Houston heat does not hide irrigation problems. If one ring of St. Augustine is brown while the rest of the yard is fine, a head is clogged, tilted, or dead — not “the drought.” If you hear a valve hissing in the side-yard box after the zone should have shut off, the diaphragm is bypassing and you are watering the clay, not the turf.
A controller that blanks after an afternoon storm is a surge issue, not a programming issue. We see this weekly from Memorial to the Energy Corridor. Start with sprinkler repair before you buy a new timer; often the panel is fine and a solenoid or rain-sensor short is taking the system down.
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