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What is the outlook for the remainder of the year (2012) …precipitation...

ANSWER Statewide: West Texas will likely continue in drought with easing later in the year; East Texas: I expect near to above normal precipitation at least for the next two or three months–and...

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What is your forecast for the summer of 2012?

What is your forecast for the summer of 2012? Is this summer looking like a repeat of summer 2011 as far as temperatures and rainfall? It would be nice if we could just have a normal summer with...

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I’m confused about the tropical storm names this season. I thought we went...

I’m confused about the tropical storm names this season. We had Alberto, then Hurricane Bud. Now we have Tropical Storm Beryl. Where did Bud fit in? I thought we went straight through the alphabet?!...

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Regarding the thinning of the Arctic sea ice, what are your opinions on the...

In reference to your earlier response regarding thinning of the Arctic sea ice, what are your opinions on the weather effects it will have? Specifically to satisfy my curiosities, I’m interested if it...

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Could you explain this statement: “The 500-mb. Height is 590 dm and rising,...

Could you explain this statement: “The 500-mb. Height is 590 dm and rising, so the warming-up persists.” Answer The 500-mb (millibar) height refers to the oint in the atmosphere at which the air...

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If a named storm is in the Pacific and crosses to the Gulf of Mexico will it...

If a named storm is in the Pacific and crosses to the Gulf of Mexico will it be re-named? ANSWER: Yes, it is–and it has occasionally happened. RKP

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How do you know without a calendar that we are heading towards fall?

The best way is to note the sun angle at solar noon. Solar noon here is about 1:21 p.m. CDT; the sun angle decreases by about one degree every four days. What you could do is this: place a stake in the...

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Does the wind ever get over 5 MPH at Verkhoyansk, Russia?

Does the wind ever get over 5 MPH at Verkhoyansk, Russia? Everytime, any season, I look at their weather, the wind is calm or 2 MPH. ANSWER: Sir, Russian stations report in MPS–meters per second; to...

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Do sea breezes always blow toward beach, like in Corpus?

Do sea breezes always blow toward beach, like in Corpus? Seems that during a cold front, breezes would blow toward water. ANSWER: Sir, When it is the sea-breeze, it blows landward; when the wind blows...

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What is your prediction for drought probabilities in 2013?

ANSWER: I believe we’ll run snear to below normal in rainfall through about March; beyond that, the elong-range outlooks are taking us back to normal. This sounds pretty reasonable as there is no...

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Why do you use millibars as a unit of measure and barometric pressure is...

Why do you use millibars as a unit of measure and barometric pressure is measured with something else? ANSWER: It is the international standard; inches are only used in public NWS products; the...

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Do australia’s cold fronts come from antartica and are they like ours?

Do australia’s cold fronts come from antartica and are they like ours? ANSWER: Yes, they do. Theirs are not as intense as ours because theirs travel over about 2,500 miles of ocean before reaching...

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Ask Dr. Bob: Why do we hear both terms “wind” and “winds”?

Ask Dr. Bob: Why do we hear both terms “wind” and “winds”? Isn’t wind singular, as in “wind is out of the southwest” instead of “winds out of the southwest”? Just a curiosity that came to me this...

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Ask Dr. Bob: Seems most of the fronts/thunderstorms arrive in Tyler around...

Ask Dr. Bob: Seems most of the fronts/thunderstorms arrive in Tyler around 5:00am. ANSWER No, Sir, not that I know of; the past several have, indeed, arrived at about that time; this is part of the...

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Why does Dr. Bob sign off, “I’m Dr. Bob Peters and that’s thirty”?

ANSWER In the days of linotype machines for setting type, multiple pages of copy contained the footer “-more-” at bottom of each page. The end of the copy on the last page carried the footer “-30-”....

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