Texas Extreme Weather That Katharine Forgot
By Paul Homewood
Hurricane Carla in 1961 at Freeport.
Katharine Hayhoe assures us that the weather in Texas is getting much more extreme.
I suggest she studies history.
The guys at the Texas Almanac have put together this account of extreme weather records:
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Temperature
Lowest
Tulia, Feb. 12, 1899
-23°F
Seminole, Feb. 8, 1933
-23°F
Highest
Seymour, Aug. 12, 1936
120°F
Monahans, June 28, 1994
120°F
Coldest Winter, 1898-1899
42.5°F
Warmest Summer, 2011
86.6°F
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Wind Velocity
Highest sustained wind
Matagorda – Sept. 11, 1961
SE, 145 mph
Port Lavaca – Sept. 11, 1961
NE, 145 mph
Highest peak gust
Aransas Pass – Aug. 3, 1970
SW, 180 mph
Robstown – Aug. 3, 1970
WSW, 180 mph
These velocities occurred during Hurricane Carla in 1961 and Hurricane Celia in 1970.
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Tornadoes
Since 1950, there have been six tornadoes recorded of the F5 category, that is, with winds between 261-318 mph. They were:
Waco
May 11, 1953
Wichita Falls
April 3, 1964
Lubbock
May 11, 1970
Valley Mills (McLennan Co.)
May 6, 1973
Brownwood
April 19, 1976
Jarrell (Williamson Co.)
May 27, 1997
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Rainfall
Wettest year statewide – 2004 (FNEP)1
40.22 in.
1919 (NCDC)2
41.93 in.
Driest year statewide — 1917 (FNEP)1
14.38 in.
1917 (NCDC)2
14.99 in.
Greatest annual – Clarksville — 1873
109.38 in.
Least annual – Wink – 1956
1.76 in.
†Greatest in 24 hours – Alvin, July 25-26, 1979
43.00 in.
†This is an unofficial estimate of rainfall that occurred during Tropical Storm Claudette. The greatest 24-hour rainfall ever recorded in Texas at an official observing site occurred at Albany, Shackelford County, on Aug. 4, 1978: 29.05 inches.
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Hail
(Hailstones six inches or greater, since 1950)
Winkler County – May 31, 1960
8.00 in.
Young County – April 14, 1965
7.50 in.
Ward County – May 10, 1991
6.00 in.
Burleson County – Dec. 17, 1995
7.05 in.
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Snowfall
Greatest seasonal – Romero3 (Hartley Co.), 1923-1924
65.0 in.
Greatest monthly – Hale Center, Feb. 1956
36.0 in.
Greatest single storm – Hale Center, Feb. 2-5, 1956
33.0 in.
Greatest in 24 Hours – Follett, March 28, 2009
25.0 in.
Maximum depth on ground – Hale Center, Feb. 5, 1956
33.0 in.
http://texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/extreme-weather-records
OK, I know this is six years old, and I’m flogging this a bit. But these con artists need to be held to account, and the only time to do it is after the event when their predictions start unravelling.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Perhaps she should read this:
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Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-european-impacts-climate-ocean.html#jCp
According to NOAA the warmest maximum Summer temperature in Texas in 2011 was 100.1°F. The second maximum was 1934 at 97.4°F. 2011 was also the driest Summer in Texas…2.46 inches.
Paul, just look at the wiki entry for Texan Major Hurricanes.
Texas’s position at the northwestern end of the Gulf of Mexico makes it vulnerable to hurricanes. Some of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history have impacted Texas. A hurricane in 1875 killed approximately 400 people in Indianola, followed by another hurricane in 1886 that destroyed the town, which was at the time the most important port city in the state. This allowed Galveston to take over as the chief port city, but it was subsequently devastated by a hurricane in 1900 that killed approximately 8,000 people (possibly as many as 12,000), making it the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history. Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston Hurricane, Hurricane Carla in 1961, Hurricane Beulah in 1967, Hurricane Alicia in 1983, Hurricane Rita in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008.
1875, 1886, 1900, 1915, 1961, 1967, 1983, 2005 and 2008.
As you can see a major increase in frequency since CO2 increased in the 1950s /Sarc off
/Sarc on . . . Yes, I see that you are on to something.TX had 4 major hurricanes in the 75 years before 1950, and 5 in the 67 years since 1950. My God, that is an increase of 1, and it occurred in a slightly shorter period of time. What more proof do we need? Now, you must see what you’ve done, as Hayhoe may pick up on this and use it as another of her worthless talking points.
/Sarc off
In the nymag.com on 9th July is a fascinating fantasy piece deserving of the Broken Crystal Ball prize (if there is such a thing) – “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells. We’re doomed Captain Mainwaring, we’re doomed …