>>Are all (or any) of the mets/strong posters (that's you HF & Steve) convinced we're free of any Gulf (or anywhere else) nonsensical chances at least 6/20-ish & beyond?

It's a tossup, but I think something's going to try to go once upper ridging sets up in the Southern Gulf. I checked out some of the upper air charts and they are less conclusive than what they were Monday, but the opportunity for a go will be there in the next few days as that ULL clears the picture. We're going to have to wait and see how everything evolves.

In the meantime, Texas has been getting swamped by deep flow. We caught a break here today in SE LA dodging the rain for the first time in about 2 weeks.

Steve