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Meteorology

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Ralph Hall Demands to Know What NOAA Spends on Magicians, Comedians, Mind Readers

    Rep. Ralph Hall finally found his General Services Administration-style confab scandal. No, it doesn't involve EPA employees playing a blindfolded game of Crucify the Energy Executive during a conference at The Venetian. But it's the next best thing: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 8, 2012

    Get Your Family Hooked on Art

    Rep. Ralph Hall finally found his General Services Administration-style confab scandal. No, it doesn't involve EPA employees playing a blindfolded game of Crucify the Energy Executive during a conference at The Venetian. But it's the next best thing: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Will It Ever Get Really Cold in Dallas This Winter? Well, As a Matter of Fact ... Maybe?

    ​A few days back the great Alan Melson, KERA's director of interactive, directed his Facebook friends to a great weather-geek (said with all due respect) site where folks are currently having a great debate about whether or not signs point to an icy deep freeze headed toward North Texas toward the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Hammered by the Drought, Texas Ranchers Are Running Out of Cows to Send to Slaughter

    Brandon Thibodeaux​Since we started catching rain in pans and writing down measurements, Texas has never gotten so little rainfall as we have this year. As we reported in our recent story on the cattle industry, we're in uncharted territory. That's why, in August, experts were anticipating ano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    A Decade-Long Drought? Yeah, Maybe So, State Climatologist Says.

    It's all but official now. We've strung together the 12 driest months in Texas history. State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon estimates we got 13.69 inches for the year. The average is 27. It's been hell on ranchers, as we reported in this week's cover story. And it may get worse. Texas A&M put o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Chatting With a NOAA Meteorologist About This Drought: What It Is and What It Ain't

    Photo by Brantley HargroveA stock pond in Archer County​So, what's our problem? Mostly, it's La Nina, that little trollop. She's been messin' with Texas for a long time. And the relationship between her cool Pacific sea-surface temperatures and dry times here is pretty well established. For n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    V Bistro: Next Time, This Party of One
    Will Party Down the Block

    ​As this weather continues playing its schizophrenic mind games, the affect on me is a range of melodramatic "food swings." It's cold. I want something fat. It's hot. Maybe just some fruit. It's cold again. Maybe it's OK if I have a burger as long as I'm wearing a baggy sweater. Nope. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Anyone Seen Schutze This Morning? (Updated)

    ​On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high's too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: "Is the Trinity going to flood?" I told him to leave m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 7, 2010

    From Swelter To Snow

    ​On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high's too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: "Is the Trinity going to flood?" I told him to leave m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2009

    Baby Cardinals

    ​On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high's too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: "Is the Trinity going to flood?" I told him to leave m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Items of Interest, Far As You Know

    ​On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high's too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: "Is the Trinity going to flood?" I told him to leave m ... More >>

  • Music

    February 3, 2005

    Andrew Bird

    Thursday, February 3

  • News

    April 15, 2004

    How Now Mad Cow?

    For Texas cattle ranchers, "What's for dinner?" is a touchy question

  • Best of Dallas

    September 26, 2002
  • Calendar

    April 13, 2000

    Degrees of obsession

    What's Up With the Weather and other small talk

  • Dining

    February 25, 1999

    Hash Over

    What's Up With the Weather and other small talk

  • Film

    May 16, 1996

    And your little dog, too

    Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch

  • News

    July 27, 1995

    Good day for a robbery

    Garvin McCain claims he can tell you when it's safe to go outside

  • Film

    November 10, 1994

    Man trouble

    Screen version of Oleanna comes off shrill, empty

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