Weather...

Gotto love Texas weather, especially in May. This place is crazy this time of year. (I think Brandi can attest to that...) We have had a few inquiries about how we are doing in with all the weather we are having here. Well we are good. We see lots of tornado watches, and warnings and flash flood watches and warnings and all sorts of severe thunderstorm warnings those are really obvious at 4AM when the whole house shakes and the neighbors car alarms go off. There are some quite terrific storms here and I have to say I kind of like them. But so far so good nothing to report.

There are some things about the weather I don't care too much for:

• When it is 12.3 billion degrees Celsius in August. I have to admit, I now have a car with AC so I am kind of looking forward to it.
• When there are two ice days in the winter and no food in the HEB.
• When it cools down to 98 at midnight in August.
• Its September and 12.2598 billion degrees, AHHH so much cooler, makes football watching not so fun, sure I will still go watch...

But remember with the bad comes the good:

• Trick - or - Treating in shorts
• October football games are a very a pleasant 70 degree evening
• No heating bill in the winter
• We can cook out and wear shorts and flip flops at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.

So all this weather stuff got me thinking about some fun weather facts about where we live so here you go, don't be depressed, and by all means don't move here :-)

Ave high - 79

Ave low - 58

Ave annual rain fall - 32" (BTW Portland and Seattle are 37" and 36" respectively, it could make up the 5 inches if it wanted to in like 3 hours)

Sunny days/year - 300

Days above 80 - 189

Days above 90 - 111

# of days that dip below 45 - 88

# of days that dip below 32 - 19

Record for consecutive days above 100 - 41 (2000, for those of you keeping score that was the year we moved here)

Hottest recorded day - 112 (2000, see above, it was HOT)

Coldest Day - when BYU beat Utah in 2006 wait, when Texas lost to A&M in 2006, oh I mean it was actually -2 in 1949

I found all this stuff on the internet so it must be true!

Anyhoo we are all doing good and haven't seen OZ yet, much to Xander's dismay...