Fiddle farting around on the farm.

[Siesta Sundance]

Post #983 Jan 6, 2025

Forecast shows 2 to 8in white chit in Central to N TX later this week. Y'all need to keep that crap up North or I'm gonna have to share those 120*+ heat index days in the summer with Y'all.

Rain/sleet chances increase here on Wednesday/Thursday, really hoping its just rain and the ground temperature stays warm enough for contnued germination of the rye grass/trical 813 on the 4 acres.

Y'all can keep the heat up North!!

 

[RCW]

Post #983 Jan 6, 2025


Y'all can keep the heat up North!!

Probably a cool summer day down south, but this is really hot and humid for upstate New York…..

We had 4-6” of rain in a few hours Sunday morning and a lot of corn was under water. Lot of roads and homes damaged too.

Flooding has receded some, but the new plantings are not going to make it.

Sad.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Probably a cool summer day down south, but this is really hot and humid for upstate New York…..

We had 4-6” of rain in a few hours Sunday morning and a lot of corn was under water. Lot of roads and homes damaged too.

Flooding has receded some, but the new plantings are not going to make it.

Sad.

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A few heat records back in May, knock on wood not many 100* days in the 30day forecast. Usually late July and August it gets a bit crispy here.

Praying for more rain here! I was doing skidsteer work all day at the neighbors reclaiming a pasture and pulling trees up, no moisture found in those 2 to 3 feet holes. A few places the tree puller felt like I hit concrete, hard on the machine, thank God, I bought the air ride seat for that machine.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

We really need a tropical storm to come in and rain on us for 10 days or so.
Canyon Lake: 46.7% full.
Lake Corpus Christi: 21.9% full
Choke Canyon Reservoir: 13.4% full
Medina Lake: 2.5% full.
as of 2025-06-24

 

[Siesta Sundance]

That's a long season, with restrictions, IMO, it would be hard to accomplish all those archery days....

But on hindsight, Praise Jesus Coldbeer appoved!
I'll be in VA, in the summer.

@biketopia
Ok, looks like the closest I'll be to ya is about 5 hours west, New River Gorge in WV next week. Currently in Gallipolis.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

2.5 hour drive north to Kerrville from our place. Our 5 day rain total .06 inch.
6 hundredths of an inch.
Prayers to those affected by the flooding.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

We really need a tropical storm to come in and rain on us for 10 days or so.
Canyon Lake: 46.7% full.
Lake Corpus Christi: 21.9% full
Choke Canyon Reservoir: 13.4% full
Medina Lake: 2.5% full.
as of 2025-06-24

Us, not the hill country! I feel really bad for even making that post last month. Such tragedy, prayers.

 

[Russell King]

We got hammered with rain in our area (Burnet to Austin). We have a cabin out on the North Branch of the San Gabriel (north of Lake Georgetown) and were forced to evacuate by the county on Saturday. The county was super cautious due to what happened on the Guadalupe on Friday. Such a tragedy there!

There is an RV park just down river from us that they were most concerned about so evacuated a low area that we all were in. This is data (water height) from a sensor a mile or so south of out property. Data is from January 1, 2020 until yesterday. Shows that 10 feet is common level for floods in the spring but this weekend‘s level went to 26.5 up from around normal of 2.5 feet.

The river was as high as I have seen it and was incredibly impressive. But honestly not too much damage to anything. The county road bridge was under water and the railings were damaged (see below), some trees are broken or leaning and one old (over 100 years old) bridge near Joppa Church was washed away. It had been replaced with a concrete structure but was left standing until the flood took it down.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Praying for rain, not floods. Less than an inch this month. Hay out in July...

 

[Russell King]

The bigger reservoir lake, above Lake Travis, which is Lake Buchanan is now 99.9% full. They actually had to open the floodgates (2?) a few days ago. They tend to keep Travis lower since there are several uncontrolled rivers (Llano, Pedernales,…) that are above Lake Travis and below Lake Buchanan. Lake Travis is the last lake that has storage in that chain of lakes.

It is surprising that Lake Canyon is not full now. I will have to see why it isn’t full after the flood on the Guadalupe. Maybe it was just not enough volume to fill the lake?

 

[Siesta Sundance]

The bigger reservoir lake, above Lake Travis, which is Lake Buchanan is now 99.9% full. They actually had to open the floodgates (2?) a few days ago. They tend to keep Travis lower since there are several uncontrolled rivers (Llano, Pedernales,…) that are above Lake Travis and below Lake Buchanan. Lake Travis is the last lake that has storage in that chain of lakes.

It is surprising that Lake Canyon is not full now. I will have to see why it isn’t full after the flood on the Guadalupe. Maybe it was just not enough volume to fill the lake?

Not sure.

Choke Canyon is 35 min west of me, it's 87.4% empty, or 12.6% full.

Lake Corpus Christi is 45min SW of me and it's 20.4% full.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

The bigger reservoir lake, above Lake Travis, which is Lake Buchanan is now 99.9% full. They actually had to open the floodgates (2?) a few days ago. They tend to keep Travis lower since there are several uncontrolled rivers (Llano, Pedernales,…) that are above Lake Travis and below Lake Buchanan. Lake Travis is the last lake that has storage in that chain of lakes.

It is surprising that Lake Canyon is not full now. I will have to see why it isn’t full after the flood on the Guadalupe. Maybe it was just not enough volume to fill the lake?

Chris Suchan Meteorologist

Yesterday versus today in Cotulla with the Nueces River. Water pushing down the dry riverbed toward Lake Corpus Christi. 📷 Carl Childers

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[Siesta Sundance]

Its amazing it takes days for the water to travel to the lakes.

 

[Russell King]

It is interesting how it moves through the river bed. There are two USGS monitoring stations on the part of the San Gabriel river we are on. One is above us and one is a couple miles below us. They are about 15 miles apart and takes about 3 to 4 hours to get from from so the water is only moving about 4 to 5 MPH. I don’t know if it moves faster after the peak occurs but it looks a lot faster than that when looking at debris move through.