Hubble Space Telescope fails
    Hubble Space Telescope, which has brought us many wonderful deep space images, is experiencing serious equipment failure.    The problem showed up Saturday and is keeping the telescope from relaying data and images to Earth.    Scientist are ...

Tropics getting busy
    It looks like the tropics are coming alive again.    The good news is the two systems being watched by the National Hurricane Center don’t pose a threat to the Texas Coast.    After several days of floundering ...

Astroimages for you desktop
   Astronomy buffs looking for a way to dress up their computers might want to check the Astronomy magazine Web site.    You can download a variety of really cool astroimages and use them for wallpaper.    Choose from stars, ...

Hurricane season isn't over for Texas yet
    Is anybody out there convinced the threat of hurricanes or tropical storms is over for Texas?    The early cold fronts start arriving this time of year, signaling a change in the steering currents that take tropical cyclones ...

Autumn's arrival
   I had a request from Fatboy for information on when fall arrives.    It begins at 6:44 a.m. Monday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's when the sun passes over the equator as it migrates south, ...

Ike's storm surge could have caused serious problems locally
    Had Hurricane Ike moved inland on the San Antonio Bay as first forecast, the storm surge could have been serious.    A National Weather Service storm surge map shows that even a Category 2 hurricane’s surge could cover ...

Be sure to catch the planets tonight
    The sun is setting earlier and the weather is much nicer in the evenings.    Now seems like a good time to get outdoors and do a little sky watching. Just don’t forget the mosquito repellent.    There ...

Hurricane Ike's wild winds
   It’s hard to believe, but places as far away as Ohio had substantially stronger winds from Hurricane Ike than did Victoria.    Blogger Jeff Masters reported on the Weather Underground Web page that those wind gusts ranged from 61 ...

Ike is still approaching the coast
    Did anyone catch that spectacular sunset?    I was sitting on the patio looking east after getting the grass mowed. What a sight as the sun's rays bounced off Hurricane Ike's cloud shield.    But on the far ...

The sun is shining bright
    I just had a chance to get outside and take a look at the sky over Victoria.    The bright sun is being filtered by the bands of cirrus clouds that are beginning to arrived in advance of ...

Ike is coming
    Powerful Hurricane Ike continues to move toward the Texas Coast this morning.    It looks like the center’s landfall will be in just west of Galveston at 1 a.m. Saturday. Pray for those folks.    But don’t let ...

Is Ike headed our way?
    Lots of folks are pondering exactly where Hurricane Ike will make landfall as it generally moves toward Texas.    I certainly don’t have the answer and I suspect the National Weather Service forecasters are grappling with that question. ...

When will the next hurricane strike?
   Here’s an interesting fact: The Texas Coast gets hit by a hurricane an average of every 2.6 years.    That’s based on a report prepared by Senior Forecaster Tim Tinsley with the National Weather Service office in Corpus Christi. ...

Spectacular sunrises and sunsets reported
   I don’t know if any of you caught the sun rising over Victoria this morning, but it was remarkable.    People across the United States and Europe are reporting spectacular sunrises and sunsets.    Spaceweather.com reports it’s probably because ...

The peak of hurricane season is here
Will it ever end? The tropical systems are lined up from the United States nearly to Africa. There are four. Count them. Four storms as of midday Tuesday. Tropical Depression Gustav was playing out over Louisiana and Arkansas. But tropical ...