Being in Central Texas, we're at the very bottom of tornado alley. (Also, if you remember the Jarrell, TX EF5 tornado that hit in 1997... I lived 25 miles north of that town. We had many EF0s and EF1s in Troy where I lived at the time while the EF5 was occuring).
When I was younger, we'd have a few to several tornadoes every summer. As of the past 5-6 years, there have been tornadoes one summer, then no tornadoes the next, always following that pattern. This summer broke that trend and there have been about 7-10 tornadoes reported within 40 miles of where I live from late May to now, one of the warnings being issued for the city of Morgan's Point Resort...which is where I live and I saw the thing! (MPR is 2.6 square miles and considered a city, but Belton is the "mother-town," if you will, and that's where I say I live when asked... that is if you're not from the area.)
Anyway, as of late, it's been horribly hot like it was every summer when I was younger. The past 6-7 years have shown an unusual trend of being moderately warm for most of the summer, then getting into the triple digits in September while being cold/cool as late as April. Two years ago, it snowed here on Easter day, extremely unusual because the temperature would already be in the high 80s/low 90s by that time.
This summer has also broken that trend, and it's been hot since mid-March, as always. We actually broke a heat record that was set in the 1960s for most consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures (previous record was 29 days, new record is 32 days). The lowest of those triple digit days was 101º, while the hottest day was 112º with a heat index of 116º-117º. Yeah, that's hot. If the humidity is low, it's bearable, but if not, it's absolutely killer. With occasional storms, it'll be horribly humid in the morning, burn off during the day and just be super hot, then once it starts cooling down, it gets very humid again- extremely annoying.
Lowest temperature in my area I've ever experienced: 14º
Highest temperature in my area I've ever experienced: 119º
