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Snowing in Brownville TX

#1 Postby boca » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:43 am

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapCli ... &map.y=239

Can someone down there verify if that's a true observation.
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#2 Postby cctxhurricanewatcher » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:48 am

I'd think it's correct since that is the NWS office reporting it. Not a coop or automated station.
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Re: Snowing in Brownville TX

#3 Postby TrekkerCC » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:19 pm

boca wrote:http://www.srh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=bro&map.x=312&map.y=239

Can someone down there verify if that's a true observation.


I cannot tell if it is a true verified observation, but I am doubting that it is. The upper air sounding shows a warm nose above about 1500-2000ft, and this would melt all the snow as it was falling.

http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/skew_KBRO.html <--- current Skew T chart.

(edited: to change the wording)
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#4 Postby brunota2003 » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:03 pm

the air temp dropped from 72 to 52 in one hour? wow I for one find that hard to believe...but if a front moved through it would be possible...
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#5 Postby southerngale » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:28 pm

A post by AFM in the Texas thread:

Air Force Met wrote:
cctxhurricanewatcher wrote:Snow in Brownsville!


http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KBRO.html


OB Error. It's 10C at 850mb and the freezing level was at over 12,000' as of the 12Z sounding.

Not the kind of sounding you look for to get snow out of :-)
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#6 Postby Shoshana » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:37 pm

brunota2003 wrote:the air temp dropped from 72 to 52 in one hour? wow I for one find that hard to believe...but if a front moved through it would be possible...


This is Texas, nothing between us and the North Pole but Barbed Wire.

Actually, I've seen it drop further and a whole lot faster. A Blue Norther can do that.
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#7 Postby vbhoutex » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:49 pm

brunota2003 wrote:the air temp dropped from 72 to 52 in one hour? wow I for one find that hard to believe...but if a front moved through it would be possible...


Not hard to believe at all in TX. I've already seen it happen this year. Blue Northers will do it every time! Can't count the number of times I've seen it happen over the 35 years I have lived in Houston.
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#8 Postby richtrav » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:11 pm

Shoshana wrote:
This is Texas, nothing between us and the North Pole but Barbed Wire.



Well, that and 7000 kilometers
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#9 Postby Shoshana » Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:51 am

LOL. Yup. But that's what they say here when a Blue Norther rips in and drops the temps by 40+ degrees in 15 minutes.
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#10 Postby southerngale » Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:00 am

vbhoutex wrote:
brunota2003 wrote:the air temp dropped from 72 to 52 in one hour? wow I for one find that hard to believe...but if a front moved through it would be possible...


Not hard to believe at all in TX. I've already seen it happen this year. Blue Northers will do it every time! Can't count the number of times I've seen it happen over the 35 years I have lived in Houston.


When the front came through here Monday night (officially Tuesday night because it was about 12:30am), the temperature went from 70° to 47° in about an hour - a 23° drop.
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#11 Postby wall_cloud » Wed Jan 17, 2007 8:05 am

cctxhurricanewatcher wrote:I'd think it's correct since that is the NWS office reporting it. Not a coop or automated station.


Not sure if its an automated station or not. Regardless, it isn't an NWS ob. Manual obs at the airports are taken by FAA contractors. The NWS has no control over what is reported. Sometimes I wonder what they are looking at.
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