Texas winter wx thread (2009-2010)

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[Portastorm]

I'll ship some of this down to you Portastorm.

And to think how bummed some of you were the other night, thinking the storm would be a bust! Remember?!

Like I said, I'm happy for y'all. Get out there and enjoy it. What an amazing snow event for North Texas. You'll be talking about this for years, I bet.

[gboudx]

I'll ship some of this down to you Portastorm.

And to think how bummed some of you were the other night, thinking the storm would be a bust! Remember?!

Like I said, I'm happy for y'all. Get out there and enjoy it. What an amazing snow event for North Texas. You'll be talking about this for years, I bet.

Later today, I may have one of the boys hold a football for me while I kick it. But my son may not like being called Lucy.

[cycloneye]

Time out,off topic=Mother nature has done its thing again,this time a giant eruption of the Soufriere Volcano in the Eastern Caribbean.You can get details at Geology forum.

Resume the discussions about winter in Texas.

[southerngale]

Tell you what, folks, what I'm seeing on the long-range models (ECMWF and GFS) indicates that we're nowhere near the end of winter in Texas. I see one storm after another with colder and colder air coming down. Our (Houston) snow chances may be increasing the next few weeks. It just takes the right timing of a passing disturbance with cold air overhead. I don't see any events in the latest model runs, just very cold air. 10-day Euro has cross-Polar flow that dips all the way down to the Gulf! So don't put away those winter coats just yet.

Note: It pained me to say that...

Music to my ears... if the snow chances do indeed increase. I'm growing quite weary of the cold rain. It's depressing to get cold rain event after cold rain event when there's snow not too far away.



Great pics/videos guys. Keep 'em coming. We'll have to live vicariously through your snow as it's been raining all day here. Enjoy it! I sure feel for the kids who had to go to school, though.

[katheria]

Tell you what, folks, what I'm seeing on the long-range models (ECMWF and GFS) indicates that we're nowhere near the end of winter in Texas. I see one storm after another with colder and colder air coming down. Our (Houston) snow chances may be increasing the next few weeks. It just takes the right timing of a passing disturbance with cold air overhead. I don't see any events in the latest model runs, just very cold air. 10-day Euro has cross-Polar flow that dips all the way down to the Gulf! So don't put away those winter coats just yet.

Note: It pained me to say that...

Music to my ears... if the snow chances do indeed increase. I'm growing quite weary of the cold rain. It's depressing to get cold rain event after cold rain event when there's snow not too far away.


Great pics/videos guys. Keep 'em coming. We'll have to live vicariously through your snow. Enjoy it! I sure feel for the kids who had to go to school, though.

more comming
ran camera battery down charging as we speak, then drive to part to take pics of creek


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This is my favorite so far....

[WacoWx]

HOLY JEEZ! ^^^

[iorange55]

We have 6 inches on the grassy areas. Well depending on where I measure. between 5 and 6. There is about 7 inches on a car.

[brewskymc]

We've had about 5 inches or so and it is still snowing good here on the SMU campus. The streets are now covered with thick slush and snow and have gone from wet to white. The campus is closing at 3pm and delaying opening until noon tomorrow. My kids are going to be jealous... Their schools are still on normal schedule. Ha, ha, ha!!!

The students here are having a blast building snowmen and having snowball fights.

[txagwxman]

Dude ... I didn't even ask! Do you have to rub it in?! Gawd, it's bad enough knowing winter wonderland is just 3 hours to my north.

Sucks for me too...I am watching rain 38-39F here.

[Tejas89]

KRLD throwing out 10" "or more" for DFW area-wide. Should see increased intensity between now and 6, with light/flurries after that and throughout the night.

It's an historic day.

[JGrin87]

I have faith for a light dusting in the Austin area. The radar returns out west are picking up and hopefully we can get some evaporative cooling and some good luck to see a few flakes out of this sytem...

thoughts??

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[Ntxw]

KRLD throwing out 10" "or more" for DFW area-wide. Should see increased intensity between now and 6, with light/flurries after that and throughout the night.

It's an historic day.

Snow is becoming flufflier snow, sticking more.

[cwp419]

Latest NAM sounding shows snow at Hook at 6am tomorrow morning.

[wxag07]

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
214 PM CST THU FEB 11 2010

...2009-2010 WINTER AMONG SNOWIEST ON RECORD...

AT 2 PM...DFW AIRPORT HAD RECORDED 5.7 INCHES OF SNOW TODAY. THIS
BREAKS THE PREVIOUS DAILY RECORD FOR FEBRUARY 11 OF 1.4 INCHES SET
IN 1988.

THE 24-HOUR SNOWFALL RECORD FOR FEBRUARY IS 7.5 INCHES...SET ON
FEBRUARY 17, 1978 AND FEBRUARY 25, 1924. TODAY IS THE HEAVIEST
SNOWFALL AT DFW AIRPORT SINCE FEBRUARY 17, 1978.

THIS BRINGS THE SEASONAL SNOWFALL TOTAL TO 8.9 INCHES...PLACING THE
2009-2010 SEASON AS THE 7TH SNOWIEST ON RECORD FOR DALLAS/FORT
WORTH. THIS IS THE SNOWIEST WINTER IN 32 SEASONS (SINCE 1977-1978).

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DALLAS/FORT WORTH - SNOWIEST SEASONS

1 17.6 1977-78
2 15.3 1963-64
3 13.5 1923-24
4 10.4 1976-77
5 9.5 1909-10
6 9.2 1916-17
7 8.9 2009-10*
8 8.8 1947-48
9 8.1 1937-38
10 7.3 1965-66
7.3 1941-42

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DALLAS/FORT WORTH - MOST SNOW IN FEBRUARY

1 13.5 1978
2 7.5 1924
3 5.7 2009*

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OTHER ALL-TIME RECORDS FOR DALLAS/FORT WORTH

24-HOUR SNOWFALL RECORD
12.1 INCHES (JANUARY 15-16, 1964)

HIGHEST SNOWFALL AMOUNT FOR ONE CALENDAR DAY
7.8 INCHES (JANUARY 15, 1964 AND JANUARY 14, 1917)

$$

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[iorange55]

Pete Delkus says an ADDITIONAL 2-5 inches. On top of 6 inches here so that'd be 10 inches, maybe.

[orangeblood]

The comments that keep are coming out of the Fort Worth NWS office are mind bottling. First, its 1-2 inches, then 2-3, then 4-6, so on and so on, you catch my drift. To top it all off, they make a statement that the last moderate snow band was moving through around 1pm. When clearly, according to the models and radar returns, that another significant snow band will move through around 3 or 4pm. Who is running the show over there, jeez!!

[Portastorm]

I have faith for a light dusting in the Austin area. The radar returns out west are picking up and hopefully we can get some evaporative cooling and some good luck to see a few flakes out of this sytem...

thoughts??

Sure, I have a thought: if you want winter weather, get the heck out of Austin because you sure won't get any here! There ... that's my thought. Now I'll go back down into my bitter hole and look at my North Texas snow pics.