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Texas is like a small country with a climate gradient. Houston and east texas are hot and muggy like the South, and it progressively turns hotter but drier the
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Texas is like a small country with a climate gradient. Houston and east texas are hot and muggy like the South, and it progressively turns hotter but drier the farther west you go (with some plains wierdness up in the panhandle).
Hence the biggest thing about this heatwave, from my perspective, is not that its over 100F. Its always over 100F in the summer in DFW. But its very humid and over 100F in DFW, for a long stretch. That humidity is not normal here, and its not sustainable.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoWeather-wise, what's weird about the Panhandle?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoI have never lived there, but from what I have seen its even windier than DFW, and they get even more rapidly vacillating extremes than we do, with more severe thunderstorms, sudden cold snaps and more frequent hail. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Norther_(weather) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Norther_(weather) AFAIK Austin, Houston, El Paso and such don't get such rapid temperature changes, especially in the fall.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoAh. They hooked up the thermostat to /dev/random.
- jeffbee 3y agoTexas, like California, has extensive but empty territory. The question is whether the populated areas of Texas have survivable weather. In the last week, wet bulb temperatures over 90º have persisted from Tallahassee to San Antonio.
- hotpotamus 3y agoLifelong San Antonio resident here - we actually hit an all time high heat index of 115 this year only to exceed it by another 2 degrees a couple days later. I don't know why people are so anxious to move here (everywhere surrounding Austin has pretty much exploded), but I'm hoping that the real estate prices can hold up until I retire and then I'm moving somewhere north.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoReal estate agents never advertise bad weather. I learnt this lesson on the Florida coast.
- scoofy 3y agoI grew up in Austin, and I used to make fun of it when I was in high school (post-dell, but pre-boom). I would just joke about how, in the summer, people here would move between air-conditioned facility in air-conditioned pods, like the entire place becomes some sort of approximation of reality like disneyland or something. I left Texas for college, and tried to come back briefly a couple times, but after the city rejected any-and-all attempt to create a non-automotive transit system, and built an express lane on the highway as a solution to traffic, I finally quit for the Bay Area because of the weather and urbanism. I still think central Texas is a fine place to live if you don't sunburn much and can stand the summers. The springs that flow out of the aquifer are pretty magical, and the land between San Antonio and Austin really makes me nostalgic.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Texas is like a small country As an aside, Texas not very small, as a country (median of the worlds 194 countries is 768k km^2, Texas is 696km^2.)
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIf we're being pedantic, the median country can be small as well. Country size isn't a normal distribution. One might consider most of them small.
- activiation 3y agoIt surprised me how desertic Texas is