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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2081 Postby Brent » Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:24 pm

Lol how is that area between Cisco and Granbury so lucky again :spam:

Oh and like 50 people live in Mosheim :lol:

I'm still amazed at the sharp cutoff in the snow between Hillsboro and Waxahachie last night before sunset

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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2082 Postby MSUDawg » Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:37 pm

Blah Blah... nothing burger.
I stayed away from the site for the last day because I'm super jealous of everyone.
Sitting a couple of miles from dfw intl and nothing stuck. I saw some fall but it was just a cold rain to me....

Glad everyone else had fun.
I told my wife, that was the last strike. next year we are going somewhere cold sometime in the winter.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2083 Postby Brandon8181 » Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:41 pm

Could someone give me the quick basics on reading modeling sounding viewer? You know the one with the up and down line and how it relates to snow?
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2084 Postby BigB0882 » Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:45 pm

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BigB0882 wrote:And can someone share the link where the GFS data is shown by the hour through the 300 or so hour period. It shows precip, type of precip, temps, etc. I used to have it bookmarked and can't find it anymore! I don't even remember what the name was.


http://www.tropicaltidbits.com

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http://www.twisterdata.com


Thank you but this was a text only output that would show each hour. For example:

Hour 4 .3 QPF Snow 30degrees 80% humdity

Something like that and it was just for the GFS. It may be something that they are doing away with since they are switching but I am not sure.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2085 Postby Brent » Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:06 pm

BigB0882 wrote:
Brandon8181 wrote:
BigB0882 wrote:And can someone share the link where the GFS data is shown by the hour through the 300 or so hour period. It shows precip, type of precip, temps, etc. I used to have it bookmarked and can't find it anymore! I don't even remember what the name was.


http://www.tropicaltidbits.com

or

http://www.twisterdata.com


Thank you but this was a text only output that would show each hour. For example:

Hour 4 .3 QPF Snow 30degrees 80% humdity

Something like that and it was just for the GFS. It may be something that they are doing away with since they are switching but I am not sure.


something like this? http://wxweb.meteostar.com/sample/sampl ... ?text=KDFW
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2086 Postby Texas Snow » Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:57 pm

After watching models and trends, I bolted for the lake yesterday morning and got there right when it started snowing. Looking at my ring Camera its a good think because the car in our driveway barely had a dusting before melting.

I just got back home and am glad to see all the photos of those that got snow and sad for that that didn't and weren't able to chase.

Here are 3 from mine. Although it's not the best of photos, I really like the night sledding one because we've never done that after dark and had a blast last night. I lovethe last photo because of what its doesn't show, an entire lake behind them obscured by heavy snow :D


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Looking forward to the next one focused on DFW for once :P
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2087 Postby Brent » Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:02 pm

Texas Snow wrote:After watching models and trends, I bolted for the lake yesterday morning and got there right when it started snowing. Looking at my ring Camera its a good think because the car in our driveway barely had a dusting before melting.

I just got back home and am glad to see all the photos of those that got snow and sad for that that didn't and weren't able to chase.

Here are 3 from mine. Although it's not the best of photos, I really like the night sledding one because we've never done that after dark and had a blast last night. I lovethe last photo because of what its doesn't show, an entire lake behind them obscured by heavy snow :D


https://i.imgur.com/Cn0XfvG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6ay7YSA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pmemJTV.jpg

Looking forward to the next one focused on DFW for once :P


Great pictures yeah that's why I had to go drive too I couldn't sit out those rates lol

But I agree on the 2nd part I'm already at 2 chases and it's not even mid January yet :double:
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2088 Postby TexasF6 » Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:39 pm

I noticed a little bowling ball west of El Paso rolling in. Any shot at Freezing Drizzle tonight? Especially with all the wrecks around Austin this AM!
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2089 Postby harp » Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:13 pm

Looks like the system previously shown on the GFS for this weekend has faded away on the last few runs.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2090 Postby Cpv17 » Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:57 pm

harp wrote:Looks like the system previously shown on the GFS for this weekend has faded away on the last few runs.


Yeah it looks like it’s trying to push it back to next Monday or Tuesday. At least the models are showing a lot of below normal temps though.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2091 Postby Portastorm » Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:49 pm

TexasF6 wrote:I noticed a little bowling ball west of El Paso rolling in. Any shot at Freezing Drizzle tonight? Especially with all the wrecks around Austin this AM!


No precip for us but “freezing fog” is in the overnight forecast. And I have to say in the 37 years I’ve lived in Austin, I cannot remember a time when we had freezing fog in one of our forecasts. Crazy.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2092 Postby Browndog » Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:31 pm

So, back out of lurking mode to post some pics of our snow in East Texas. I moved a bit south of Longview to Lake Cherokee in northern Rusk County a few years ago. Here are some pics yesterday evening and this morning. The last one is in southern Rusk County near Mt. Enterprise. We had about 4" at our house on the lake with 6-8" down in the southern part of the county. You can tell that the pine trees were really weighted down with the snow. Sorry for the delay, but we just go power back on from the storm.


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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2093 Postby bubba hotep » Mon Jan 11, 2021 10:54 pm

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Winter time post are almost exclusively focused on the DFW area.

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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2094 Postby Quixotic » Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:05 pm



And then...depression set in
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2095 Postby gpsnowman » Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:40 pm


It's almost comical but it hurts too much to laugh.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2096 Postby Brent » Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:50 pm

There's always the icon :spam:
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2097 Postby Captmorg70 » Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:00 am



Honestly as much as I kinda discount the icon. I did pretty well on the track of last weekend.

^^^ and I have no real reason to discount the Icon haha
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2098 Postby Haris » Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:14 am

Captmorg70 wrote:


Honestly as much as I kinda discount the icon. I did pretty well on the track of last weekend.

^^^ and I have no real reason to discount the Icon haha



It was the first one to show the central texas trend for this storm and the west trend for the New Years system. It does pretty good. It may not be right at the specifics but it seems decent at the upper level performance
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2099 Postby Cerlin » Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:32 am

Don’t discount the ICON. I very much tossed it aside last week because I didn’t like what it showed but it was the only model to not show accumulation for my house, which is what happened.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#2100 Postby cheezyWXguy » Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:53 am

Captmorg70 wrote:


Honestly as much as I kinda discount the icon. I did pretty well on the track of last weekend.

^^^ and I have no real reason to discount the Icon haha

I do have to give it credit. I’m not usually very impressed by its performance, and I definitely discounted it, but it was one of the first to lock onto the southern track consistently.
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