Today, Norman Neel in the North part of SA County picked up a nice .16 inches while Geoff Reeder just a mile down the road only saw .05 hit his rain gauge. Here in San Augustine we had .25 and the Broaddus area in the South part of SA County had a nice .27 inches. Coming home from Houston I was in a 2.29 inch downpour SE Loop 10 and another .74 inch as I tried to make my way into Humble where I had to stop again for 15 minutes to let the storm pass. The chances for rain have diminished for tomorrow even though the cold front has not yet passed through East Texas. It seems to have lost the favorable pattern for rain making...temps still in low to mid 80's for highs...what would you think about some 50's for lows Saturday and Sunday evenings....really....50's!!  We'll see.el Nino and Wetter and Cooler Weather still on tap for usThe current El Nino phenomenon, a global weather pattern known to wreak havoc every few years, should last until spring and likely become one of the strongest on record, forecasters said Thursday.That expected strength makes El Nino likely to peak in late fall or early winter and bring more precipitation than normal to the drought-stricken southwestern United States, the US Climate Prediction Center said."At this point it could be one of the three strongest El Ninos we have seen," Mike Halpert, deputy director of the center, told reporters.Between June and August, average sea surface temperatures in affected regions were the third-warmest since record keeping began, the center said, behind 1987 and 1997."In any measure, 1997 was still stronger than we are seeing right now," said Halpert.Forecasters placed the likelihood at 95 percent that this El Nino, in which warmer Pacific waters cause changes to global weather circulation, will last until spring.And it placed the likelihood that the southwestern US states will see much-needed wetter-than-normal winters between 33 and 60 percent, depending on region.But Halpert said the most reliable prediction they have regarding El Nino's impacts is that the Gulf of Mexico and bordering regions will have a wetter and cooler than normal winter."At this point we have fairly high probability for that," he said.It is also expected to contribute to warmer than average temperatures in Alaska, Canada, and the northern, western and central United States. Tom JohnsonKTXSANAU6