{"id":1153,"date":"2018-12-31T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:56:01","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

12.10.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Texas weather: Read all about it<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Weather in Texas: The Essential Handbook<\/span> by veteran Texas meteorologist George W. Bomar<\/span> (University of Texas Press, $24.95 paperback) is essentially an updated third edition of Bomar\u2019s Texas Weather,<\/span> first published in 1983.<\/p>\n

Bomar provides scientific and practical information about Texas weather, including what to do when a tornado threatens, depending on whether you are at home, at school, in a high-rise building, a mobile home, a hospital, a shopping mall, a vehicle, or outdoors.<\/p>\n

The thirty-page appendix section is full of interesting statistical data statewide and city by city. For example, the coldest temperature ever observed in Abilene was minus 9 degrees on Jan. 4, 1947. The coldest in Laredo: (plus) 16 degrees, Dec. 21, 1973. Lubbock: minus 17, Feb. 8, 1933. Dalhart: minus 21, Jan. 4, 1959.<\/p>\n

Abilene\u2019s hottest? 111, Aug. 3, 1943. Lubbock, 114, June 27, 1994. Childress, Presidio, Wichita Falls and Wink topped out at 117.<\/p>\n

Remember how hot it was in the spring and summer of 2011? That year Abilene had a record 81 100-degree days, San Angelo and Wichita Falls 100, and Laredo a scorching 145 100-degree days. Of course, some of the statistical records, especially related to rainfall, probably became outdated because of Hurricane Harvey while Weather in Texas<\/span> was at the printer.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew subjects evoke as many tall tales and jokes as the weather,\u201d writes Bomar, \u201cespecially the varieties that legitimize Texas as one of the more interesting places on Earth to visit \u2014 or live.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few years ago I penned a poem about Texas weather, and it seems an appropriate time to share it:<\/p>\n

Texas Weather (It Could Be Verse)<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavy rains are predicted in Beaumont, of course. Snow flurries are likely<\/p>\n

at Amarillo and Morse.<\/p>\n

Watch out for tornadoes around Wichita Falls. To beat the heat in Dallas,<\/p>\n

hang out in the malls.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re fryin\u2019 in Bryan, it\u2019s clear in the east. There are blizzards in Winters<\/p>\n

(until noon at least).<\/p>\n

A norther is blowing from Lubbock to Post. There\u2019s a hurricane watch<\/p>\n

on the Texas Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

Drought conditions continue around Abilene. The Hill Country\u2019s having<\/p>\n

the worst flooding they\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

After scanning the radar, I think you could say: for Texas weather it\u2019s just<\/p>\n

a typical day.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Mucho queso:<\/span> A whole cookbook devoted to chile con queso? Seriously? Yep.<\/p>\n

Lisa Fain, best known for The Homesick Texan<\/span> cookbook, turns her culinary attention to queso in Queso! Regional Recipes for the World\u2019s Favorite Chile-Cheese Dip<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Ten Speed Press, $15 hardcover). The book includes more than fifty recipes, including Chicken Fried Steak with Queso Gravy, Austin-Style Vegan Queso, West Texas Green Chile Queso Blanco, and Gulf Coast Crab Queso.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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