My FIL's place out between Boerne and Bulverde got 2.6" yesterday and more today. He said hardly any of what fell yesterday was running off. The soaking rain is good, but we need some runoff producing rain so bad. His tanks have been dry for over 2 years.Gunny456 said:
Hope so. He said some places in west Kerr county have had over 11". It's a good start.
txags92 said:
I ran across this site a few months ago and I haven't seen it posted recently, but TWDB has a good site for all kinds of water data (rainfall, river stage, etc.) - Texas MesoNet
Just FYI. the more you zoom in, the more stations show up.
The rain bombs are more common than most people imagine. I've heard of them and seen the results on the Guadalupe, Llano, Blanco and Colorado rivers over the last 20 years. It's a lot of water over a small area, I'm sure there are other ones that have happened that no guage picked up and only the locals remember.country said:
Johnson Fork Creek in Kimble County got to just under 30' this morning. I believe official was 29.5. 2nd highest on record to my recollection. South Llano and Main Llano are at 20'
Pro Sandy said:
My daughter at LLYC just north of Leakey said it rained all night and all day. Frio is up.
She likes the rain because it means extended cabin time.
My daughter is at Echo. She said so far it is good. Was there a few weeks ago and that area had isolated heavy storms. I was at garner all day without a drop, but the frio river road at rapids. Didn't want to risk the rental car, so thumbed a ride down to Echo for some staff members.bowhuntr said:Pro Sandy said:
My daughter at LLYC just north of Leakey said it rained all night and all day. Frio is up.
She likes the rain because it means extended cabin time.
My daughter (camper) is there at Singing Hills. I'm wondering about pickup on Saturday with the river levels.
Hewey Calloway said:
Dad sent me this photo of the Medina River in Bandera today. That's the dam at the park from the 173 bridge. Hill country desperately needed this rain.
TarponChaser said:Hewey Calloway said:
Dad sent me this photo of the Medina River in Bandera today. That's the dam at the park from the 173 bridge. Hill country desperately needed this rain.
Last I saw Medina Lake was only like 3 or 4% full. Hopefully this helps but that lake probably needs 10 of these types of rain events to refill completely.
I'm somewhat ok with that. If I have to choose between the water being in a lake where it will evaporate, versus in the aquifer recharging springs and other karst features, I would choose the latter. Obviously getting enough rain to do both would be better.billyjack2009 said:
Thinking the Guadalupe flow may get gobbled up by aquifers, etc. and not have an impact on Canyon Lake. Need even more rain. Today is quiet so if we get more tomorrow/Friday hopefully that flows down and doesn't get swallowed up by the ground.
They said on the Austin news last night that LBJ and Marble Falls would be opening gates today. You can see the lake level dip at the end of the graph for LBJ on the waterdatafortexas site.TMfrisco said:
Just heard they opened the gates at LBJ and are releasing water downstream.
the gauge at Spring Branch shows the river up 10ft and flowing almost 7,000cfsbillyjack2009 said:
Thinking the Guadalupe flow may get gobbled up by aquifers, etc. and not have an impact on Canyon Lake. Need even more rain. Today is quiet so if we get more tomorrow/Friday hopefully that flows down and doesn't get swallowed up by the ground.
All I know is it canceled my trip to HSB this weekend due to crap in the water and it being closed to boating.txags92 said:They said on the Austin news last night that LBJ and Marble Falls would be opening gates today. You can see the lake level dip at the end of the graph for LBJ on the waterdatafortexas site.TMfrisco said:
Just heard they opened the gates at LBJ and are releasing water downstream.
It has gone up a little over a 10th of a foot in the last 48 hours. But that is probably just because the folks in the new developments west of New Braunfels only watered their grass once yesterday instead of twice.billyjack2009 said:
Hopefully the lake level starts moving up in the new few hours:
Water Data For Texas
My part of Houston has had just shy of 20" this month. We'll probably get there by this weekend. Almost 30" in the last 2 months.lazuras_dc said:
See, yall can get rain without a hurricane hitting the gulf coast!
