San Augustine, Texas Weather Summary for April 2016

 

 

The following San Augustine, Texas, Weather Summary is provided to you by Tom Johnson and taken from his weather station site that feeds both the National Weather Service (MD5632) & the Weather Underground (KTXSANAU6). You can view the location as it now has a webcam operational.  

 

April 2016 - Temperatures

- The 28th was the warmest daytime reading at 88.4 degrees @3:43pm. 

- The coolest/High temp day was 66.3 degrees on the 3rd @10:30pm.

- The warmest evening came in at 70.8 degrees on the 25th @11:59pm.

- The coolest evening temp was 36.9 on the 3rd @6:36am.

 

           April 2016 - Rain

- In the rain department, we closed out April above normal by .28 inches with 4.25 inches of rainfall.

- The month had 15 days with at least .01 of an inch

- The month had 14 days with at least .10 of an inch

- There was 1 day with 1 inch or more of rainfall.

- The 20th was the wettest day with 1.89 inches of rain

- April’s 4.25 inches places us above normal for Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/ in 2016. 

- The 38 year annual average after last year is 50.87 inches a year.  We are at 20.19” or…. +2.89” for 2016 at this point in the year.

- Norman Neel in the North part of SA County put 6.64 inches in his rain bucket with 2.71 coming with this last event. His neighbor to his North recorded ¾” hail stones.

-KTXBROAD2 reported 7.66 inches of rain for the month of April.

-I will send our other updates as I get them from our rain gauge folks.

 

 

 

April 2016 - Wind 

- April’s 30 days rather calm wind speeds hourly average was .6 MPH.

- During the month we had 27 of those days with gusts exceeding 10 MPH. Most associated with cold fronts. Three of those days had 20+ mph gusts.

- A total of 15 days of wind from E/N/NNE & 15 days of wind from the S/SW which is our normal wind direction during the month of April.

- We had one gust of 24 MPH from the NE on the 30th at 12:42 AM.

 

 

April 2016 - Pollen

- The pollen rebirth was comprised of Cedar, Juniper, grasses, weeds, all of our tree varieties, and all the rainy, warm weather brought back our old standby…mold in Extreme levels…..11,000 parts per million…Whew!

- We are already at a 10.2 out of 12 index level.  This was due to the rain and a rather warm mean temperature of 67.6 degrees for April. 

 

- The pollen is continuing to cause respiratory issues at high rates here in San Augustine County. When mowing and trimming use eye and respiratory masks to reduce inflammation.

 

 

April 2016 - Other

- Mosquitoes’ are out in force due to standing water from all the rain and flooding. Take precautions to protect you, your family, and pets.  I have been using an alternative to using sprays with “DEET”. The brand is SAWYER and it contains no DEET, but rather Picaridin at 20%. It is known to have less side effects than DEET and seems to work well for me.

 

- The Spring Storm Season will still be with us during the Month of May…do you have your contingency plans in place with your family and friends?

 

 

 

REMEMBER: “We should always be prepared for the worst, but expect the best”.  

 

  Also, Hurricane season begins June 1st and runs through the month of November.  The 2016 season is anticipated to be a more active year in the Atlantic due to El Nino winding down and La Nina beginning to reform. I will have more on this next month as the hurricane season gets into full swing.