July 6, high temp mid 80's and a little gentle rain at 15:00 hours dropping the temp t0 80~ Grilled on the Weber and ate outside. It was wonderful. I've lived here for 30 some years and I can't remember a better spring and early summer as weather goes. I hope I haven't put the whammy on it although forward forecast has no extreme temps and occasional showers. Life is good.

Dallas area here. Love the cool temperatures. Church had a hot dog/burger cookout Sunday and I ate my 2 dogs outside in the shade. Nice.

I'm about to do a cruise of the Columbia River, and the weather up there has been horrendous! 115° in Portland? Wow! Hopefully the river will mitigate that somewhat.

flashguy

Cool spring and summer here too. At my shack near Blue Ridge it was 58 degrees the morning of the fourth of July. 58, in Georgia, in July!
Exceptional.

Up here near Paris TX/OK border, hot hot lol

Closer to the coast myself, but do have family land roughly halfway between Houston and Dallas.

Was up at that property this weekend to do a few things and visit my parents, and I was outside assembling a feeder when the PM storm blew in that hit DFW earlier in the day.

Pointed the direction the clouds were moving from to my father and asked him when he could remember multiple storm systems moving through from the North, in July. He stood there for a few moments and then responded that he actually couldn’t recall.

Been a strange one for sure, but not unwelcome as long as it’s knocking that heat down.

We have been here 10 years and this spring has been the best we have experienced.

It sounds like much of Texas is getting our normal spring and early summer weather. We have been breaking daily highs for a month now. We get a few triple digit temps every year but nothing like this year. The fire season is going to be brutal in the months ahead I'm afraid.

Jim

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Originally posted by golddot:
Up here near Paris TX/OK border, hot hot lol

My Dad lives in Paris. Headed that way tomorrow for a few days.

37 miles East of downtown Dallas, 13 miles East of Rockwall. We have enjoyed this spring and early summer.

Arizona. We're in a heat wave, but that's why God invented Beer and Swimming pools.

I still shoot twice a week, one of them outdoors.

It has been fairly cool here in Houston (for summer), but it is because we have had one of the wettest late springs and early summers I can remember.

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Originally posted by texassierra:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by golddot:
Up here near Paris TX/OK border, hot hot lol

My Dad lives in Paris. Headed that way tomorrow for a few days.[/QUO

we need a DFW GTG for forum members
!

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Originally posted by texassierra:

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Originally posted by golddot:
Up here near Paris TX/OK border, hot hot lol

My Dad lives in Paris. Headed that way tomorrow for a few days.

while you are in Paris, U can try the 107 diner, good but an outdoor venue so depends on weather. the food is pretty good. when you come thru sulphur springs they have a SUPER pizza place called arturos, 5 minutes off I 30 , Paris has a good pizza place called Lazy T's , it is right next to Crazy House western wear and the owner is big time Pro 2 a !

Enjoying it while it lasts.

Usually I can wash cars in July and they stay pretty clean for a month. We have heat driven storms every few days that are kind of messing with normal expectations.

It's nice, but the last two years I was kinda hoping for some typical hotter'n hell Texas summers so as to run off at least a few of these Cali transplants. When next year rolls around and the really oppressive heat comes to stay for a while, the new folks will believe it to be an emergency condition. Like when it's still 100 degrees at 9:30PM and never cools down, other than relative to daytime.

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Originally posted by 83v45magna:


It's nice, but the last two years I was kinda hoping for some typical hotter'n hell Texas summers so as to run off at least a few of these Cali transplants.

Agree. I'm an odd duck though. I am enjoying this 90 degree high temps, but I don't hate the 100 degree days. It might seem weird for a guy born and raised in the Chicago area, but extended/extreme winter as we had last year is tough on me. My diagnosed MDS severely reduces my tolerance to cold weather.

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Originally posted by golddot:

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Originally posted by texassierra:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by golddot:
Up here near Paris TX/OK border, hot hot lol

My Dad lives in Paris. Headed that way tomorrow for a few days.[/QUO

we need a DFW GTG for forum members
!

I agree. Maxey Rifleman Gun Club is less than a mile from my Dad's place so I became a member so I could run down there a plink a bit when I visit.

I have 300 acres, with a KD range of 800 yards ..no neighbors, lots of space LOL

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
It sounds like much of Texas is getting our normal spring and early summer weather. We have been breaking daily highs for a month now. We get a few triple digit temps every year but nothing like this year. The fire season is going to be brutal in the months ahead I'm afraid.

Jim

North Texas is the beneficiary of the portions of Texas along the Gulf Coast being locked in our 3rd extended rain pattern. The amount of rainfall is greater south of I-10 and southwest of Houston (eg Rockport) are flooding. I live north of I-10 so I’m getting 10 or 15 cooler weather than normal, but getting more rain than North Texas and less rain than south of I-10.

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Originally posted by golddot:
we need a DFW GTG for forum members
!

I agree! It's been way too long since the last one. I'm always good to go as long as it's not more than an hour's drive away.

flashguy

Many years ago, several Texas members met at the DFW Gun Club. Not long after many more from Texas and New Mexico met in Weatherford. I lived in San Antonio at the time. His was in the early 2000’s.

We also used to have regular range days at Cedar Ridge Range in Comal County.

I am up for a GTG.