Fall in SE Texas...

[Newtosavage]

This is how SE Texas announces the Fall season... At least it will be a Northeast wind that day. LOL

 

[Mojave]

So when does summer really end. Here in Las Cruces NM fall is mid September to mid November. Water in the tap is almost cold enough to drink without ice right now.

 

[Newtosavage]

So when does summer really end. Here in Las Cruces NM fall is mid September to mid November. Water in the tap is almost cold enough to drink without ice right now.

Usually around mid to late October, we can expect no more 90+ degree days. But sometimes we will have 90's into November. With the humidity, it truly sucks. This summer has been the longest period of mid-90's to 100+ days I can ever remember, going all the way back to May.

I can't tell you how many times I've left for a hunt in Colorado in October and it was 95 degrees and two weeks later when I got back it was still 95 degrees.

It didn't used to be this way. When I was growing up, we had cool weather in mid-Sept. and by October, our bowhunting camps were chilly.

Time for me to get out.

 

[thegrouse]

I tell everyone summer runs from April 1st to Thanksgiving.

 

[Reburn]

Its very typical for my roses to bloom during christmas and to wear just underoos under my waders duck hunting. Gets cold in Jan and Feb. Spring is in March.....Summer starts easter....

 

[Button]

It’s warm down here in Matagorda

 

[Pony Soldier]

Just you have a reference - it's been colder than 30 F every morning for the last 4 days. Daytime temps less than 60. My well water hurts your teeth to drink it. Enjoy your heat.

 

[displacedtexan]

SETX will always be home.

But I'm sure glad I don't live there anymore.

 

[Yoder]

Usually around mid to late October, we can expect no more 90+ degree days. But sometimes we will have 90's into November. With the humidity, it truly sucks. This summer has been the longest period of mid-90's to 100+ days I can ever remember, going all the way back to May.

I can't tell you how many times I've left for a hunt in Colorado in October and it was 95 degrees and two weeks later when I got back it was still 95 degrees.

It didn't used to be this way. When I was growing up, we had cool weather in mid-Sept. and by October, our bowhunting camps were chilly.

Time for me to get out.

I lived in Austin TX in 1992. I ran my AC in December. It's Texas. It's hot there. It's always been hot there. Nothing bad is happening. Didn't you have record cold the other year?

 

[Reburn]

I lived in Austin TX in 1992. I ran my AC in December. It's Texas. It's hot there. It's always been hot there. Nothing bad is happening. Didn't you have record cold the other year?

last couple years have had pretty warm dec followed by very cold Febs.

 

[Newtosavage]

Just you have a reference - it's been colder than 30 F every morning for the last 4 days. Daytime temps less than 60. My well water hurts your teeth to drink it. Enjoy your heat.

Nah, I'll trade you in a second.

 

[Newtosavage]

I lived in Austin TX in 1992. I ran my AC in December. It's Texas. It's hot there. It's always been hot there. Nothing bad is happening. Didn't you have record cold the other year?

Yes, yes, we've all run our AC in December. Yes, it's hot here. But it's hotter longer than it was when I was a kid. That's a well documented fact.

One week of record cold doesn't change the fact that six of the top ten hottest summers on record have occurred in the past 11 years. This records from 2011 have now been topped four times since then.

It's not the same-old same-old. This is new for those of us who've lived in TX since the 70's.

You can also see how "cool" the 1970's actually were. I mean, we knew we were cool, but there's the proof! ha, ha.

Warmest
72.2	2017
72.1	2020
72.1	2012
71.9	2011
71.9	1962
71.7	1933
71.5	1965
71.5	1927
71.4	2016
71.4	1954

Coolest
65.8	1976
66.5	1983
66.6	1979
66.7	1978
67.1	1970
67.4	1997
67.5	1977
67.6	1903
67.6	1894
67.7	1973

 

[Button]

I’m ready for some chilly air. The humidity never really goes away here on the coast. But it makes a big difference when it’s not so humid.

 

[Newtosavage]

I’m ready for some chilly air. The humidity never really goes away here on the coast. But it makes a big difference when it’s not so humid.

Agreed. The older I get, the less I can deal with humidity. When I lived in Roswell, it got just as hot but you really didn't feel it, and the shade there always felt 20 degrees cooler. Here, you step in the shade and hardly notice. LOL I gotta get out of this sauna. The Californians can have it.

 

[Wags]

Sounds like CA as well, minus the humidity. I cannot wait to move away from this heat.

 

[Newtosavage]

Let the record show I'm not the one that brought up climate change here. LOL I just stated facts.

All I came here to do is complain about this bs SE Texas weather...

 

[Yoder]

You must not vote then?

You have to pick what you think is less evil.

 

[Button]

Agreed. The older I get, the less I can deal with humidity. When I lived in Roswell, it got just as hot but you really didn't feel it, and the shade there always felt 20 degrees cooler. Here, you step in the shade and hardly notice. LOL I gotta get out of this sauna. The Californians can have it.

Don’t California my Matagorda Lol

Winter here is pretty good. Not hot, hunting season, excellent trout fishing under lights

 

[Newtosavage]

Don’t California my Matagorda Lol

Winter here is pretty good. Not hot, hunting season, excellent trout fishing under lights

Yup, those three weeks of the year are tolerable.

 

[Newtosavage]

I just assumed so you got me there. All the things I talked about are pretty mainstream ideas. I didn't make them up in a bunker. Powerful people are rarely motivated by the good of mankind, usually its money and more power.

Equally true on both sides of every issue.

Nah, I was just b*tching about how hot it is down here compared to what I remember as a kid. Usually by mid-Sept, we would have had an actual cool front and by October, it was bowhunting weather. I can remember freezing my butt off in a tent in East Texas in October many times in the late 70's and early 80's.

This riding mid-90's to 100's from the beginning of May through mid-October is just not any fun anymore.

Our first 95+ degree day this year was May 6 and our last will be in October sometime, although we've had 95 degrees at Thanksgiving before.