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About 4.5" total now where I am in Austin. We should be over 5" by the end of today given the steady light rain and mod/heavy patches around.

More of a general soaking around Austin today than yesterday. 2.1" of rain where I am since midnight, most areas are over 1". A couple of localized spots have over 3".

Euro had some pretty crazy rain amounts through day 10 throughout most of TX-widespread 5-8" pockets stretching from Mexico NE through the state.

Last Halloween in Austin we had rain rates like that, it was pretty much completely blinding. The streets went from dry to complete torrents in a few minutes.

Heat index of 116 at Camp Mabry now, 112 at the airport. Today has to be one of the top 5 most disgustingly, rotten hot days of my life.

100 Degree Days so far: Austin Camp Mabry: 21 (Today was especially awesome with a high of 102 and 111 heat index) AUS-Bergstrom Int'l: 8 (In a more rural setting and had a good amount of rain in late July) San Antonio Stinson Airport: 25 San Antonio Int'l: 3 Houston Hobby: 0 Intercontinental: 5 Dallas DFW: 13 Love Field: 14

Yeah, no fun. Today's day 15-currently 101. The ground is completely parched and dry now, crazy considering the wet spring we had. If this keeps up we'll have wildfires soon.

14 days 100+ so far in Austin this summer including today. We're way ahead of last year so far, and we finished with 25 days last summer.

Today will be the 7th 100+ degree day in Austin. And today like yesterday we have 110+ heat indices. Beyond disgusting. Soon, with the strong southerly winds we've had for weeks now, brushfires will be common across the area. The ground is already dry from having no rain in weeks.

Not like there isn't plenty of moist, disgusting air to be tapped here in Austin. Looks like CAPE should be sufficient for storms here, but the line's crawling south. I guess we'll see what happens. There's been zero rain where I am in about two weeks, and the ground's already looking parched with the daily 100 degree heat we've been having. Hopefully this doesn't turn into another severe flash drought like last summer which resulted in wildfires by early fall.

Good line of storms look to be headed south from Lampasas-Waco. Hopefully they make it here, can't believe I'm saying it but we could use the rain!!

Too bad you didn't move in the spring-San Antonio had some massive hail events this year. Get used to generally boring but very hot weather through September. We're just about to wrap up month 1 of constant 90+ highs in Austin. Now it's on to 95-100 every day, with humidity making for heat indices of 105+ every day. At this rate, in a few weeks we'll be at the 100+ daily highs phase. So far this summer looks like it will be hotter than last summer.

First 100 today here in Austin. It still feels like a furnace outside, at 5pm it was brutal. In Jan and Feb, average highs go from the low 60s to mid 70s, but it can get below freezing on a decent number of nights, and we can also have highs into the 80s under the right pattern. On average, there's maybe one or two winter weather events of some type where there's some sleet or freezing rain. Dallas isn't too far away and they have one or two more significant winter events per year.

Unless it's completely cloudy or wet, hitting 90 is pretty much a given. We also average 12-13 days a year above 100, and the ground has dried out, so we should start that up soon.

So far about 45 90F and over days in Austin. On average there's about 110 per year. Still hasn't hit 100-today might be the day, currently 99 and we've had some late highs recently.

Very August 2011 like. Flooding out there must be a disaster, it sure was here on that day. We had over 10 inches of rain in maybe 5 hours.

That was pretty much the path I took... I was in the Meteo major at Penn State for 2 years, then switched to Energy, Business and Finance, which is also a very broad area of study where you can develop numerous different specialties. Ultimately I want to pursue an M.B.A., preferably in the energy/renewables sectors. Many meteo students at Penn State took the E.B.F. minor (which is called Weather Risk Management or Global Business Strategies) and it helped them greatly in attaining positions at energy and commodities companies which value that kind of background.

Minor in another field such as econ or finance. That will give you a diverse background and make you more marketable to various employers, particularly energy companies.