Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Another Record Hot Day Here in N TX. 106 😬

LMAO ! Carry on Whiner. Your butthurt is strong. 😂

80 predicted here, thunderstorms already up your neck of the woods, prob’ly get here in maybe an hour.

Gonna sit out on the porch and watch it get here, woohoo livin’ large 🙂

The dogs won’t like it much.

Dunno, barn swallows are low level specialists, can turn on a dime. Purple Martins OTOH are physically the largest species of swallow in the world, which implies some degree of unusual specialization.

Actually they are high altitude dragonfly specialists which spend the winter in huge nomadic flocks wandering around the rain forest.

When the eggs hatch they’re feeding about 20g total of ravenous young, 18days later those same young add up to about 250g with food requirements scaled up accordingly and they have to feed them at that rate for another two weeks.

If they can’t pull down a dragonfly or other large insect from the window of sky above the nest about every two or three minutes, one or two or more of a brood of five ain’t gonna make it. This year they’ll do well to raise even one.

Point of interest, little barometers strapped to their backs have shown that, when they have nothing else going on, purple martins in summer here loaf around at about 5,000ft where it’s cooler.

We have the top down in the convertible on a sunny afternoon. It’s 4:20 and a blistering 63*. 😁. My kinda weather.

Ask and ye shall receive, big red storm cell headed this way, lightning all across the sky to the west and northwest.

You skeert? 🤠

I saw a mosquito this afternoon.

Think I’ll start a new thread.

Round one last hour

Err uhhh, about 4 ago

Got another line materializing behind that.

Texan Tough = a little winter shuts you down and the heat is too hot.

Perhaps we are already seeing the California migration influence.
Most likely not though, they've always been 'big hat no cattle' here on the 'fire.

46F(2 minutes ago) in the Hinterland.

They are calling for 30F tonight which might have the early corn guys worried.

Waited two hours, rumbling, sky lighting, looks like the real action went somewhere else. Finally started raining with no wind, still rumbling.

I did see a mosquito.

Last Wednesday I saw the first mosquito.


Near a beaver pond it was.

Big full size Canuuck version.



Pricks..

Just had some nice big ole thunderstorms and rain roll through. Supposed to get down to 50 degrees tonight. Quite a change from 106 this weekend.

Around mid-night we are supposed to have a pretty healthy thunderstorm pass through with high winds and potential for hail. All of the vehicles are in the garage and I sitting here waiting. The forecast was for 1 1/2" or so.

We got an inch tonight and some really small hail.

Not much but it might make a mess out of the newer body metal types.

It is a cold night with the wind coming out of the North/Northwest at a good clip.

We needed the rain.

Hot?


In Texas?!?!


Next I suppose you will say there are no tigers in Africa.....

Well it is raining and I am hearing faint rumblings so it's on the way.

Saaay. Wait a sec…..

Rain and thunder all around Austin at midnight.
Gotta go sit outside.