WEATHER-NERDISM:
After 3 winters traveling and camping on or near the Gulf of Mexico coast I've learned this, winter-weather-wise: It's all about the wind direction. When it's blowing from the south, off the Gulf, it's going to be warm, usually humid, possibly wet. When it's blowing from the north, a continental air mass, it's going to be cold, usually dry, possibly sunny.
That may be obvious, meteorologically, but living on the west coast I never experienced it. OK, after that long intro, here's some actual data to illustrate, which I got using my new weather gadget (which I'll describe in a separate post).
Here on the central Gulf coast of Texas, it had been a south wind (off the Gulf) for a few days: warm and so humid that there was fog. The forecast showed that the wind would shift to out of the north early Thursday (yesterday) morning. Here's what my weather instrument recorded for dew point (absolute humidity) during that period:
A drop in dew point of >25°F in about 3 hour!
I don't have an anemometer, so I can't personally tie the wind 'cause' to the humidity 'effect', but I looked it up, and the wind direction did change from south to north between 5 and 6am.
I'm enjoying the cooler but drier: I can do something to counter cold, but I can't counter damp.
The weather: it's always sumthin!
After 3 winters traveling and camping on or near the Gulf of Mexico coast I've learned this, winter-weather-wise: It's all about the wind direction. When it's blowing from the south, off the Gulf, it's going to be warm, usually humid, possibly wet. When it's blowing from the north, a continental air mass, it's going to be cold, usually dry, possibly sunny.
That may be obvious, meteorologically, but living on the west coast I never experienced it. OK, after that long intro, here's some actual data to illustrate, which I got using my new weather gadget (which I'll describe in a separate post).
Here on the central Gulf coast of Texas, it had been a south wind (off the Gulf) for a few days: warm and so humid that there was fog. The forecast showed that the wind would shift to out of the north early Thursday (yesterday) morning. Here's what my weather instrument recorded for dew point (absolute humidity) during that period:
A drop in dew point of >25°F in about 3 hour!
I don't have an anemometer, so I can't personally tie the wind 'cause' to the humidity 'effect', but I looked it up, and the wind direction did change from south to north between 5 and 6am.
I'm enjoying the cooler but drier: I can do something to counter cold, but I can't counter damp.
The weather: it's always sumthin!