h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We did pretty much break all the records yesterday - 87F/30.6 downtown, and only a degree or two cooler at Mabry and the airport. That's getting on for 30°F above normal for the time of year.

Only a mere 80/26.7 today. Pshaw

I really should have been keeping on top of this thread. I heard on the wireless receiving device this morning that yesterday (Thursday) was the first day so far this year that we *haven't* set a new high temperature record for the date. Today and tomorrow are likely to be more in line with average temps for the time of year, but we will be nudging those records on Sunday when it gets into the high 70s/low 80s again.

Very heavily overcast this morning but still unseasonably warm - currently 65F/18.3C and we have a forecast of mid 70s F/low 20s C this afternoon... and rain!

Well, you know me - I'll believe it when I see it.

I've realised in the past few days that this winter is shaping up a lot like the first winter I was here in Austin - mild and sunny. And we had a real good storm season the following spring

It's happening again.

All day long there's been steady rain in surrounding counties, and throughout much of Texas... but not in Travis county. The bands of rain just seem to part as they reach the county line and come together again after they pass.

I really don't get it

I'm not a very good but it's probably that forcefield you've got erected over your building...or summat

We had a weird sky tonight - the sort of colour it goes just before a thunder storm...but no storm. I did see a reddish sky though - surely it can't be 'shepherd's delight' tomorrow - it's far too at the moment!

We did actually get some rain

Just at the moment I stepped out of the door to go and catch a bus

Which didn't arrive because I'd forgotten that yesterday was a public holiday and the buses were running to a less frequent timetable and I had to wait for 45 minutes In the wind and the rain

Cos I didn't realise until I'd been there for 25 minutes that it was a holiday

Today it's sunny, clear, much colder and very windy.

It rained I missed most of it though cos it rained during the night Got woken up at least once by a clap of thunder. Camp Mabry got about 0.4" I think, but only 0.2 downtown.

It's still raining a bit and it's chilly - mid 40s F.

3'C, cold and foggy.

Northants, UK

Rain, and lots of it Almost half an inch since midnight. And it started raining well after midnight cos I didn't get home from work until 12.30am, it was another hour before I went to bed, and it still wasn't raining then. In fact I looked at the radar before I turned off the PC and the rain was still way up in northwest Texas.

Ice - and lots of it, plus sparkly, frosty pavements. Cold all day and even colder tonight when we walked to the next village for a meal at the pub

Busy plotting our trip to the USA - looks like the Boston area this time.

Two records in two days!

Yesterday (Saturday), there was record rainfall at Camp Mabry for the date - 1.32", and today the temperature at ABIA got up to 82°F/27.8°C, breaking the old record by 1°F.

Texas weather - love it loathe, you can't avoid it

2nd Feb, Northants, UK

We have a little

And for about the 2,500th day in succession; there is no snow here

Poor you.

At least my weather report is noteworthy

I reckon neither of you are particularly interested in knowing that following a very grey, rainy (yes, we had more rain ), dismal day yesterday, and a rather foggy, misty night, it's a beautiful sunny day, on a par with the most gorgeous of June days in the UK

It snowed a little in SE London this morning while I was doing roadside checks with the police - I got very cold , so did my colleagues and some of the coppers.

No, we don't care, Gosh..BH

Hooray, ZSF confirms I wasn't seeing things!

Gonna be cold tonight! A hard freeze in outlying areas and a light freeze in town.

It rained overnight here - probably just what was needed, as we have warnings of drought - this early in the year!