Denton Climate
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7/3/2008
I just moved to Texas 2 months ago, so this won't be the most objective review of their climate. Denton's weather is like living in an EZ Bake oven with a vacuum cleaner in reverse. That said, the lightening storms are spectacular but if you aren't used to them (like me) they are very scary. The hail storms would be great for a major league team to practice with as they are about baseball size and reconfigure any vehicle left with out shelter. But no worries, there are lots of body shops willing to take your money to make your car look like new again.
Tornado season this year brought more tornados than ever before (I suspect with global warming that trend will continue). Thus, if your house is in the path of one of these spinning vortex's out for a night on the town, you can kiss it good by along with all your charished memories. Then again, you'll probably find it all in a giant 52-card pick up like game fashion strewn in a 1 mile radius of your once charished home. Because they seem to hit at night, you'll be safely in la-la land if it hits your neighborhood.
On a good note, the storms I have watched have actually NOT hit the Denton, Texas region (more often Dallas, Plano, and these areas). We do seem to be in the storms path but according to my neighbor who has lived in the area for 30 years, Denton seems to have a get out of jail free card, because they get to see the action without ending up in the slammer.
Summer lasts for five months here (42% of the year) but decided to grace us early this year (2008) for an extended stay. Yipee! As for the other seasons I've hear they are quite nice and the ice storms of winter make for great slip-n-slide bumper car opportunities to match the dents your car got from the hail storms.
Coming from San Luis Obispo, California and Amherst, New York, Denton, Texas is the perfect book end of my US climate experience.
Lora | Denton, TX