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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2641 Postby HockeyTx82 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:18 pm

Harp.1 wrote:It moves everything to the east quicker


That's it, I'll see you guys in the summer thread.......
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2642 Postby orangeblood » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:18 pm

Harp.1 wrote:It moves everything to the east quicker


It still is cutting off the Baja Low, that solution doesn’t have much support if any from its ensembles
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2643 Postby Harp.1 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:20 pm

orangeblood wrote:
Harp.1 wrote:It moves everything to the east quicker


It still is cutting off the Baja Low, that solution doesn’t have any support if any from its ensembles

Ok. Just an observation on my part. It’s the happy hour gfs after all! :)
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2644 Postby Stratton23 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:20 pm

yup, i can smell the “ its over “ comments coming soon lol, never fails, but seriously if i wont be surprised to see short range guidance come in colder and more aggressive south with wintery precipitation
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2645 Postby txtwister78 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:22 pm

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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2646 Postby hurricane2025 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:24 pm

Euro is winning right now
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2647 Postby Edwards Limestone » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:25 pm

Looks like another east TX/gulf coast/Louisiana event. I have zero expectations for anything here in New Braunfels. The drought has taken hold here even stronger these days.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2648 Postby Stratton23 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:28 pm

Ill be back when the short range models kick the global models butts with surface temperatures, global modes do not have the resolution to see this shallow cold air at the surface like models like the NAM/ HRRR have, if i was a betting man, id bet my next pay check global models are going to be at least 5-6 degrees too warm
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2649 Postby rwfromkansas » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:28 pm

GFS seems to be all over the place, so leaning Euro now. If it trends toward that, then ugh. We have had moments like this before where something looked like a sure thing and boom, it goes.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2650 Postby txtwister78 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:28 pm

Edwards Limestone wrote:Looks like another east TX/gulf coast/Louisiana event. I have zero expectations for anything here in New Braunfels. The drought has taken hold here even stronger these days.


This doesn't have anything to do with the drought brother. We're definitely getting "something" out of this. Just a question of how cold and in what form regarding ice potential.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2651 Postby ThunderSleetDreams » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:30 pm

txtwister78 wrote:
Edwards Limestone wrote:Looks like another east TX/gulf coast/Louisiana event. I have zero expectations for anything here in New Braunfels. The drought has taken hold here even stronger these days.


This doesn't have anything to do with the drought brother. We're definitely getting "something" out of this. Just a question of how cold and in what form regarding ice potential.



Yeah, you’re seeing precip this weekend in NB.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2652 Postby wxman22 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:32 pm

rwfromkansas wrote:GFS seems to be all over the place, so leaning Euro now. If it trends toward that, then ugh. We have had moments like this before where something looked like a sure thing and boom, it goes.

Am I missing something? The GFS still shows a major storm.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2653 Postby Ntxw » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:32 pm

rwfromkansas wrote:GFS seems to be all over the place, so leaning Euro now. If it trends toward that, then ugh. We have had moments like this before where something looked like a sure thing and boom, it goes.


You're in a good place for a high chance at winter precipitation. It's further south where temp profiles go back and forth each run. What's happening is the GFS this run is a little warmer, and a bit less qpf (from major to significant) it's still margin of error type stuff in 18z run. GFS has been doing different in terms of ULL feature out west but the slug of moisture still rides over the dome.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2654 Postby Stratton23 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:36 pm

Heck even on this GFS run, it keeps me at about 33 degrees when the precipitation is falling, we are talking a very very thin line here with some locations, just a couple degrees difference and its a whole new ball game
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2655 Postby bubba hotep » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:38 pm

orangeblood wrote:
Harp.1 wrote:It moves everything to the east quicker


It still is cutting off the Baja Low, that solution doesn’t have much support if any from its ensembles


18z ICON trended that way some, but you have to extrapolate out from 120h. The 18z 12K NAM looks more like the 12z Euro. Splitting hairs, but I don't see the cutoff and left behind scenario as being that concerning right now.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2656 Postby rwfromkansas » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:39 pm

wxman22 wrote:
rwfromkansas wrote:GFS seems to be all over the place, so leaning Euro now. If it trends toward that, then ugh. We have had moments like this before where something looked like a sure thing and boom, it goes.

Am I missing something? The GFS still shows a major storm.


I was looking at its QPF placement for snow, it has moved around a lot.

Yes, it still looks big.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2657 Postby Ntxw » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:43 pm

18z GEFS is even wetter than 12z, and snow means is further south. I'd be thinking about suppression up in Oklahoma.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2658 Postby wxman57 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:46 pm

wxman22 wrote:
rwfromkansas wrote:GFS seems to be all over the place, so leaning Euro now. If it trends toward that, then ugh. We have had moments like this before where something looked like a sure thing and boom, it goes.

Am I missing something? The GFS still shows a major storm.


18Z GFS keeps the snow north of D-FW now, but it has about .25-.5" of sleet and freezing rain up there. It has all rain for Houston. We'll see a lot of flip-flopping over the next 2-3 days. The cold air hasn't even started to move south yet.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2659 Postby txtwister78 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:47 pm

GEFS also slightly warmer and the difference is the orientation of the arctic high the GEFS has between the 12z and 18z run where we're on that western periphery of the arctic air and with this being a shallow airmass things can change very quickly at the surface with these subtle but significant changes further south.

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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#2660 Postby rwfromkansas » Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:47 pm

Even Evan Andrews is pretty bullish, says it's 95 percent certain to happen now.

Says he's leaning more snow up north and into DFW it sounds like than what models show.
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