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#6641 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:59 pm

gboudx wrote:
gpsnowman wrote:
Ntxw wrote:I spy with my little eyes, a freak early March cold blast pattern. Tsk tsk...

Yep. Ryan Maue posted an early March map with a nice looking purple blob right over Texas. Not sure if it can be posted here, but it is on his Twitter page.


If it's on Twitter, then it's publicly consumable. Now if it was a pay site with login restrictions, that's different.


Here is the map in question. It's 850mb temperature anomalies valid next Thursday afternoon. I prefer reds/browns over purple...

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#6642 Postby gpsnowman » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:02 pm

gboudx wrote:
gpsnowman wrote:
Ntxw wrote:I spy with my little eyes, a freak early March cold blast pattern. Tsk tsk...

Yep. Ryan Maue posted an early March map with a nice looking purple blob right over Texas. Not sure if it can be posted here, but it is on his Twitter page.


If it's on Twitter, then it's publicly consumable. Now if it was a pay site with login restrictions, that's different.

Gotcha. Thanks.
And wxman57, your reds and browns will be here for a loooong time, in just a few weeks. Let us have our fun for just a little bit longer then the next several months are yours. :D
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6643 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:54 pm

At least "March" sounds warmer than "February". This has been the worst winter in at least the last 10 years. All cold and rain (no snow). No warmth for more than a day or two at a time, and only rarely. I'm hoping next Wednesday's front will be the last big cold front of this winter...
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6644 Postby Brent » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:05 pm

wxman57 wrote:At least "March" sounds warmer than "February". This has been the worst winter in at least the last 10 years. All cold and rain (no snow). No warmth for more than a day or two at a time, and only rarely. I'm hoping next Wednesday's front will be the last big cold front of this winter...


I actually agree with most of this.

The world must be ending. :double:
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6645 Postby Tireman4 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:09 pm

wxman57 wrote:At least "March" sounds warmer than "February". This has been the worst winter in at least the last 10 years. All cold and rain (no snow). No warmth for more than a day or two at a time, and only rarely. I'm hoping next Wednesday's front will be the last big cold front of this winter...


I am not looking forward to Summer. Another season of 95 plus temperatures...sigh
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6646 Postby Portastorm » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:12 pm

Brent wrote:
wxman57 wrote:At least "March" sounds warmer than "February". This has been the worst winter in at least the last 10 years. All cold and rain (no snow). No warmth for more than a day or two at a time, and only rarely. I'm hoping next Wednesday's front will be the last big cold front of this winter...


I actually agree with most of this.

The world must be ending. :double:


It must be, because I agree as well! Yikes!! :eek:

Heck, I'd take a La Nina winter over this one any day. At least in Ninas there's usually several fronts of very strong magnitude and the jet buckles enough to allow the jet stream across the state fairly well south. Austin's last snow event was from a Nina-induced Arctic blast. And then, between the huge fronts, we'd have nice, warm weather. Only downside is those winters aren't good for drought-stricken areas.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6647 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:23 pm

To go along with Portastorm's new avatar, let's think happy thoughts about March. Here's a picture I took along the bike trail north of downtown last March...

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#6648 Postby Tireman4 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:25 pm

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait just a dadgum minute. Is this not a Winter thread? Do we not have a Spring thread? My gracious. I am still in Winter mode.....
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6649 Postby downsouthman1 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:25 pm

wxman57 wrote:To go along with Portastorm's new avatar, let's think happy thoughts about March. Here's a picture I took along the bike trail north of downtown last March...

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Something tells me they're not gonna bloom this year.
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#6650 Postby Texas Snowman » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:26 pm

Per Norman NWS: Winter Weather Advisory, one to three inches along the Red River in Oklahoma.

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
300 PM CST THU FEB 26 2015

OKZ047-048-051-052-270500-
/O.NEW.KOUN.WW.Y.0025.150227T1800Z-150228T0600Z/
JOHNSTON-ATOKA-MARSHALL-BRYAN-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TISHOMINGO...ATOKA...MADILL...DURANT
300 PM CST THU FEB 26 2015

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON FRIDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON FRIDAY TO MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY NIGHT.

* TIMING: LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

* MAIN IMPACT: 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW.

* OTHER IMPACTS: SLICK AND HAZARDOUS ROADS CAN BE EXPECTED...IMPACTING THE FRIDAY EVENING COMMUTE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE CAREFUL IF YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL. EVEN SMALL AMOUNTS OF ICE AND SNOW CAN MAKE ROADS AND SIDEWALKS SLICK AND DANGEROUS.

&&

$$

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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6651 Postby downsouthman1 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:26 pm

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#6652 Postby Yukon Cornelius » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:26 pm

I can't believe nobody is talking about the possible winter weather forecasted over the weekend!
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6653 Postby Brent » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:27 pm

Portastorm wrote:
Brent wrote:
wxman57 wrote:At least "March" sounds warmer than "February". This has been the worst winter in at least the last 10 years. All cold and rain (no snow). No warmth for more than a day or two at a time, and only rarely. I'm hoping next Wednesday's front will be the last big cold front of this winter...


I actually agree with most of this.

The world must be ending. :double:


It must be, because I agree as well! Yikes!! :eek:


What? Portastorm and wxman57 agree on something?

Yep it's the apocalypse. :P
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6654 Postby cipher » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:28 pm

TXZ093>095-103>106-117>120-130>133-141-270530-
/O.NEW.KFWD.WW.Y.0005.150227T1200Z-150301T0000Z/
GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-DENTON-COLLIN-HUNT-DELTA-PARKER-TARRANT-
DALLAS-ROCKWALL-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-JOHNSON-COMANCHE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHERMAN...DENISON...BONHAM...PARIS...
DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND...THE COLONY...PLANO...
GREENVILLE...COMMERCE...COOPER...WEATHERFORD...BRIAR...
FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...STEPHENVILLE...
DUBLIN...GRANBURY...OAK TRAIL SHORES...GLEN ROSE...CLEBURNE...
BURLESON...COMANCHE...DE LEON
325 PM CST THU FEB 26 2015

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM FRIDAY TO 6 PM CST
SATURDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE...WHICH IS IN
EFFECT FROM 6 AM FRIDAY TO 6 PM CST SATURDAY.

* LOCATION...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR AREAS GENERALLY ALONG A LINE
FROM COMANCHE TO GRANBURY TO THE DFW METROPLEX NORTHEAST TO
PARIS.

* TIMING...FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

* PRECIPITATION TYPE...SNOW IS LIKELY FRIDAY. VERY LIGHT SNOW OR
FREEZING DRIZZLE IS LIKELY FRIDAY NIGHT. FREEZING RAIN AND
FREEZING DRIZZLE IS LIKELY SATURDAY.

* ACCUMULATION...1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW FRIDAY. LESS THAN A TENTH
OF AN INCH OF ICE FROM FREEZING DRIZZLE OR FREEZING RAIN
SATURDAY.

* MAIN IMPACT...SNOW AND ICE WILL MAKE FOR HAZARDOUS TRAVEL.
TEMPERATURES WILL BE COLD ENOUGH FOR ACCUMULATIONS ON ALL
ROADS...HOWEVER BRIDGES...AND OVERPASSES WILL BE THE MOST AT
RISK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF WINTER
PRECIPITATION MAY CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND PLAN ON SOME TRAVEL DELAYS.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6655 Postby Brent » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:35 pm

If we get more snow than we got yesterday I am going to die laughing...

and unlike yesterday it won't be melting 5 minutes later...
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6656 Postby SouthernMet » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:36 pm

Brent wrote:If we get more snow than we got yesterday I am going to die laughing...

and unlike yesterday it won't be melting 5 minutes later...


Why would you die laughing?
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6657 Postby downsouthman1 » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:39 pm

SouthernMet wrote:
Brent wrote:If we get more snow than we got yesterday I am going to die laughing...

and unlike yesterday it won't be melting 5 minutes later...


Why would you die laughing?

I'm assuming it's because less is being forecast than yesterday's storm.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#6658 Postby Brent » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:41 pm

downsouthman1 wrote:
SouthernMet wrote:
Brent wrote:If we get more snow than we got yesterday I am going to die laughing...

and unlike yesterday it won't be melting 5 minutes later...


Why would you die laughing?

I'm assuming it's because less is being forecast than yesterday's storm.


Yes... the one that's not hyped up like some big snowstorm... :P
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#6659 Postby Texas Snowman » Thu Feb 26, 2015 4:56 pm

:uarrow: I was as disappointed as anyone. But I'm not sure the storm was "hyped."

The low tracked a little further south than forecast. But looking at the rainfall in North Texas and the snowfall in East Texas, everything else was there. Except for that pesky one or two degrees above the ground that kept everything liquefied here in North Texas.

Steve McCauley even went as far as saying on his Facebook page last night that his Stat Method was wrong. But he said it would have been wrong even if the warm nose hadn't prevailed. Why? Because his snowfall accumulation predictions (which were the most aggressive of anyone in the Metroplex) were underdone. He believed that there would have been four to nine inches of snow if not for the warm nose.

So I'd say everything was there...except for one major ingredient. Alas, the difficulty of getting snow in Texas. :)
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#6660 Postby Brent » Thu Feb 26, 2015 5:02 pm

Texas Snowman wrote::uarrow: I was as disappointed as anyone. But I'm not sure the storm was "hyped."


When I heard TV mets on the 10pm news calling for whiteout conditions and someone seeing 6 inches of snow... to me that is hype.
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