100 Degree Days in Texas

I spent several hours today compiling 100 degree stats from various cities around Texas.  It's not easy to get these official numbers.  You have to go to each National Weather Service website for each area in Texas.  Then you have to dig thru the climate pages.  In some cases, you have to go day by day and count the number of 100 degree days.  It was quite the task.  I posted the results on our CBS 11 STORM TEAM BLOG.  I am really proud of that blog.  Myself and the CBS 11 Storm Team really spend a great deal of time updating it.  I hope it becomes a well know vehicle to get weather information out to North Texas.  I also am pretty aware that all my hard work will probably be copied by other stations.  I wouldn't be surprised to see the information I collected turn up on other stations soon.  That's the way it goes.  But I am very proud that I was the first to show the information to North Texas.  Here are the numbers as of Sept. 28, 2011.

CITY                       THIS YEAR           RECORD

DFW                      70                           69 in 1980

San Angelo         100                         60 in 1969

Abilene                80                           46 in 1934

Wichita Falls       100                         79 in 1980

Midland               65                           52 in 1964

Lubbock               48                           29 in 1934

Childress              99                           71 in 1934

El Paso                  50                           62 in 1994

Austin                   89                           69 in 1925

San Antonio       57                           59 in 2009

Del Rio                  85                           78 in 1953

Houston               46                           32 in 1980

College Station  68                           58 in 1917

Laredo                  145                         115 in 1998

Victoria                 57                           47 in 1912

Waco                     89                           63 in 1980

Amarillo               50                           26 in 1953

On the Big, Big Screen!

Jeff Burkett took this picture of me on the world's largest HD TV at Cowboys Stadium.  It is so cool that I get to give the forecast before the Dallas Cowboy's game.  We tape this a few hours before it runs.  I have never seen it in person as I have yet to attend a Cowboy's game.  They say TV adds 10 pounds, I wonder if this TV adds 100?

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