here in Houston at 5AM.
PF, I hit a few of those in the rental car when I was up there last month. You have to go a couple-hundred miles West of Dallas to find them in Texas.
BTW, it is 33F in Pampa, TX, and 66F in Brownsville, TX right now.
CD
If I left the front door open and the back patio doors, they'd be in my living room. As it is, I hung a tumbleweed gate in the north yard to keep the bulk of them out of the backyard. They were packed in so tight last spring that it took me 3 days to get them all out.
Still no snow, but it's cooling off and the clouds are gathering.
I drove through West Texas in a press vehicle -- biga$$ MercedesSUV -- and got into a wind storm. Between the blowing dirt and the tumbleweeds, that Mercedes needed to be buffed out when I brought it back. I'm just glad it wasn't mine.
Those things are nasty. The ones I dodged in Wyoming last month were less than 2 feet in diameter, which is probably about average for tumbleweeds. They were also pretty spread out. The ones I hit in the windstorm in West Texas were huge, and there was no way to dodge them.
Where I live, we don't have tumbleweeds... just hail. To be honest, I'm thinking maybe I'd rather deal with tumbleweeds.
CD
If I left the front door open and the back patio doors, they'd be in my living room. As it is, I hung a tumbleweed gate in the north yard to keep the bulk of them out of the backyard. They were packed in so tight last spring that it took me 3 days to get them all out.
Still no snow, but it's cooling off and the clouds are gathering.
11F with wind @ 7 mph, to get to 25F with a high wind of 8 mph. I can handle the cold, but that wind.
It is the wind that makes you feel so cold. Not the temperature. You don't see folks ducking the cold, only when the wind picks up.