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Make The Sunshine indeed

By Matthew Rutledge on 07/16/2009

That was a draw­ing of mine from 1990 or so, back when everything had spiky hair, sunglasses and earrings. And back when Texas had normal temper­at­ures. Or did it?

For example, on July 16, 1990, the high temper­at­ure in Austin was 78, and the low was 68. That’s actu­ally well below normal, but then again, today’s fore­cast high of 102 is well above normal. Last year’s high of 97 was also above aver­age. So was 2000’s, and 2004’s, ..read more

Posted in Austin, g33ky stuff, texas | Tagged Austin, data, drought, heat, historical, summer, texas, weather | Leave a response

United Texas Emirates

By Matthew Rutledge on 07/09/2009

Seriously, if I thought the heat would have been this bad, I would have become a panhand­ler in Portland like every­one else is doing. For the record, the aver­age high in August (i.e. next month, and there­fore a warmer month) is 95. We have hit 100 degrees or more 23 times this year, and it looks like we will hit 100 each day for at least the next 5 days.

Now, I know that plenty of civil­iz­a­tions survive and even ..read more

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