Yet Another Texan

[granjera]

Nice, gentle rains in these parts and we're very pleased. And feel very lucky.

So far.

 

[Mike]

Welcome! So far it looks like Texas is taking over these parts!

 

[Zigs]

Welcome to the forum Granjera

 

[MamaHawk]

Nice, gentle rains in these parts and we're very pleased. And feel very lucky.

So far.

I feel like that's directly aimed at Meadowlark...but then again that's just how big Texas is!

 

[Meadowlark]

I feel like that's directly aimed at Meadowlark...but then again that's just how big Texas is!

 

[olly-buckle]

The Texans think they are taking over, that's Texans for you.
The Brits. are quietly getting on with it, that's our way

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Tetters]

I feel like that's directly aimed at Meadowlark...but then again that's just how big Texas is!

What do you mean? Maybe I'm a bit thick, but I don't follow

 

[granjera]

What do you mean? Maybe I'm a bit thick, but I don't follow

I'm baffled, too, Tetters. Of course, I'm so thick, I'm still trying to wrap my head around your Hardiness Zone.

 

[Tetters]

I'm baffled, too, Tetters. Of course, I'm so thick, I'm still trying to wrap my head around your Hardiness Zone.

So am I....what is it anyway ?

 

[granjera]

The USDA Hardiness Zone considers the lowest average temps in a region (for planting purposes). (That's my understanding, anyway.) San Antonio and Kent's average low temps are the same (let's say 3 deg C or 38 deg F), so your Hardiness Zones are the same (9a). It doesn't matter that SA might only hit these lows a handful of days and you have them for weeks or months at a time. OR that SA has a warmer climate.

I always look at the Hardiness map for the US, which seems to correlate with our different climates. Then there's that North Atlantic Current...and there you are, waaaaaay up north, and in Zone 9a.

 

[MamaHawk]

What do you mean? Maybe I'm a bit thick, but I don't follow

I'm baffled, too, Tetters. Of course, I'm so thick, I'm still trying to wrap my head around your Hardiness Zone.

Whoops, sorry guys; last I heard, @Meadowlark is still swimming in rain in his part of the state.

 

[Tetters]

I should have been able to work that out really

 

[olly-buckle]

I think it is that Meadowlark said they had over 40 inches 0f rain in under three weeks, gentle rain that ain't, and more coming. Put that in the context that we get about 25 inches in a year.

 

[Meadowlark]

Actually, the count is more dramatic...55 inches in just over three weeks as measured in a rain gauge. Unbelievable.

 

[Tetters]

The USDA Hardiness Zone considers the lowest average temps in a region (for planting purposes). (That's my understanding, anyway.) San Antonio and Kent's average low temps are the same (let's say 3 deg C or 38 deg F), so your Hardiness Zones are the same (9a). It doesn't matter that SA might only hit these lows a handful of days and you have them for weeks or months at a time. OR that SA has a warmer climate.

I always look at the Hardiness map for the US, which seems to correlate with our different climates. Then there's that North Atlantic Current...and there you are, waaaaaay up north, and in Zone 9a.

It's all to do with the jet stream so I'm told which sometimes keeps us a bit warmer - don't know where it is at the moment though. It's been raining all day, and I have heating on AND a woolly jumper.

 

[granjera]

Actually, the count is more dramatic...55 inches in just over three weeks as measured in a rain gauge. Unbelievable.

Wow. In the first few days of the rains, I was aware that areas south and east were getting slammed the most. News being what it is these days, I frequently tune out so I wasn't aware how heavy the rains had been after the first rains. Saw something just this morning on local news about that. Did you get hail and big winds as well?

 

[olly-buckle]

It's all to do with the jet stream so I'm told

Thing about weather is it isn't down to one thing, it's the final effect of various combinations. Another of the main things affecting British weather is that we are an offshore island, sandwiched between the Atlantic ocean and the North sea, but there are many things affecting it.

 

[Meadowlark]

. Did you get hail and big winds as well?

Some hail...enough to damage daughter's car. Straight-line winds here probably on the order of 60 mph....nothing like Houston which sustained estimated 110mph winds through downtown blowing out many windows in tall skyscrapers.

 

[granjera]

Your 55 inches is is something like 17 inches above our annual total.

We're under an Enhanced Risk of severe storms tomorrow. 60 mph, golf ball- to tennis ball-sized hail, maybe an inch or two of rain.

Well, at least we're not in a drought.