WTF? Wednesday

Where're The Fifties?
You thought WTF stood for anything else?
The TCEQ had 82°F during my morning run from 4AM to 5AM. Walking out the door at 0355 this morning was like going into a sauna. Before the second half of October we should have had lots of mornings in the 60s and even a few in the 50s or, dare I say, 40s. Not this year.

My shoes went soggy and squishy just after six miles this morning and I cut a planned 8¼ mile run down to 7¾. I dragged myself as quickly as I could back into the air conditioning. I drank six pounds of water this morning and I still weighed over five pounds lighter than Monday morning. It was tough.

The 8-16 day forecast model shows excellent weather for the half marathon on Sunday the 28th: Low near 50 with a high near 60 and a north wind less than 10 mph
That would be so nice! Too bad it's just the long range forecast.

Here's a climate discussion from the National Weather Service:
IF YOU THINK IT`S BEEN UNSEASONABLY WARM...YOU`D BE CORRECT. IAH TIED A RECORD HIGH TODAY BUT THE REAL STORY IS THE PROLONGED UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPS. IAH HAS YET TO RECORD ONE DAY IN OCTOBER WITH AN AVG DAILY TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL. IAH HAS AN AVG TEMP OF 78.5 DEGREES FOR OCT (+5.9). IT HAS BEEN WARM FOR A WHILE - IAH HAS NOT HAD AN AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL SINCE SEPT 2 2007. LOOKING BACK...SEP HAD ONE DAY WITH A BELOW NORMAL TEMP...AUG ALSO HAD ONE DAY WITH A BELOW NORMAL TEMP (8/16 - TS ERIN)...JULY HAD 18 DAYS WITH THE AVG TEMP BELOW NORMAL AND JUNE HAD 5 DAYS BELOW NORMAL. IF THE AVG DAILY TEMPERATURE AVERAGES 74.1 DEGREES OVER THE LAST 14 DAYS OF THE MONTH...THIS WILL BE THE WARMEST OCTOBER ON RECORD (76.5 DEGREES IN 1947). FWIW...IAH IS ONLY 4.92 INCHES FROM TIEING THE 10TH WETTEST YEAR IN RECORDED HISTORY (62.51 INCHES - 1907).