Today, the Storm Prediction Center outlooked us for severe weather for Monday:

Let’s first review Sunday’s weather.

Overnight/Sunday – Frost Advisory – Wake up 37°, High 71° read more

Current Official Temp

Watch the cold front’s arrival on last night’s hourly observations:

Saturday – Much Colder, Sunny, Frost Advisory Overnight – High 62°

A west/northwest wind at 14-16 MPH will be blowing, tossing more cold air at us. Winds will die down after the sun goes down. You need a jacket today. read more

As I write this at 8:15 PM, a robust squall line stretches from Austin TX to Indianapolis IN, prompting Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings along the way. Again, the below image is from 8:15 PM: read more

The 20z (that is nerd for 3 PM) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) severe weather outlook has been issued!

For the period beginning now and extending through 7 AM Friday, the Storm Prediction Center’s opinion remains basically the same. read more

The lunchtime Storm Prediction Center (SPC) severe weather outlook has been issued, and through 7 AM Friday, little has changed:

As you can see, we remain included in the “Slight” Risk for severe weather. read more

This morning, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued its severe weather outlook through 7 AM Friday:

As you can see, we are included in the “Slight” Risk for severe weather. We’re in this category because the SPC thinks there is a 15% probability of a 58+ mph damaging wind gust within 25 miles of you, illustrated here on this map: read more

Brief

WED: Upper 80s — 10°+ above normal — Increase in cloud cover — THU: Strong cold front gains strength — Rain, line of strong-severe storms late Thursday night — FRI: Showers and thunderstorms exit by Friday night — WEEKEND: Cooler weekend — NEXT WEEK: Another warmup. read more

Today – Coffee & Clear – High 84°

It’s National Coffee Day. Earlier today, The Intern 2.0 said he’d attempt to drink 10 cups.

Results:

For the record, this is what happens to me when I drink too much coffee: read more

We got this tweet this afternoon:

I’m hoping these dry-weather aided spiderwebs will catch the irritable wasp population we wrote about earlier this week.

Our last measureable (not a “trace”) rain occurred on September 11 (0.02″). For the month, we’ve seen 0.21″, which is 2.84″ less than a normal September. However, we’re still 0.31″ above normal for the year. read more

Three days ago, the major global weather models (and later, some of the regional models) predicted torrential rain for us today. We were, they said,

Regular readers of this website will notice that between then and now, the models have been taking that system that was “meant” for us, and sending it southeastward. Notice the frustration in the tone of this morning’s NWS forecast discussion, which I quote (Note: the NWS writes in ALL CAPS all the time, don’t read anything into that. Just think of a Meg Ryan [as “us”] / Tom Hanks [as “rain”] movie while reading:) read more