Texas Winter 2015-2016

[Shoshana]

A friend of mine who's in Plano right now just reported on Facebook 12 minutes ago sleet and freezing rain..WITH pictures.

My mom is just south of Plano and she was trying to tell me it was pea size hail and I kept telling her it was pea size sleet....

[dhweather]

I think wxman57 secretly is in the winter closet. He finally exposed himself to the outside world. In this day and age there is no shame in this at all. We are all accepting and the current societal structure allows for no exclusion of anyone, no matter how repulsive the rest of us might think certain lifestyles are. Wxman57, thank you for your courage.

Another post of the year candidate!

[dhweather]

We had a lot of marble sized hail in Heath this morning, one small cell popped up over southern Rockwall county, and had a clearly visible hail core on radar, confirmed on the ground. Freaky.

[DougNTexas]

My Son lives in North Longview in the Spring Hill area and it is snowing at his house, and my Brother in East Mountain is getting nickle size snow flakes in East Mountain in Southern Upshur County.

[Ralph's Weather]

My Son lives in North Longview in the Spring Hill area and it is snowing at his house, and my Brother in East Mountain is getting nickle size snow flakes in East Mountain in Southern Upshur County.

So close, dang. Figured that would happen.

[orangeblood]

Next weeks system is beginning to look much more interesting, showing signs of cutting off!!

[Brent]

Oh the GFS is teasing the mid week period big time...

[Turtle]

I went outside and my entire yard is covered in snow, but none was on the pavement.

[Ntxw]

Next weeks system is beginning to look much more interesting, showing signs of cutting off!!

Looks like bowling ball set up somewhat in essence of late December. Always nice to see big storm dig out of the southern Rockies. It will warm up ahead of it though big time as usual with trofs to our west before they pass through. Rich moisture return.

Nice pictures Turtle, making Porta Jealous

Edit: I noticed you guys may be talking about mid week. I'm talking about late week oops

[Brent]

Next weeks system is beginning to look much more interesting, showing signs of cutting off!!

Looks like bowling ball set up somewhat in essence of late December. Always nice to see big storm dig out of the southern Rockies. It will warm up ahead of it though big time as usual with trofs to our west before they pass through. Rich moisture return.

Nice pictures Turtle, making Porta Jealous

Edit: I noticed you guys may be talking about mid week. I'm talking about late week oops

Please be a sign of February...

so what happened to this big blowtorch to end January?

[Ntxw]

As that storm comes into the SW, heat is being pumped up. GFS has been showing 70s to end January, Euro close by. However as the time frame comes closer, the reason it looks so warm is because of an incoming big system vs zonal torch. I can handle that.

[Brent]

:uarrow: As that storm comes into the SW, heat is being pumped up. GFS has been showing 70s to end January, Euro close by. However as the time frame comes closer, the reason it looks so warm is because of an incoming big system vs zonal torch. I can handle that.

In other words it's a day or two of warmth... yeah I can deal with that too.

[TheProfessor]

I for one like the 12z GFS and hope it's perfectly right. It would make everyone from Texas to Ohio Happy. Unfortunately it's 2 weeks+ out and it's get GFS

[Yukon Cornelius]

Feb-Apr

[TheProfessor]

This may just be a coincidence but it seems that most North-Central Texas snowstorms end up hitting Ohio, it might be the fact that the storm goes Neg tilt before Mississippi which helps prevents transfers here.

[Ralph's Weather]

Can't complain about a warm day or two in winter. Hoping for run like late last winter at some point though at some point or one big one. Just hope we are clear during early Feb since I am planning to go up to NM and I don't want a 750 miles drive through snow, I'll have enough when I get there.

[Ntxw]

Can't complain about a warm day or two in winter. Hoping for run like late last winter at some point though at some point or one big one. Just hope we are clear during early Feb since I am planning to go up to NM and I don't want a 750 miles drive through snow, I'll have enough when I get there.

There is probably some correlation. Many systems in winter come out of Texas as the jet matures south. Cyclogenesis occurs often, there are some famous terms such as panhandle hookers. Panhandle storms tend to move up into the northern plains, NC Texas maybe into the Ohio Valley and Lakes, and Houston systems usually means way south into the gulf. Not a perfect correlation but Im sure there is a trend.

Maybe someone should write a paper and get these storm tracks named after them like the east coast lows (Miller, heather lows Etc)

[Tireman4]

Can't complain about a warm day or two in winter. Hoping for run like late last winter at some point though at some point or one big one. Just hope we are clear during early Feb since I am planning to go up to NM and I don't want a 750 miles drive through snow, I'll have enough when I get there.

There is probably some correlation. Many systems in winter come out of Texas as the jet matures south. Cyclogenesis occurs often, there are some famous terms such as panhandle hookers. Panhandle storms tend to move up into the northern plains, NC Texas maybe into the Ohio Valley and Lakes, and Houston systems usually means way south into the gulf. Not a perfect correlation but Im sure there is a trend.

Maybe someone should write a paper and get these storm tracks named after them like the east coast lows (Miller, heather lows Etc)

Or Ntwx you could write the paper...it is just begging for someone to compose it..

[Brent]

Oh look... and only 324 hours out!

[wxman57]

Finally! Some winter weather for TX. The 324hr GFS is always believable.