southern plains freezing rain/sleet thread

Extremeweatherguy · #81 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:30 pm

cheezywxman wrote:a "godd" one eh? lol...anyway...it shows my temps have dropped from 81 to 62.8 degrees in about 40 min

wow...an 18F drop in 40 minutes. That's insane.

cheezyWXguy · #82 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:33 pm

not done yet...its now at 59

#83 Postby **deltadog03** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:37 pm

yeah, here in flower mound...19.6 degrees in 50 min.

cheezyWXguy · #84 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:40 pm

i'm a little bit worried over here...I live one street away from an elmentary school thats having built a cafeteria...the problem is the have one of those huge crane things and i can see it rocking back and forth...if we get this kinda of wind and all that ice that crane may go down and we may lose power :eek:

Extremeweatherguy · #85 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:43 pm

Is it just me...or is this front moving faster than predicted? This thing seems to have a lot more punch than we all expected a few days ago.

cheezyWXguy · #86 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:48 pm

Extremeweatherguy wrote:Is it just me...or is this front moving faster than predicted? This thing seems to have a lot more punch than we all expected a few days ago.

thats what the afd's tell me...lol

#87 Postby **gboudx** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:50 pm

Extremeweatherguy wrote:Is it just me...or is this front moving faster than predicted? This thing seems to have a lot more punch than we all expected a few days ago.

In the morning AFD it was supposed to hit Dallas around 2z, which is 8pm. It came through my area around 6pm, so that makes it at least 2 hours ahead of schedule.

#88 Postby **Portastorm** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:10 pm

I'm wondering about us in Austin now. NWS Fort Worth at 6:30 pm says the front will near a Lampasas-Waco line by 9 pm. That'll put the front near Austin by 11 p.m., about 3-4 hours earlier than progged. :roll:

Extremeweatherguy · #89 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:18 pm

Portastorm wrote:I'm wondering about us in Austin now. NWS Fort Worth at 6:30 pm says the front will near a Lampasas-Waco line by 9 pm. That'll put the front near Austin by 11 p.m., about 3-4 hours earlier than progged.

Yeah and just a few days ago this front was just barely going to clear Houston and Austin and it was not going to be that cold. Wow...how things have changed. May be JB will be right when he said "encased in ice and snow". :eek:

#90 Postby **Portastorm** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:20 pm

Extremeweatherguy wrote:
Portastorm wrote:I'm wondering about us in Austin now. NWS Fort Worth at 6:30 pm says the front will near a Lampasas-Waco line by 9 pm. That'll put the front near Austin by 11 p.m., about 3-4 hours earlier than progged.
Yeah and just a few days ago this front was just barely going to clear Houston and Austin and it was not going to be that cold. Wow...how things have changed. May be JB will be right when he said "encased in ice and snow".

Extreme, you might be right ... you just might be right!

I kind of laughed JB off earlier this week but this front means business. I know we all will be eager to see the 0z model runs tonight.

Johnny · #91 Postby **Johnny** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:34 pm

Speaking of JB, what has he said today about this possible event?

Extremeweatherguy · #92 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:42 pm

Johnny wrote:Speaking of JB, what has he said today about this possible event?

He is saying that this will not be Texas' last shot of cold this winter...and he says that the I-20 corridor should expect a huge ice storm. He also says that this front coming down the plains reminds him of the superfront of 79'. He did not mention Houston in his post though...but he said he will post more about the southern plains ice/snow event tomorrow. He did mention though that many places in the plains are going to be seeing some of their worst late season cold EVER and that this cold will beat out the early December cold by A LOT (overall). Hopefully he will mention our area more in-depth tomorrow.

plainsman · #93 Postby **plainsman** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:53 pm

ya know looking at things more EWG, i think houston does have a shot at a some ice and sleet. a minor accumulation maybe? because yall just missed out on dec.7th, yall were a couple degrees too warm and the air will be colder with this time, i still wouldnt get your hopes up that much though, i do think there will definetly be some sleet mixed in with the rain in southeast texas.. i think definetly the hill country, probably sanantonio and austin and maybe houston... Dallas will get severe icing and sleet from this... some of the maps show central oklahoma with nothing but a few flurries.. the winter storm watch is from sherman to Dallas to waco to texarkana.... :wink:

Extremeweatherguy · #94 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:57 pm

plainsman wrote:ya know looking at things more EWG, i think houston does have a shot at a some ice and sleet. a minor accumulation maybe? because yall just missed out on dec.7th, yall were a couple degrees too warm and the air will be colder with this time, i still wouldnt get your hopes up that much though, i do think there will definetly be some sleet mixed in with the rain in southeast texas.. i think definetly the hill country, probably sanantonio and austin and maybe houston... Dallas will get severe icing and sleet from this... some of the maps show central oklahoma with nothing but a few flurries.. the winter storm watch is from sherman to Dallas to waco to texarkana....

yes...I was very mad with the December event. we had rain and rain and then cold rain and then that night we were heading toward 32F and then...the rain stops.

The next morning we hovered in the 20s and lower 30s and the high was only 37F, but all we had at that time was CLOUDS. It was quite depressing. I hope my luck is better this time...even a light glaze would be nice.

cheezyWXguy · #95 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:57 pm

ya...to think that i thot OKC was gonna get the best...theyre getting gyped out of this...lol..Its going to get very interesting and im probably gonna be up all nite 2morrow nite watching it all comedown if front of my bedroom window :cheesy:

plainsman · #96 Postby **plainsman** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:08 pm

cheesy notice how it says at least a quarter of an inch of ice ya know they didnt say what to. there could be 1-4 inches of ice and sleet. ill make an early prediction and put money on them upgrading the winter storm watch to a winter storm warning for North Texas. ice and sleet starts up fri evening fri night, sat, sat night sun sun night and mon morning, thats like 3 days of continuous ice and sleet and snow, man it could get really interesting... ya im going to be on this winter storm like a hawk tomorrow...

cheezyWXguy · #97 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:10 pm

GEEZ!!! do u really think 1-4 inches!?!? thats even more than the 2003 icestorm!!!

#98 Postby **GeneratorPower** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:18 pm

plainsman wrote:... there could be 1-4 inches of ice and sleet.

4 inches of ice could only happen in an ice age. But sleet seems to be a bit more "puffy" like snow so a *combined* 4 inches of ice and sleet wouldn't be out of the question, eh?

#99 Postby **GeneratorPower** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:20 pm

At 1/2 inch of ice, powerlines start to fall and tree branches start to snap. At 3/4 inch of ice, it's about twice as bad. 1" is very very serious. And more than 1" will bring down just about everything.

Extremeweatherguy · #100 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:20 pm

The NWS in Houston is now forecasting freezing rain for the northern 1/3rds of the area. This is progress!

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