In brief: Today’s forecast is our GIF to you, our beloved Houston readers. Houston’s weather will be unchanging for awhile, and it’s been five years since we’ve done a GIF-only forecast. So it’s high time we do it again.
Basically our forecast for the next 10 days:
You’ll walk outside every morning, look up, and see this.
Afternoon temperatures will basically feel like…
The humidity will be such that, if you stay outside too long your co-workers will be like …
Rain? There will be …
What will be different this weekend?
Surely a front or something is coming next week to bring some rain, or pull us out of the 90s, right?
So when does this change?
Matt will have a more in-depth forecast for you tomorrow. Probably. Maybe. I guess we’ll see.
There’s not like an auto gif search or anything, but you should be able to drag-n-drop images right into the composer window. There’s also the “upload” button on the composer toolbar, which will open up a file picker and let you select an image or images from your computer or phone. (I just drag-n-drop, though!)
edited to add - you can also copy and then paste an image link, and it should embed the image, I believe. Let me see….
Yep, that worked! I opened a new tab, searched “clapping gif,” clicked a giphy link in the results, and just copied the whole URL and pasted it into the composer window. Discourse should fetch the gif and display it.
I’m reminded of when I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which in the summer tends to have similarly monotonous forecasts. The SF Chronicle Sunday edition would have a 7-day forecast, and for some reason the person writing it would not allow himself to just repeat the same thing seven times. So there were seven variations on “morning overcast clearing later”. Like this:
Sunny after morning low clouds.
Morning low clouds, then sunny.
Low clouds in the morning, then clearing and sunny.
Enjoy the clear skies and watch the ISS fly over tonight! It should be a pretty good show from 8:56 to 9:02. Coming from the West going to the NorthEast at about an 80 degree angle.
Hah! The song is “No Rain,” the hit that defined the one-hit-wonder group Blind Melon in 1993. This song was everywhere for a few months when I was in 10th grade.
2:30 pm here in Katy, and it is raining to beat the band. This site needs to correct its chronic underselling of precipitation, which is just as bad the overhyping seen most elsewhere.
You know they are forecasting for the entire metro…not just you?
I was surprised that SCW didn’t call for any precipitation and by early this morning my location based weather was calling for “some” rain, but ultimately we probably got close to two inches over a few hours and several thunderstorms.
I don’t see an option on my Compose window. I’ve Googled it, but the results were mostly paid add-ons.
