Matt Hooper said:

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Did the 1980's cease to be a thing? Record number of days over 100 degrees. I'm old enough to remember - sadly.

It's like history stopped if the past is inconsistent with the current drama narrative.

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I believe 2011 was hotter on the whole. A lot of cities set records for most consecutive days over 100 and most total days over 100. I know Wichita Falls had over 100 100* days. Probably the most brutal summer we've ever had.

We got solar panels and windmills. We'll be fine.

Odd, I don't remember 2011. I do remember 1998. 29 days over 100.

Oh how I remember 2011 working outdoors. Got into the hundreds in May and didn't break until September 14th with a high of 94 in college station. Felt like a cold front

Marcus Brutus said:

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Odd, I don't remember 2011. I do remember 1998. 29 days over 100.

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2011 was when Bastrop fires were going on. Dyer Mill fire around Plantersville as well.

Based on ercot forwards we are good. We do need a pretty big rain maker to come up the 35 corridor preferably

The Brazos Kid said:

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It's about at the point you can wade across the Brazos and not get your shorts wet.

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The Guadalupe at the 281 bridge in Comal Co is just a trickle

The Brazos Kid said:

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Marcus Brutus said:

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Odd, I don't remember 2011. I do remember 1998. 29 days over 100.

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2011 was when Bastrop fires were going on. Dyer Mill fire around Plantersville as well.

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I do remember the Bastrop fires. For some reason just don't remember the string of high temps.

I spent time on a marching field in that run around 98 and 99.... nothing like the step off whistle sounding, and hearing the collective sound of shoes that had stuck to black top.

I remember when it was over 100 degrees in 2009 or 2010 for something like 60 days straight. This is nothing unusual for Texas.

My daughter was learning to drive in 2011 and she literally never drove in the rain due to the prolonged drought that year. When the windows fogged up in 2012 during a rainstorm she had no idea what was going on and called us in a panic.

In Austin summer of 2011, between June and the end of August we had 73 days 100+ out of 92 days. July had two days below 100, only 99 degrees.

https://www.kxan.com/weather/ten-years-ago-austins-hottest-summer-wraps-up/

the 2011 fires were crazy. everybody was hosing down their house.

Cool pic

This is part and parcel with living in texas. Just another hot summer. I've acclimated just like I always have by getting up and outdoors in the mornings and extending my time until 100 is fine in the shade with a fan.

It is the soft people that sit inside watching netflix all day that have issues.

Tanya 93 said:

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It is 97 degrees in Como right now.

However, gas dropped 6 cents at Casey's. Now I can afford the extra large fountain drink. I guess that will beat the heat

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For a second I thought, wow she lives in Ft. Worth?

Just wait until we have another drought like the 1950s. Six years of rainfall well below average (1951-57). Not going to be pretty when it happens again (and it will).

Consider a contrary case, just for perspective. Anyone remember 1989?? An August in TX that by our standards was mild, even had some major rain if recall.

Its real hot now, but that is normal for a TX July. More worrisome is the drought part of it, not the heat.

We can always hope that maybe it will surprise us, and in exchange for the hot May just had, one of our summer months might also be different.

You know the old saying about Texas weather and if you don't like it.

The Brazos Kid said:

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It's about at the point you can wade across the Brazos and not get your shorts wet.

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I lived in Weatherford for 20 years. This was every single day of those 20 years. Except for the little pass through on the west side of the bridge where the rope swings were...

ABATTBQ11 said:

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Matt Hooper said:

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Did the 1980's cease to be a thing? Record number of days over 100 degrees. I'm old enough to remember - sadly.

It's like history stopped if the past is inconsistent with the current drama narrative.

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I believe 2011 was hotter on the whole. A lot of cities set records for most consecutive days over 100 and most total days over 100. I know Wichita Falls had over 100 100* days. Probably the most brutal summer we've ever had.

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Wichita Falls could win the contest for ugliest, hottest, loneliest town. It's a place that could make a man proud to be from Midland or Fort Stockton. It makes Lubbock look like a destination vacation spot.

HartWorm93 said:

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Tanya 93 said:

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It is 97 degrees in Como right now.

However, gas dropped 6 cents at Casey's. Now I can afford the extra large fountain drink. I guess that will beat the heat

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For a second I thought, wow she lives in Ft. Worth?

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For a second I thought she lived in Lake Como, Italy.

Say hi to Clooney if you run into him.

Irish 2.0 said:

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Maybe the heat will scare some of that 20% to GTFO and move back to CA

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I sure hope so. I'm tired of all this damn traffic. When I was a kid Allen had 0 stop lights. Population: 1,940.

How? 2011 was not bad? Half of Texas burned. I remember Kyle Field being filled with smoke in September. Bastrop burned specifically, but there was a lot more. My In-Laws have a lake house on Cedar Creek Lake and it was 10 ft low. It is funny now how people are now complaining how Cedar Creek Lake is 2 ft low and think it may be the lowest ever. People have bad memories. In Texas we are due for a good drought every ten years and a good freeze in the same time frame.

During the 1950's drought, my Dad got on his horse and rode down the middle of the Guadalupe River for 5 miles, picking up fish for our stock tank...

boomer on social security said:

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In Austin summer of 2011, between June and the end of August we had 73 days 100+ out of 92 days. July had two days below 100, only 99 degrees.

https://www.kxan.com/weather/ten-years-ago-austins-hottest-summer-wraps-up/

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This past June, Austin had 19 of 30 days with a high at 100 or above. Austin had a high of 95 on July 1st and has been 100 or above since then. The forecast is 100+ through July 17. It looks like 2022 is going to give 2011 a run for its money.

I thought this thread was gonna be a comparison of the hubris vs the recruiting and summer camp of t.u. Football...

waitwhat? said:

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We're beginning to compare this summer to 2011, but there's one glaring difference: about 20% more population. In 2011 we were threatened with rolling blackouts and water supplies for power plants drying up. Do we have the capacity to get 20% more people through a summer remotely close to 2011?

This is beginning to feel like the days leading up to the 2021 winter storm, when the coming temperatures and ice/snow were casually forecast, but no officials warned of how ill prepared we really were for that storm.

We have millions more people, but no more lakes, and the ones we have are already getting low.

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I guess we were lucky. In Hurst we had not power outages at all. God I miss living in Texas.

philiah06 said:

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How? 2011 was not bad? Half of Texas burned. I remember Kyle Field being filled with smoke in September. Bastrop burned specifically, but there was a lot more. My In-Laws have a lake house on Cedar Creek Lake and it was 10 ft low. It is funny now how people are now complaining how Cedar Creek Lake is 2 ft low and think it may be the lowest ever. People have bad memories. In Texas we are due for a good drought every ten years and a good freeze in the same time frame.

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I didn't say it was not bad, I just don't recall the consecutive string of high temps over 100.

You remember it because it affected you obviously. Other than it being hot, it did not personally affect me. I wasn't at Kyle Field during the summer of 2011.

Yep, getting summer 2011 vibes here in Houston. That little tropical dust up did not deliver for us in Houston proper except coastal areas. I saw something saying 2011 we lost around 40% of the tree canopy because of the drought. It wrecked Memorial and Hermann Parks and the greenways. All the pines couldnt take it.

Memorial park lost something like 10000 trees

Matt Hooper said:

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Did the 1980's cease to be a thing? Record number of days over 100 degrees. I'm old enough to remember - sadly.

It's like history stopped if the past is inconsistent with the current drama narrative.

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I was living in a trailer in Wellborn that summer. My dog would literally plop down and lay on top of the a/c vent and stay there all day. It was brutal.

Cloud seeding?
If there are any clouds?

TheEternalPessimist said:

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My plan to deal with higher energy and water demands in Texas:

1. Compress the river authorities, of which there are 18, into 6 regional water authorities within Texas. Each of these 6 authorities would build desalinization plants in its zone.
2. Each water authority would be responsible for linking ALL reservoirs in it's zone with other reservoirs in the zone via a system of high volume pumps that carry fresh water from desalinization plants to all reservoirs. This system can be used to keep ALL lakes, even in droughts, at healthy elevation levels.
3. Texas will need new power sources for the desalinization plants, and that will require at least 2-3 new nuclear power plants to be connected to the grid.
4. Texas needs to be able to attach to the 3 neighboring grids in case of disasters like the 2021 cold spell. But TX would retain control over our grid.

Good luck getting the cities, river authorities, the legislature, governor, state supreme court, industry leaders, and US regulatory agencies on board. That's its own animal.

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Umm…no.

Living in and farming in two different river authorities has driven home NEVER give up control of your water. If you consolidate Austin/San Antonio/Dallas/Houston will control all of the flood management and water access.

Add to it many of these river authorities have older claims to water access than the developments that allows irrigation and agriculture to continue.

BRA and LCRA have been amazing at managing their zones and they should be incentivized, not dismantled.

If you want desalination plants you should provide funding and loans to proven groups to develop as they need. The Allen Creek reservoir was held hostage for 40 years because Houston would not sell their rights for BRA to build and manage. Instead Houston failed to ever correct their flooding issues and water resources.

BRA also works close with Freeport and the shipping industry to maintain good shipping lanes and clean waters.