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Re: TX winter wx thread: Winter Precipitation Thurs/Fri?

#1481 Postby PlanoNative » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:10 pm

echos around Wichita falls moving SE as well.
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#1482 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:21 pm

Yeah, these new echoes are definitely interesting. A few flurry reports later this evening would not surprise me at all from these cells as they head southeastward and the surface temperatures cool after sunset. Probably nothing significant will come from this, but I certainly wouldn't rule out a few flakes in a couple of places. We shall see..
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Winter Precipitation Thurs/Fri?

#1483 Postby somethingfunny » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:41 pm

What part of Grayson County are you in Snowman? I'm at the Sherman City Library right now checking out the storm totals.....I've never seen 7 inches of snow disappear so quickly!

These two systems were almost identical here in Grayson County, only Round 2 hit during the day. My office shut down at 2pm and sent everybody home......I'd have rather waited until the snow stopped around 6; Hwy 75 was like molasses. :cold: I had to get out and push a couple of cars stalled out in front of me :lol:

I work at the Cracker Barrell...I was the only server who showed up as scheduled at 5 and we were the only restaurant open from what I hear....after the snow ended we got swamped!

Is that long-range GFS for more snow on St Paddys still holding steady? I need more tip days like last night! :ggreen:
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Winter Precipitation Thurs/Fri?

#1484 Postby PlanoNative » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:11 pm

lgt rain reported at DFW. just not cold enough.

:cry:

These poor kids in Arlington, having to go to school with narry a flake of snow yesterday. It snowed west, north and east of here and obviously a bunch.
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Winter Precipitation Thurs/Fri?

#1485 Postby Portastorm » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:06 pm

Don't get too excited gang ... its mostly virga, although a few drops of rain did fall in the last 15 minutes at my house here in north Austin.
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Winter Precipitation Thurs/Fri?

#1486 Postby pwrdog » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:01 pm

Portastorm wrote:Don't get too excited gang ... its mostly virga, although a few drops of rain did fall in the last 15 minutes at my house here in north Austin.


Temp dropping pretty quickly at my farm... Temp down to 37 with dewpoint of 30....

Maybe that virga and light rain will do better when it get's into a slightly moister se texas..?

I few more flakes would be nice... That 10 minutes or so today wasn't enough...
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#1487 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:02 pm

It is amazing the temperature difference out ahead of this virga/light precipitation where we have been getting clear skies vs. what is happening under and behind it. Hooks airport in Tomball is currently at 40F, IAH is at 41F, Conroe is at 38F and I have 39.5F on my thermometer here in northern Harris county. Now compare those readings with College Station which is still up near 50F and Brenham which is at 45F. Pretty big difference.

One thing these colder surface temperatures may do is provide a better chance for some sleet or snow to reach the surface instead of just rain drops when this patch of virga/light precipitation reaches my area. The chances are still quite slim, but with slightly more moisture over here, it may be possible. I will let everyone know if it happens.
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#1488 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:11 pm

Well it looks like we may be out of luck once again. The last few radar returns are showing decreasing strength to the echoes as they move closer. :roll:
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#1489 Postby pwrdog » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:37 pm

Extremeweatherguy wrote:Well it looks like we may be out of luck once again. The last few radar returns are showing decreasing strength to the echoes as they move closer. :roll:
Your probably right.... Still a little to the northwest near Waco and it looks like it picking up over far NE Texas and diving due south.... Eastern Oklahoma has started reporting light snow again and NE texas just started reporting snow flurries again..

It will probably all die before it get's here though.. That is the trend.....
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#1490 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Fri Mar 07, 2008 10:59 pm

Well since it now looks like we have seen the end of the wintry threat, I guess I can finally post the video of the very little that I did see out of this event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKzMEfKKEo

This video shows the few flurries I managed to capture on tape sometime between 5:30am and 6am this morning. They didn't last very long and melted before reaching the ground, but in the end, a couple of melting flurries in north Houston is better than seeing nothing. So all in all, I would say that this was a pretty fun event for early March. It would have been 100 times better if we had seen the College station-type weather reach us down here, but oh well. I guess I will just have to wait until I am living in Oklahoma next winter for that.. :)
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Slow warming trend

#1491 Postby jasons2k » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:24 pm

Thanks for the video! I was hoping to see some here but I wasn't awake that early. All I had this morning was drizzle.
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#1492 Postby pwrdog » Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:10 am

Extremeweatherguy wrote:Well since it now looks like we have seen the end of the wintry threat, I guess I can finally post the video of the very little that I did see out of this event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKzMEfKKEo

This video shows the few flurries I managed to capture on tape sometime between 5:30am and 6am this morning. They didn't last very long and melted before reaching the ground, but in the end, a couple of melting flurries in north Houston is better than seeing nothing. So all in all, I would say that this was a pretty fun event for early March. It would have been 100 times better if we had seen the College station-type weather reach us down here, but oh well. I guess I will just have to wait until I am living in Oklahoma next winter for that.. :)
It's not over yet, there is a light rain snow mix right now at my farm near livingston..
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Slow warming trend

#1493 Postby jasons2k » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:04 am

35F for a low, luckily I did not experience a freeze this AM.
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Slow warming trend

#1494 Postby PlanoNative » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:50 am

26 this a.m. in north Irving. That'll teach those bradford pears!
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#1495 Postby Portastorm » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:57 am

Extremeweatherguy wrote:Well since it now looks like we have seen the end of the wintry threat, I guess I can finally post the video of the very little that I did see out of this event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKzMEfKKEo

This video shows the few flurries I managed to capture on tape sometime between 5:30am and 6am this morning. They didn't last very long and melted before reaching the ground, but in the end, a couple of melting flurries in north Houston is better than seeing nothing. So all in all, I would say that this was a pretty fun event for early March. It would have been 100 times better if we had seen the College station-type weather reach us down here, but oh well. I guess I will just have to wait until I am living in Oklahoma next winter for that.. :)


Oh c'mon EWG ... that wasn't snow flurries. Looked like south Texas gnats flying around a light to me. Are you sure you weren't hallucinating?! :lol:

Actually ... that's pretty cool and you get my Weather Weenie award for being up that early and watching for flurries. If nothing else, you will always know that your last winter in Houston you did see snow!
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#1496 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Sat Mar 08, 2008 10:58 am

I hit 32.4F for a low. Not too bad, but still pretty cold for March.

Other notable low temperatures around the state include 19F in Gainesville, Jacksboro and Graham, 23F in Fort Worth, 24F in Dallas, 27F in Temple, 30F in Conroe, 26F at Austin-Bergstrom, and 18F in Childress. They even managed to get down to a respectable 40F in Brownsville last night, which is pretty chilly for being the state's southern-most city.
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#1497 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:12 am

Portastorm wrote:
Extremeweatherguy wrote:Well since it now looks like we have seen the end of the wintry threat, I guess I can finally post the video of the very little that I did see out of this event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOKzMEfKKEo

This video shows the few flurries I managed to capture on tape sometime between 5:30am and 6am this morning. They didn't last very long and melted before reaching the ground, but in the end, a couple of melting flurries in north Houston is better than seeing nothing. So all in all, I would say that this was a pretty fun event for early March. It would have been 100 times better if we had seen the College station-type weather reach us down here, but oh well. I guess I will just have to wait until I am living in Oklahoma next winter for that.. :)


Oh c'mon EWG ... that wasn't snow flurries. Looked like south Texas gnats flying around a light to me. Are you sure you weren't hallucinating?! :lol:

Actually ... that's pretty cool and you get my Weather Weenie award for being up that early and watching for flurries. If nothing else, you will always know that your last winter in Houston you did see snow!
:lol: South Texas gnats would have probably given me about the same experience. Both would have been only for show and neither would have amounted to anything, so in many ways, small melting snowflakes are very similar to large annoying gnats. lol.

In the end though, it is just nice to know that I did see something while living here in Houston. A few flurries, a couple 5-minute sleet events, and one decent ice storm is not all that bad over the span of 3 years. Definitely much more than I would have seen had I still been living in Central Florida!
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Getting warmer late week.

#1498 Postby Texas Snowman » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:31 pm

Something Funny,

Sorry, haven't been on Storm2K for a few days - I live in the Denison area. Measured 4.75 (last Tuesday morning) and 5.25 inches of snow (last Thursday night) on my deck, but there was some compacting, so total snowfall was probably a little higher.

As for another storm, Joe Bastardi mentioned a big storm coming out of the Plains with winter from Oklahoma to NE this Friday and over the weekend.

What does everyone think - has Texas seen its last winter weather threat until next fall and winter?

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Re: TX winter wx thread: Spring-like pattern

#1499 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:51 pm

Both FWD and HGX discusions suggesting instability will be reduced by lack of mid-level dry air, and this will be more of a flooding threat.


The Dallas sounding isn't super-bad tornado wise, but with that combination of shear and CAPE, at least isolated tornadoes can't be ruled out.
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But with this much shear/helicity Tuesday morning around HOU, any discrete cell has an excellent chance of being tornadic, in my amateur opinion.

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12Z GFS shows light wintry precip in North Texas next weekend,but I'll hold off on that until the severe wx/flood threat has passed.
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Re: TX winter wx thread: Spring-like pattern

#1500 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:04 pm

Just in the last 4 or 5 days, the oak (I think) out front, that was a 6 foot tall maybe 3 inch wide sapling when we moved in 7 years ago, and is now over 30 feet tall, which each of the last 3 winters lost between half and about 85% of the leaves, with a few hanging on and staying green, not turning brown and dropping off like their brethren, has really started leafing out, and the orange tree has blossomed.


I am now almost certain, barring a major volcanic eruption or nuclear war, we are now about six months away from our next serious shot at winter weather here in Southeast Texas.
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