In article .com, Amandasdaddy wrote:
I heard it is better to fly early in the morning in these areas and be
grounded by arond noonish before the weather gets ugly. Does that
sound about right?

Not really. I spent several years living (and flying) on the Texas Gulf
coast; the issue with afternoons is that it is uncomfortably hot. Well,
in the summer the mornings and evenings are also uncomfortably hot.

However, I did most of my flying after noon (I'm hardly an early riser).
Just pay attention to the weather briefer, make sure you see the radar
yourself and don't fly under/through or too close to thunderstorms. The
usual afternoon storm around coastal Texas is an isolated airmass storm
(not one of the rapacious monsters of the mid-west) and you can steer
around them. They tend to get nastier as you move inland, in my
experience (in the six years I lived on the south side of Houston I
never saw one hailstorm - in fact I've seen more hailstorms in the Isle
of Man than I ever saw in Houston - but the probability of destructive
hail got higher as you went further inland - I saw plenty of hail
reported on the radar or by the weather briefers for the north side of
Houston).

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