| 2025-05-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-05-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-05-07 | 8:00 AM | 2.21 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | 0.33'' fell around 9 AM, then 1.8-1.9'' fell in 30 minutes, between roughly 10:25-10:55 AM, in training thunderstorms with continuous lightning and intense rain rates. By 1 PM we had full sunshine. |
| 2025-05-06 | 8:00 AM | 1.07 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Dark, foggy morning, occasional thunder, T/Td 63°/62°. Tornado warned storm approaching from the SW. First precipitation yesterday came just before noon in the form of small hail, with thunderstorms and occasionally heavy rain continuing through late afternoon. |
| 2025-05-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-05-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Mostly clear, refreshing 6:03 AM low of 52°F, some weak ACCAS around this morning. Giant sunspot 4079 is visible with no magnification through a solar filter. Chamber of Commerce weather prevailed yesterday with full sunshine, perfectly clear air, 70s temps and only some passing cirrus...unusual for May! |
| 2025-05-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.34 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | 3 or 4 bursts of briefly heavy rain fell between 12-4 PM accompanied by frequent thunder, but none lasted more than 5-10 minutes. |
| 2025-05-02 | 8:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Low 90s temps, low 70s dewpoints and intense sunshine yesterday created instability so strong, you could taste it. Scattered supercells firing in mid afternoon brought a darkening sky, overhead mammatus, and rumbles and flashes all around to the W, N, and E through late evening- but only a brief sprinkle of rain. The best effect was the outflow's cooling and drying, which dropped us to a pleasant overnight low of 63°F under clear starry skies. |
| 2025-05-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Morning streamer shower brought the only measurable sprinkles. Majestic looking, colorful storms rapidly unzipped down a boundary across Williamson County at sunset, with the tail end terminating a couple miles north of here. Frequent lightning was almost all buried in rain and invisible. Still, there's no spectacle quite like a supercellular sunset, a sight that's been sorely lacking in this so-far drab storm season. |
| 2025-04-30 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-26 | 8:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | 'Twas a quick light shower mixed with sunshine. Someday, we will get real thunderstorms again...I can hardly recall a less active spring to this point for us locally. |
| 2025-04-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | 2 brief bouts of large-drop sprinkles fell around 3 PM and then 6 PM as a rainmaker MCS completely missed us to the N and E. |
| 2025-04-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.68 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Slow-moving, messy thunderstorms with frequent, but mostly invisible lightning passed over 2:45-4 AM with a lengthy light to moderate rain. One close strike to power lines a mile distant lit the sky with a bright blue-green glow followed by a shower of sparks! |
| 2025-04-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.30 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | T-storm around 6 AM brought briefly heavy rain and occasional window-rattling thunder for another hour. |
| 2025-04-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-18 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Virga- trailing ACCAS in vicinity this morning, signaling the presence of a cold front somewhere. |
| 2025-04-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Morning stratocumulus are a surprise to see after a solid week's absence of any clouds whatsoever. |
| 2025-04-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 44°F, clear, Venus now visible as the morning star low in the early dawn sky...beautiful morning despite the aggravating levels of oak pollen in the air. |
| 2025-04-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Clear skies and a low of 37°F....30°F at LCRA site Leander 5 W, an unusually late-season freeze! |
| 2025-04-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.04 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.08 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Overnight, just a few faint flashes of sheet lightning through a cold dismal post-frontal low stratus deck and less than a tenth of an inch of rain. Disappointing. |
| 2025-04-04 | 8:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.06 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-04-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-31 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-30 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.90 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Slow, steady, soaking rain showers lasted all day, no thunder associated. |
| 2025-03-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | A thick TCu field developed suddenly out of a clear blue sky to the NW in early afternoon...our first of the season. The tops of the few thunderstorms that materialized near DFW were clearly visible from 170 miles away, including lightning flashes in a cell near Rockwall after dark. |
| 2025-03-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Vigorous thunderstorms popped up all around us through the evening hours just 10-15 miles to our S, E and NE, giving quite a lightning display and lots of low rumbling thunder, but not a drop of rain. |
| 2025-03-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | With a low of 41°F and a high of 71°F, cloudless blue skies and crystal clear air, better weather couldn't have been dialed up for the first day of Spring 2025. |
| 2025-03-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Morning low of 40°F, clear and calm on this first dawn of spring. Excellent transparency as evidenced by the suddenness of the sunrise which became too bright to look at almost instantaneously. |
| 2025-03-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-18 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 58°F, cool sunny dawn with scattered cirrus. Morning chorus includes the Northern Cardinal, Carolina Chickadee, Black-crested Titmouse, Golden-cheeked Warbler, Lesser Goldfinch, White-winged Dove and Bewick's Wren. |
| 2025-03-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 43°F, perfectly clear and calm morning. A pristine clear airmass returned yesterday afternoon, a relief from the dismal dust that has defined much of this month. First bluebonnets bloomed yesterday- a couple weeks later than average. The first leaf buds on most deciduous trees- red oaks, hackberries, etc.- have also suddenly appeared everywhere. |
| 2025-03-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Surprise elevated thunderstorms erupted overnight bringing frequent thunder and lightning around 3 AM along with <2 min of pea-sized hail. ACCAS rows departing to E this morning, visiblility <10 miles due to west TX dust haze. The look of this morning's sky reminds me a lot of the last Dixie High Risk day...March 25 2021. Pressure dropped as low as 29.50 inHg late afternoon yesterday under dusty but cloudless skies...a sure sign of a mega-trough nearby. |
| 2025-03-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Fast-moving waves of thin cirrus alternating with brief clear gaps did not interfere too much with lunar eclipse viewing overnight- always a worthwhile spectacle. First hummingbird of the season is heard outside this morning- an unmistakable sign that spring is here. Same day as the first hummingbird arrival last year, incidentally. Unlike last year, our spring bloom is running behind; no bluebonnets or leaf buds on any deciduous trees yet, excepting the redbuds. |
| 2025-03-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-09 | 8:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Another round of dust through the afternoon yesterday made for hazy conditions again. Where did that come from? A train of weak, short-lived, elevated storms developed to the W and N late last evening, offering infrequent flashes of IC lightning and one pretty, tall, loopy-leaning CG- the first really visible strike of 2025. |
| 2025-03-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Intense pressure gradient winds blowing from the WSW picked up late morning and peaked 1-4 PM; handheld anemometer measured a gust to 53.4mph a 1:32 PM, but some gusts later in the afternoon were even stronger than that, tearing numerous chunks of shingle from the roof. A dust bowl enveloped us between 3-5 PM, a dense brown haze dropping visibility to 2-3 miles and dimming the sun enough that it seemed almost cloudy and shadows became faint. The lighting outside was almost reminiscent of just before / after totality in the solar eclipse last year! |
| 2025-03-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.15 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | High winds gusting to probably 30-40mph struck around 6 AM with Pacific frontal passage. Not much rain and no thunder, or at least not audible over the roar of the wind. 52°F at obs time, westerly breeze, sunny, ragged cloud bank departing to E, skies ashen white with West Texas dust. |
| 2025-03-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.02 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-03-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-28 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Absolutely perfect February morning, warm sun and cool breeze. Scattered ornate cirrus uncinus / fibratus patches moving WNW-ESE in an otherwise deep blue sky. |
| 2025-02-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 0.01 worth of of overnight dense fog, no precip. Sunny and cloudless blue skies by obs time. |
| 2025-02-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.04 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 30°F at obs time, light glaze on vehicles and elevated surfaces from overnight freezing drizzle; pavement wet but un-iced. |
| 2025-02-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-18 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.04 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 29°F, wind chill 17°F, overcast and gusty N winds. Winter is not over. |
| 2025-02-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.38 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | 0.10'' fell just after the 2/11 obs time, 0.28'' came overnight. Frequent sheet lightning piercing through a low-hanging fog layer accompanied by a continuous rumble of thunder began at midnight, but passed by uneventfully to the E. New t-storms passed over 5:45-6:15 AM with briefly heavy rain and a few tremendous crashes of thunder- what a wonderful sound to awake to! |
| 2025-02-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.32 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-10 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | At obs time, T/Td 68°/63°, light southerly breeze, mostly overcast broken Sc with some blue-sky gaps. Morning chorus dominated by Carolina Chickadee, Northern Cardinal, and Black-crested Titmouse songs but I also hear the House Finch, Lesser Goldfinch, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, and Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Another typical spring, not winter dawn, as has been the story all week. |
| 2025-02-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-06 | 8:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | A few light sprinkles early afternoon 2/5/25 |
| 2025-02-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-02-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Cold, still and clear first morning of February, T/Td 39°/21° on our hilltop with a low of 30° and frost in the low elevations. Extraordinary superior mirage on the north and east horizons, the best in memory. |
| 2025-01-31 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Light sprinkles ending just after obs time 1/30/25 |
| 2025-01-30 | 8:00 AM | 1.40 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Thunderstorm with heavy rain and frequent sheet lightning 6:30-7:10 AM brought about 1.2'' of this total in 40 minutes. Temperature dropped from 68°F to 54°F at obs time, still sprinkling lightly from a blue-gray altostratus deck. |
| 2025-01-29 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Eerily dense fog settled in last evening with visibility of barely 100 yds. |
| 2025-01-28 | 8:00 AM | T | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-27 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-26 | 8:00 AM | 0.07 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Drizzle beginning in the early morning hours |
| 2025-01-25 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-24 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Low of 29°F (18°F at LCRA site Leander 5 W), calm and clear dawn. Transparency of the air last night was exceptional; the blinking red lights of an antenna tower 33 miles distant were bright and clear. Patches of snow are still hanging in there on north-facing shaded slopes! |
| 2025-01-23 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Remnant patches of snow are still hanging on in sheltered north-facing spots, despite a high of 53°F yesterday! |
| 2025-01-22 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | T | NA | | Low of 21°F, clear and frosty, about 20% of the ground still covered in remnant snowpack- particularly in wooded spots where the wind-blown fine particles accumulated just as efficiently as on open ground. |
| 2025-01-21 | 8:00 AM | 0.03 | 0.2 | NA | 0.2 | NA | | Light graupel, mixed with some fine snow, fell throughout the night. Roughly 3/16'' average graupel accumulation this morning, deeper in drifts but unevenly distributed with other spots bare. Asphalt roads are dangerously slick, a patchwork of 70-80% snow pellets / ice and 20-30% bare pavement. |
| 2025-01-20 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-19 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 24°F, clear, gusty and downright arctic... |
| 2025-01-18 | 8:00 AM | T | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Trace of sprinkles from virga-trailing mid level clouds around 10 AM was just enough to dampen about half the ground. |
| 2025-01-17 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-16 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-15 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-14 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-13 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-12 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-11 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Low of 29°F (23°F at LCRA site Leander 5 W), clear, cold morning with a beautiful white hoarfrost coat on everything. Our first widespread hard frost of the season in the higher elevations. |
| 2025-01-10 | 8:00 AM | 1.05 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | Drizzle began before noon with a temp of 36°F, becoming a steady, light to moderate rain by 1 PM and continuing through ~9 PM. Temperature briefly dropped to 32°F in late afternoon but mostly hovered around 33-34°F. No icing occurred. |
| 2025-01-09 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | 37°F, overcast with dense "snow clouds" which are, sadly, bearing only the promise of a long day of cold rain. |
| 2025-01-08 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Low of 26°F, overcast with altostratus, classic January morning. An isolated dense swath of particularly scenic altocumulus undulatus hovered over us most of yesterday afternoon. |
| 2025-01-07 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-06 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Low of 24°F, crystal clear and gusty with a wind chill of 14°F at obs time. |
| 2025-01-05 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Overcast, T/Td 64°F/ 60°F, light winds shifting from S to W, 29.95 inHg and rising ahead of the first arctic blast of the season which is just on our doorstep this morning. |
| 2025-01-04 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-03 | 8:00 AM | 0.01 | NA | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-02 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | |
| 2025-01-01 | 8:00 AM | 0.00 | 0.0 | NA | NA | NA | | Clear, 37°F, traces of wispy cirrus and light patchy frost on this first dawn of 2025. We finished 2024 with 28.94'' of precipitation. |