When I was in grad school, my job was to drive instrument towers to the coast when a hurricane was coming so we could collect high-frequency wind data that we could study to learn about how to make buildings more resilient to wind storms like hurricanes. I drove to a...
Last week the Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development (SNRED) committee gathered for a hearing on five different interim charges (a complete list of Texas Senate interim charges is available here). Thursday, June 13 the Senate Natural Resources and Economic...
Texas is known for wild weather, but the diversity, intensity, and frequency of severe weather across the state has been remarkable. We have seen every mode of severe weather (hail, wind, tornadoes, and extreme precipitation) and many regions experienced multiple...
The stagnant, hot, humid conditions over the weekend led to very hazy conditions in Central Texas over the weekend. The haze obscured distant skylines and natural features, turned the sky white, and generally contributed to the unpleasantness of the extremely hot...
Memorial weekend saw extreme heat across a large portion of the State of Texas. My family was scheduled to go camping and hiking Sunday and Monday at Enchanted Rock. We chose Memorial Day weekend for the outing because that is early enough in the summer that our...
