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This has been somewhat wicked weather here in Texas. I just spoke with a friend in San Antonio. The storm two weeks ago left them with hail damage – totaled two cars, windows on their house broken, etc. We here in Austin at this house we got no hail.

Last night we had another storm. And again we were lucky, no hail here. Wind, rain, temperature dropped from mid 70’s to 60 and with it came rain. We topped out at a wind speed of 43, and luckily only about half an inch of rain here at the house. And in case you wonder how I come up with this information we have an actual weather station here at the house. It records our temperature, humidity, rain fall, wind speed, etc. Weather even five miles away may be different from what we get.

Other parts of Austin are without power and have downed trees and roads closed. They’re hoping to restore power to them by later today.

To give you an idea of the fickleness of the weather here, weather.com says we are clear weather until Saturday. Saturday we might get another thunderstorm.  Accuweather.com says clear today, then possible thunderstorms Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We’ll see what we get. And as I mentioned, what we get here at the house, may not be what happens five miles away.

Its Thursday and we’ve already have just over 3 inches of rain this week. The good news is we’re also not likely to get any more rain until Sunday. Much as we need the rain, getting a respite from the rain will be nice. There’s been a lot of flooding, creeks are flowing a bit much, earlier this week there were even school closings due to the rain. But the lakes are pretty much full or full. Lake Travis was 102% full on Wednesday, and Lake Buchanan 93%. And Lake Buchanan is still rising. So its been good to have the rain and fill the lakes.

And of course the garden is growing gangbusters. Everything is growing. Its green and lush. And the other nice thing about the weather is it hasn’t been real hot. Normally we would be warmer, but with this rain we have slightly cooler weather. Its still high 70’s, with nights in the mid to high 50’s. But the next couple of days should warm into the low 80’s. But at least its not any warmer than that. 

Okay, the rain came in at 1.45 inches last night, and .14 today. So just over 1-1/2 inches of rain. We have happy plants. Though we do have corn that is blown over. So we did get wind with the rain last night. But we should be clear skies the next couple of nights. Then we just might get rain again this weekend. We’ll see.

Weather had said we would get rain. We’ve been waiting all day for it. at about 10:30 pm it finally arrived. In the 15 minutes or so its been raining, less than half an hour, we’ve had over 1.25 inches of rain and it is still coming down outside. We’ll see what it shows in the morning. But we finally got  rain.

Yesterday we hit 82 degrees outside. Today it has dropped to 50, we’re hoping to make 60. We started with rain around 5:20 AM. I know because it woke me – a bit of lightning and thunder. And so far we’ve had about 1/3 inch of rain (about noon here). The weather forecast says tomorrow should be sunny and around 70. We’ll see. At least the plants are happy. I’d go take some pictures, but its wet and drizzly outside.

Not quite sure where it came from but last night we got wind, and at around 3 AM we got 3/4 inches of rain. The wind blew over pots, plants, and trash cans. Today – clear and sunny. Not as warm, but that’s okay. Today only make 66 degrees, but at least no wind. Though we did have a good 40 mph gust around 1:45 AM. But other than being blown around, the plants seemed to take it okay. No damage I can tell so far.

Earlier this week we hit 90 degrees. For 2 days! Last night we had lightning, thunder, and some rain. Today, Saturday we barely make 60. Tomorrow, Sunday night we have frost and freeze warnings.

Welcome to crazy Texas weather.