whoze bin messin' wif da weather ?

[jetmex]

Sun is finally out!  After a couple of weeks of gray and rain, the sun is shining.  Severe clear and 76 right now.  I'll enjoy it as much as I can before the humidity comes back.

[stetto]

Yep, bee-yoo-tee-full day in Luling Texas!

[Onepoint]

We already know we have one for the record books.  I have had years in the past I could have cut hay about now, and turned cows out on grass at tie end of April.  This year I'm holding them in just let anything grow so they have something to eat.

 Hay is struggling and only about a foot tall, and sparse.  Grass is still just a couple inches and almost dormant despite the 90s for temps and a near half inch of rain we had. 

I'm not alone. Normally this time of year the cattle auction will get 500 to 700 on sale days being a slow time of year, bred cow and cow/calf pairs will sell early in the year but by now will be slow.  They had a "back to grass" special bred cow sale yesterday and had 9000 go through.  That's just one sale, and they are having those every other week with feeder specials in between that are also seeing larger numbers of feeder cattle, which are year old, and weaned calves that normally end up on pastures for the summer, being sold off and shipped elsewhere. Not sure where since there is drought from ID and Utah all the way across to FL and GA.  The central Rockies in CO and southern WY are in severe with some areas less than 30% snow this year, and some with none like our mountains to the west of us that any snow they did get after the 1st of the year had melted and never stayed, runoff was non existent, hopefully because they were storing any that did come. 

Its bad, worse I have ever seen or been through for sure.

[Onepoint]

We had a thunderstorm build up and come through, little dampness, nothing to be excited about, though we may get some measurable stuff tonight through Monday night.

 But we did get this - About 5 or 6 miles due west of us. Looks like probably a cold air funnel, but do not want regardless.

[wtxsflyr]

Too close!

[MrGoodwreck]

Eric,

Looks like the weather balloons are dropping in your area between yesterday, and today..

This one came down 3 hours ago, and is in a field.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B001'39.5%22N+104%C2%B044'42.8%22W/@42.0265287,-104.746756,1798m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.02763!4d-104.74522?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Onepoint]

Those sneaky Chinese, gotta be an invasion!

Wait, Roswell was a "weather balloon" they said too. 

[jetmex]

Looks like another wet dreary week here.  80 degrees and raining, supposed to be like this through next Monday. 

[stetto]

Us too, Jaime. They put the Gonzalez/Luling area as ground zero for tonight, 4-5 inches expected. Then a day off and round two on Thursday night into Friday, followed by a wet weekend, 80s the whole way. Ill take it as long as the gale winds stay off the menu. My little 20-footer isn't tied down...

[stetto]

A lot of light and rumble all night for a measly inch of rain. We'll take it though...

Air traffic was routed south of Austin, never seen so many planes go over at one time out in the boondocks, there were dozens.

[jetmex]

A lot of light and rumble all night for a measly inch of rain.

We got the same here, Stetto.  There were a few thunderclaps that rattled the windows and you'd have thought we were in a hurricane the way the wind was blowing.  About an inch in my highly calibrated wally world rain gauge. The sun came out for a bit this afternoon, they're saying more of the same tomorrow.  For now...

[jetmex]

Heavy rain today.  Been raining since early this morning, about 2 inches so far on the wally world calibrated rain gauge.  We need it, but I'm getting a little tired of it and the forecast is for more rain over the next four days.  It's holding up a lot of stuff I need to get done on the house....like the roof....

[Onepoint]

 We have had second, (3rd?) spring the last few days, little damp, nothing to measure, but a sprinkle and cool, like low 70s, now today its near 90, supposed to be for the next few days, which seems mighty hot now, even though we had 90s in March. Finally, a month late, its starting to green up, not getting tall, but at least you can see green from a distance now.