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Old 07-08-2019, 08:33 PM
 
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Bringing this one back from the dead.

Just wondering here. Are these super storms with lightning pulverizing the earth / downpours and semi-tornadoes normal? Just seems it's been pretty rough so far as far as rain goes lately.

I drove home from work in it. It wasn't 'awful' but it sure looked scary outside.
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Old 07-08-2019, 08:44 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Honestly, it seems there are less of these systems than there used to be (20+ years ago). But maybe that is just me .
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Old 07-08-2019, 08:48 PM
 
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Honestly, it seems there are less of these systems than there used to be (20+ years ago). But maybe that is just me .
Interesting.

Honestly I've always have been feeling the weather in general has not been normal across the nation almost like I'm just waiting on something to happen.
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Old 07-08-2019, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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The thing is, the weather is rarely 'normal'. The 'average' weather is no now way indicative of what to expect. 2" average rain in a month could be 0" for 4 years and then 10" in the fifth. The average is 2" but it never rains 2". Just an example, of course, but not unreasonable at all with tropical systems and other weather patterns.
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Old 07-09-2019, 12:19 AM
 
Location: Avery Ranch, Austin, TX
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Moved here in '08 after one of the wettest years...then it didn't rain for the next five. We were told the "cycle" was 2 years of one type of weather, followed by 1 year of the opposite...then reverse and rinse and repeat. Seems like we are on more of a 4-5 year seesaw...with one outlier month thrown in each year.
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Old 07-09-2019, 09:19 AM
 
Location: central Austin
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2019 is shaping up to be a "wet" year rather than a dry one. But tropical downpours with "walls of water" falling from the sky with basically no visibility at all are not uncommon in Texas and this was true 20 years ago, 30 years ago, etc.



During one storm during our early years in Texas, it rained so hard during a tropical system that we had tree frogs squeezing in under our door frame and the next morning found an entire FIRE ANT colony had moved their mound under our first floor dining room carpet!! (older apartment complex). During the peak of that rain, you couldn't see more than 6 inches in front of you!
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Old 07-09-2019, 01:58 PM
 
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2019 is shaping up to be a "wet" year rather than a dry one. But tropical downpours with "walls of water" falling from the sky with basically no visibility at all are not uncommon in Texas and this was true 20 years ago, 30 years ago, etc.



During one storm during our early years in Texas, it rained so hard during a tropical system that we had tree frogs squeezing in under our door frame and the next morning found an entire FIRE ANT colony had moved their mound under our first floor dining room carpet!! (older apartment complex). During the peak of that rain, you couldn't see more than 6 inches in front of you!
I guess I have always thought of Central Texas as a dry and arrid place...some rain yeah - but semi-desert.

Does DFW get hammer storms often?
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Old 07-09-2019, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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I guess I have always thought of Central Texas as a dry and arrid place...some rain yeah - but semi-desert.

Does DFW get hammer storms often?
Yes. They are in tornado alley. Austin is not. Dallas is drier in the summer. Anyone who looks at a climate map that a 4th grader can read would see Sustin is not in the desert.
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Old 07-09-2019, 02:37 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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I guess I have always thought of Central Texas as a dry and arrid place...some rain yeah - but semi-desert.

Does DFW get hammer storms often?
The Dallas area and all of NE Texas gets hellacious storms pretty regularly. Personally, I like them but they are sort of an acquired taste - LOL!

Central Texas is not a desert or semi desert. Austin has had a rainier than average year but big "frog stranglers," as my dad used to call heavy rainfall and storms, are common in that area, as is flooding.
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Old 07-09-2019, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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Central Texas is not a desert or semi desert. Austin has had a rainier than average year but big "frog stranglers," as my dad used to call heavy rainfall and storms, are common in that area, as is flooding.[/QUOTE]

After all, south and south central Texas are called the flash flood capital of the world. Some people just don’t research an area much before relocating.
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