Is There Such Thing As a Weather Machine?

Day after day, since the weather pattern changed late last week we have seen rain develop north, south, east and west of Austin, but still very little in and around the metro area.

Need proof? The chart below shows where precipitation has fallen the last 7 days.

Note the "hole" centered right over the Austin area.

Back in high school we used to joke that Coach Willig created a weather machine behind The Woodlands High School that placed a "bubble" over the practice field in order to keep the rain away, now I'm starting to wonder if such a machine does exist!

So, why hasn't rain fallen here? Well, there are several reasons (timing, our latitude and position to the coast all play factors), but bad luck is more to blame than anything else.