Then I moved on to an experimental drinking the bartender has been workshopping: I made it for happy hour and enjoyed an Army Navy. It's a solid mix of new and old, all executed very well. Thanks for donating today.The Joy of Drinking now has an Austin office! In other words, I moved to Austin and am exploring the cocktail scene. Your gift helps pay for everything you find on and KUT.org. If you found the reporting above valuable, please consider making a donation to support it here. And, you know, with the above-normal temperatures, the need for cooling, I think consumers' wallets are gonna take big hit this summer.' Power prices have increased about 40 percent or so in the last six, seven months. 'Second thing would be the impacts on people's pocketbooks or wallets. First thing would be making sure we have adequate power.'

'I would look for that to be broken again. 'I would look for those values as summer wears on,' he said. Power demand surpassed 75 gigawatts, breaking a record set in 2019. 1 is power usage and power supply, Murphy said, noting that Texas set an all-time record for usage on Sunday. » RELATED: Texas' weather this spring is feeling ‘eerily similar' to 2011, a big drought year What are the biggest concerns for Texans? And you sort of get back into this sort of a feedback cycle, if you will.' So, we don't see much improvement in that regard. Now, obviously, that hasn't materialized, unfortunately,' he said. 'June should be one of the wetter months of the year for a lot of Texas, at least the first couple of weeks of June.

to cool off is through rainfall, which the state hasn't seen so far this month.

The two go hand-in-hand, Murphy said: During the summertime, one of the only ways for Texas and much of the southern U.S. 'At the end of the day, probably a degree or two worth of cooling, today, yesterday through tomorrow or so, and then a couple of degrees worth of warming back up again later in the week and over the weekend.' What is the impact of this oppressive heat on the current drought conditions across the state? 'That dome of high pressure sort of shifted eastward yesterday and today, so, we'll see the slight little cool off – but then it shifts back westward over us over the weekend, so we heat back up a little bit,' he said.

What kind of weather events are causing this heat wave?Ī dome of high pressure has been sitting over Texas, Murphy said, bringing cloudless skies and a lot of sinking motion in the atmosphere, which helps heats things up. Basically, temperatures hovering around 100 degrees or so, or maybe 101 or so, across the major cities,' he said. 'And that's probably about where we're a stay at for the next week or so. Temperatures have cooled off a little bit from record-breaking heat over the weekend – 109 in Abilene and 105 in Austin and San Antonio – and should cool another degree or two today. Well, that depends on how you define 'soon,' Murphy said. Summer heat waves are typical in Texas, but experts say climate change is affecting their severity – and according to a recent report by the state climatologist, the annual surface temperature by 2036 is expected to be 3 degrees warmer than the average for the last half of the 20th century.īut right now, as a statewide heatwave puts strains on our infrastructure, when will we get a break? Victor Murphy – a meteorologist with the National Weather Service and the climate services program manager for its Southern Region Headquarters, based in Fort Worth – shared his outlook on Texas' weather: Will we be getting a break from the heat anytime soon? Pérez / KUT Water misters help patrons cool off in the summertime heat at Guero’s Taco Bar in Austin.

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