Stan Blazyk is a life-long weather enthusiast, long-time Galveston resident and author of "A Century of Galveston Weather." He has written about weather for The Daily News for more than a decade.
An upper-level high pressure ridge over Texas and south-southwest winds are bringing extreme summer heat to Galveston. Although high temperatu…
The past few days have featured light winds and blue water at the beaches, along with seasonably warm temperatures. This will change as we fin…
The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch for Galveston County and surrounding areas from tonight through early Thursday mor…
The official 2019 season for the Tropical Atlantic Basin begins tomorrow. As if on schedule, we do have an area of broad low pressure moving n…
Water levels remain above normal this morning over the Bay and along the coast as brisk southerly to southeasterly winds persist. Wind gusts l…
Low pressure over the Oklahoma Panhandle and high pressure to the east is creating a strong pressure gradient and strong southerly winds over …
It should come as no surprise that the first two weeks of May have been exceedingly wet in Galveston County. The National Weather Service Offi…
Showers and thunderstorms continue to develop along and off the Texas coast this morning. The storms are associated with a stationary frontal …
Thunderstorms rolled across Galveston County yesterday afternoon into this morning. Rainfall amounts varied quite widely from less than an inc…
An upper-level disturbance moving northeastward out of Mexico, combined with a stalled frontal boundary along the lower Texas coast, will brin…
Rusty, I appreciate your concerns. Certainly there are areas of the County who can get by with little or no rain over the coming week or two. However, gardeners closer to the coast are noticing a distinct drying of the soil, which will gradually get worse without additional rainfall. Hopeful…
Thanks for the compliment, Jarvis.
At this point, it is not looking like that. In fact, the latest Euro and GFS models are trending for slightly less colder conditions locally. Freeze on the Island and near the Bay looking less likely. Still possible over inland areas of the County.
Thanks for the report.
3.29 inches at Scholes Field in Galveston and 4.29 at League City (both counting some light rain on Saturday).
Gary, with 52.18 inches of rain so far, 2018 is already wetter than average (annual 30 year average is 50.76 inches for January 1 through December 31. This makes the 4th consecutive year of above average rainfall in Galveston.
Let's hope it doesn't become the 4th. Still I would rather be in our shoes than in Wilmington North Carolina's shoes.
Thanks for the report. Although I haven't emptied the gauge yet at our house, it seems as though our storm total will reach or exceed 10 inches.
Gary, you are correct that large, stagnant upper-level high pressure systems are almost always associated with hot, dry weather. While looking at the daily record highs and lows is useful for assessing how extreme any weather event may be, I find it more useful to focus on the longer term pa…
Stan Blazyk commented on A look at our heat and the chambers’ early role in Hurricane Warnings
Gary, this column was not about global warming, but the local weather. But, since you brought this up, I need to point out a couple of misconceptions. First, the fact that there have been warm and cold cycles is not disputed by any climate scientist. However, just as the fact that there f…