Entries Tagged as 'Weather'
For Dallas/Fort Worth, the month of March — or as I like to call it, “the Schizo Month” — is a transitional one, stuck as it is in the uncertainty between winter and spring. I suppose this is true over most of the Northern Hemisphere, but in my experience it’s especially noticeable here in North Texas. Sure, it’s windy as hell, but that’s to be expected; March is well known, after all, for coming in like a lion. On the other hand, it goes out like a lion, too — although I understand it’s known to go out like a lamb in other climes. If the old saying’s anything to go by, March lasts through mid-April at least in the Metroplex. It’s not just gentle breezes you’ll feel, either. I’ve known March winds to blow a fully loaded book-cart 10+ feet down the sidewalk in front of the little bookshop I used to own, and on most days I could hear it howling around the exterior like a demented ghost.
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Let me tell you something: Dallas/Fort Worth weather is really screwed up lately. It’s rained 18 out of the last 30 days; usually, we get maybe two days of rain in June. It’s good for the lakes and lawns, I guess, but it’s not so good when people start drowning in floods, something we haven’t really seen in years. Our summer has turned hot and soggy, although I suppose all the clouds have kept the heat down a little.
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They say that if you don’t like Texas weather, just wait a few minutes, and it’ll change. Of course they say that about many of the places I’ve visited, and as a former archeologist, I’ve been all over the place. However, in Dallas/Fort Worth, that old saw regarding the weather’s a bit truer than elsewhere. Where else can you have a sudden thunderstorm throwing golf-ball sized hail at you in the middle of a 100-degree July day — and then a clear sky an hour later? Things like that happen all the time here, and I want to prep you for what you can expect, whatever time of year you may visit.
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