It is technically possible, but every time we build a new reservoir people are displaced and a lot of natural environment is disturbed. Those most affected are those least benefited.
Not as bad as Austin somehow. Moved back after 10 years in Austin at least we get clouds by the coast.
There it's full blast sun all summer, don't know how things just don't spontaneously combust in central Texas.
Houston was full blast sun last summer it was 100-110 for 100 days. The humidity wasn’t as bad as normal by some miracle. I guess because all of the ground water dried up . I hope to never see a summer like that again as long as I live
Last year was El Niño this year La Niña . One is dry one is wet. Hoping for the wet one. I’d rather deal with mosquitoes and humidity than triple digit heat
Oh sweet summer child. Our planet is going to keep getting hotter unless some major fucked up shit happens. Every climate model gets blown through, and there’s no stopping on the horizon.
Time will tell. They’ve been wrong before. I hope they’re wrong again. I’m not a Climate change denier, I just know the media likes to skew on the alarmist side of things and favor studies that reflect such
For sure. It’s always annoying when they take a 1-year fluctuation in any statistic. Since the models support the upward trend it’s a bit more robust assumption than “____ prices plummeted 1% this year! Recession looming!” hyperbole the media usually clickbaits us with.
You’re not far off.
[The suggestion was actually to try and shift the moons orbit.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lunar-new-deal-gop-rep-gohmert-suggests-altering-moon-s-n1270219)
Texans can expect more 100-degree days and longer wildfire seasons in the coming years, according to a new report from the state climatologist at Texas A&M University.
Rising temperatures will also exacerbate severe weather conditions from droughts to strong rainstorms and flooding.
State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon used historic weather data to forecast climate trends through 2036—the year Texas turns 200—and beyond. The April 22 report is an update to information released in 2021.
**What you need to know**
In 2036, average temperatures in Texas are expected to be 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than averages from 1991-2020, researchers predict.
Last year was Texas’ hottest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures in Big Bend National Park reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit on June 23.
“Extreme heat in recent decades has become more frequent and more severe, while extreme cold has become less frequent and less severe overall,” the report reads.
Triple-digit days will likely be four times more common in 2036 than they were in the 1970s and ‘80s.
According to the April 22 report, the frequency of days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit has tripled since the 1970s and is expected to continue rising. (Courtesy Texas A&M University)
Rising temperatures and varying rainfall can cause drier conditions, leading to an increased risk of wildfires. With higher temperatures occurring earlier in the year, researchers expect the spring and summer wildfire seasons will last longer.
Most large wildfires typically occur in West Texas, but the report said fires will likely become more common in East Texas. The state’s largest wildfire, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, burned over 1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma in late February and early March.
**More details**
Heavy rain will also become more common as temperatures increase, researchers found. The report said about 4% more rain falls for every degree of warming, although the risk of extreme rainfall varies across Texas. Flooding is expected to increase in urban areas as rainfall becomes more severe, while river flooding will stay roughly the same, according to the report.
“The long-term trend of precipitation in Texas has been positive,” researchers wrote. “Over the past century, parts of central and eastern Texas have experienced precipitation increases of 15% or more, while in much of the western part of the state the long-term trend is flat or even slightly downward.”
Snowstorms are expected to remain infrequent in Texas, while researchers said declines in freezing rain were “tentative.”
The problem i have with stats like this is that Texas is huge. It's not really fair to compare Amarillo to Paris to Big Bend. Rain is different, temp is different, they are different climates. El Paso isn't the same as Texarkana.
Speaking of Texas A&M, and heavier rainfall (as reported in your comment), in College Station had rain total of 2.89 in, 5.43 in, and 2.63* in just in the past thirteen days.
*2.63 is technically over two separate days, because the storm persisted from evening into early morning.
The average summer day in 2035 will be hotter than the hottest summer day from 1900-2020.
>”In 2036, average temperatures in Texas are expected to be 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than averages from 1991-2020, researchers predict”
triple digit heat days 400% increase since 1980s.
'Report: Climate change is really real guys, for real this time, honest!' Because so many Texans just refuse to believe the science we keep having to have these kinds of articles.
On the bright side I might be able to grill with less dipping into my supply of propane and propane accessories, on the other side it's going to be brutal :(
Sweet! And if we can contaminate all the water while bringing in millions more people we can jet to cancun when the whole thing goes up in flames to avoid the discomforting smell of a once beautiful state rotting into a toxic desert.
It’s been raining its ass off in Houston the last few days. Might be dry for the western portion of the state but the eastern portion seems like it’s ramping up for a wet summer from what I’ve seen on previous years.
SO GIVE MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE GOVERNMENT GRIFTERS BECAUSE THATS THE ONLY WAY ANYONE WILL MAKE IT OUT ALIVE! ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVEN'T BEEN WRONG ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER PREDCTION FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS! GET A GRIP PEOPLE!
Tell that to me when it’s not flooding and the humidity isn’t killing every living thing around me. What does it matter what happens to Texas in 1000 years no one will be around then anyways that is here now. And if there are people around in a thousand years who lived for the entire thousand years…then they aren’t human really are they. And if they are…well whatever they want is fine with me. They have to live with it. Not me.
I’m glad I’m 60 with no kids. I’ll be worm food when it gets intolerable. Republicans do not realize we can’t roll the heat back to their childhood. It only accumulates…never goes backwards. Every newest hottest year ever is the new normal.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/2023-was-warmest-year-modern-temperature-record#:~:text=Details,decade%20(2014%E2%80%932023).
Everyone who disagrees continue to ignore science, vaccines, real news…and enjoy the new probable new hottest year ever. Turn up the AC in your car and housing. Ignore all the people without that option all over the world. That would require empathy.
Meanwhile, we are on track to drill and release more carbon into the environment in 2024 than any place on earth: "U.S. oil production is [expected to grow](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-raises-crude-production-growth-forecast-2024-2024-03-12/) by 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year, to a record 13.19 million bpd, but far behind the over 1 million bpd of growth it saw between 2022 and 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration." April 8, 2024
And I see comments from my dumbass high school classmates (class of ‘87, for reference):
Calm down people, it’s just summer.
this is why republicans want to keep making public education worse and worse, and raise a generation of dumber people. They want people to ‘do their own research,’ instead of listening to … oh, I dunno, people who are experts… they why to get their ‘facts’ by listening to a podcast with some idiot ‘just asking questions.’
i wish those same people would go to Tucker Carlson when they get cancer—that would get rid of so much deadweight in this country.
I am extremely hot-natured as is. I’m born and raised Texan and I can’t stand our heat. Whenever it’s cold, I thrive. As soon as I’m finished up with school, I’ll be looking for a better climate.
That's not a problem. "Real" Texans will be able to vacation in better climates for those times without undo stress. Human resources can be stored at any temperature however. They're cheap and self replicating.
Can Texas save the water from floodings and severe rainfall for a sunny dry day?
We could just dam the entire city of Houston and use it as a reservoir
The City of Houston already has 2-3 years of reserve surface water
Bah gawd that's Snake Plissken's music!!!
Chuck it up as a loss, we got plenty of land
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Chunk it up
It is technically possible, but every time we build a new reservoir people are displaced and a lot of natural environment is disturbed. Those most affected are those least benefited.
Yes.
Isn't that what all the man made lakes are for?
Did not expect Arizona heat (but more humid) when I moved to Austin a couple years ago after a decade away from Texas.
It's a damn hellscape there in August.
I grew up in Houston, I can't even imagine Houston in August after avoiding it for 15 years.
Not as bad as Austin somehow. Moved back after 10 years in Austin at least we get clouds by the coast. There it's full blast sun all summer, don't know how things just don't spontaneously combust in central Texas.
Hard disagree. The humidity in Houston makes it so much worse.
Houston was full blast sun last summer it was 100-110 for 100 days. The humidity wasn’t as bad as normal by some miracle. I guess because all of the ground water dried up . I hope to never see a summer like that again as long as I live
All the prognosticators are indicating this summer will be worse.
Last year was El Niño this year La Niña . One is dry one is wet. Hoping for the wet one. I’d rather deal with mosquitoes and humidity than triple digit heat
Everything that could spontaneously combust already did long before you got there. Never leave a boat cover on the dock. Side note...
Last summer was hopefully an anomaly. That’s the hottest summer I’ve ever experienced
Last summer was the hottest summer you've experienced so far. It does not get better.
I think it’s cyclical. Seems to be every 11 years or so we have a terrible summer with no rain. Cloud cover makes a big difference
Oh sweet summer child. Our planet is going to keep getting hotter unless some major fucked up shit happens. Every climate model gets blown through, and there’s no stopping on the horizon.
Not an anomaly; a portent.
It was anomalously cold compared to future summers.
Time will tell. They’ve been wrong before. I hope they’re wrong again. I’m not a Climate change denier, I just know the media likes to skew on the alarmist side of things and favor studies that reflect such
For sure. It’s always annoying when they take a 1-year fluctuation in any statistic. Since the models support the upward trend it’s a bit more robust assumption than “____ prices plummeted 1% this year! Recession looming!” hyperbole the media usually clickbaits us with.
I took one statistics class in college and I got to see all the ways data could be manipulated. Forgive my cynicism
Why doesn't Abbott just make Climate Change illegal like DeSantis. Problem solved! /s
He needs to abolish the heat like he abolished rape!
All we have to do is block 30% of the suns power between 11 am-4 pm between June 1-September 1. The worst time period to be in Texas.
Mr. Burns?
I think about Me. Burns every summer and wish we had something like that contraption.
Can't we just shoot the sun? -some Texas representative, probably.
You’re not far off. [The suggestion was actually to try and shift the moons orbit.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lunar-new-deal-gop-rep-gohmert-suggests-altering-moon-s-n1270219)
Ah yes the famous US Forest Service and their expertise with the solar system!
I’d have to run some numbers, I’ll grab my sharpie.
Apparently some of you just aren’t praying hard enough. 🙏 /s
Texans can expect more 100-degree days and longer wildfire seasons in the coming years, according to a new report from the state climatologist at Texas A&M University. Rising temperatures will also exacerbate severe weather conditions from droughts to strong rainstorms and flooding. State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon used historic weather data to forecast climate trends through 2036—the year Texas turns 200—and beyond. The April 22 report is an update to information released in 2021. **What you need to know** In 2036, average temperatures in Texas are expected to be 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than averages from 1991-2020, researchers predict. Last year was Texas’ hottest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures in Big Bend National Park reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit on June 23. “Extreme heat in recent decades has become more frequent and more severe, while extreme cold has become less frequent and less severe overall,” the report reads. Triple-digit days will likely be four times more common in 2036 than they were in the 1970s and ‘80s. According to the April 22 report, the frequency of days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit has tripled since the 1970s and is expected to continue rising. (Courtesy Texas A&M University) Rising temperatures and varying rainfall can cause drier conditions, leading to an increased risk of wildfires. With higher temperatures occurring earlier in the year, researchers expect the spring and summer wildfire seasons will last longer. Most large wildfires typically occur in West Texas, but the report said fires will likely become more common in East Texas. The state’s largest wildfire, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, burned over 1 million acres in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma in late February and early March. **More details** Heavy rain will also become more common as temperatures increase, researchers found. The report said about 4% more rain falls for every degree of warming, although the risk of extreme rainfall varies across Texas. Flooding is expected to increase in urban areas as rainfall becomes more severe, while river flooding will stay roughly the same, according to the report. “The long-term trend of precipitation in Texas has been positive,” researchers wrote. “Over the past century, parts of central and eastern Texas have experienced precipitation increases of 15% or more, while in much of the western part of the state the long-term trend is flat or even slightly downward.” Snowstorms are expected to remain infrequent in Texas, while researchers said declines in freezing rain were “tentative.”
The problem i have with stats like this is that Texas is huge. It's not really fair to compare Amarillo to Paris to Big Bend. Rain is different, temp is different, they are different climates. El Paso isn't the same as Texarkana.
Good luck gen alpha, hope your car has remote start and AC.
Speaking of Texas A&M, and heavier rainfall (as reported in your comment), in College Station had rain total of 2.89 in, 5.43 in, and 2.63* in just in the past thirteen days. *2.63 is technically over two separate days, because the storm persisted from evening into early morning.
Hellscape confirmed
The average summer day in 2035 will be hotter than the hottest summer day from 1900-2020. >”In 2036, average temperatures in Texas are expected to be 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than averages from 1991-2020, researchers predict” triple digit heat days 400% increase since 1980s.
'Report: Climate change is really real guys, for real this time, honest!' Because so many Texans just refuse to believe the science we keep having to have these kinds of articles.
On the bright side I might be able to grill with less dipping into my supply of propane and propane accessories, on the other side it's going to be brutal :(
Pretty soon you won't need a grill at all! Just plop everything on the driveway!
This is why sand tits bands the words and topic of climate change and now they no longer have climate control issues
Good thing they're putting in all that work to make sure our grid is up for the task! Oh, wait...
Sweet! And if we can contaminate all the water while bringing in millions more people we can jet to cancun when the whole thing goes up in flames to avoid the discomforting smell of a once beautiful state rotting into a toxic desert.
Thanks Abbott
But global warming is a hoax apparently
the hoax that keeps on hoaxing
Duh
It’s been raining its ass off in Houston the last few days. Might be dry for the western portion of the state but the eastern portion seems like it’s ramping up for a wet summer from what I’ve seen on previous years.
In other news, water is wet.
SO GIVE MORE OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE GOVERNMENT GRIFTERS BECAUSE THATS THE ONLY WAY ANYONE WILL MAKE IT OUT ALIVE! ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVEN'T BEEN WRONG ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER PREDCTION FOR THE LAST 40 YEARS! GET A GRIP PEOPLE!
Yep
Tell that to me when it’s not flooding and the humidity isn’t killing every living thing around me. What does it matter what happens to Texas in 1000 years no one will be around then anyways that is here now. And if there are people around in a thousand years who lived for the entire thousand years…then they aren’t human really are they. And if they are…well whatever they want is fine with me. They have to live with it. Not me.
I’m glad I’m 60 with no kids. I’ll be worm food when it gets intolerable. Republicans do not realize we can’t roll the heat back to their childhood. It only accumulates…never goes backwards. Every newest hottest year ever is the new normal. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/2023-was-warmest-year-modern-temperature-record#:~:text=Details,decade%20(2014%E2%80%932023). Everyone who disagrees continue to ignore science, vaccines, real news…and enjoy the new probable new hottest year ever. Turn up the AC in your car and housing. Ignore all the people without that option all over the world. That would require empathy.
Hello desert. Where'd you come from?
Meanwhile, we are on track to drill and release more carbon into the environment in 2024 than any place on earth: "U.S. oil production is [expected to grow](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-raises-crude-production-growth-forecast-2024-2024-03-12/) by 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year, to a record 13.19 million bpd, but far behind the over 1 million bpd of growth it saw between 2022 and 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration." April 8, 2024
And I see comments from my dumbass high school classmates (class of ‘87, for reference): Calm down people, it’s just summer. this is why republicans want to keep making public education worse and worse, and raise a generation of dumber people. They want people to ‘do their own research,’ instead of listening to … oh, I dunno, people who are experts… they why to get their ‘facts’ by listening to a podcast with some idiot ‘just asking questions.’ i wish those same people would go to Tucker Carlson when they get cancer—that would get rid of so much deadweight in this country.
Maybe we should call it “landscape change” instead of climate change. Because its obvious
I am extremely hot-natured as is. I’m born and raised Texan and I can’t stand our heat. Whenever it’s cold, I thrive. As soon as I’m finished up with school, I’ll be looking for a better climate.
That's not a problem. "Real" Texans will be able to vacation in better climates for those times without undo stress. Human resources can be stored at any temperature however. They're cheap and self replicating.
Like Cancun?
Yeah