Texas Spring 2025

[Brent]

Over 130 wildfires statewide a town 25 miles west of here nearly burned to the ground

Let's never do that again

[gpsnowman]

Dust slowly clearing west to east. Turning out to be a comfortable March day.

[HockeyTx82]

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0046.html

PDS, hope everyone stays safe and weather aware.

[snownado]

So on top of the tornado outbreak happening, there was just a 3.0 magnitude Earthquake in Magee, MS...

[JDawg512]

This is the kind of day where you seriously wonder how long this part of the country will be inhabitable.

While there are extreme conditions in some areas with this storm system... this take is also extreme.

I wouldn't say it's extreme when we are indeed seeing areas literally becoming uninhabitable across the world where populations of people having to migrate. It is not a stretch by any means that areas of the U.S. will also become extremely difficult to live.

[JDawg512]

Dust has arrived in Austin. Sky is an ugly yellowish brown. Disgusting

[JDawg512]

Wildfire near Fredericksburg.

[txtwister78]

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0046.html

PDS, hope everyone stays safe and weather aware.

Still long way to go but outside of a few tornadoes (one significant with damage in Taylorsville MS) this has been kept in check thankfully so far today. One thing about the SE region is you can have insane parameters show up on models, but being so close to the gulf you can often get low cloud ceilings in the morning with drizzle that refuses to lift/clear and that can disrupt the atmosphere just enough and keep a lid on things that models sometimes don't see a day or two out. Real-time observations leading to bust in forecast which isn't new for this area due to climate.

The other factor is the storm modes themselves are becoming more linear with time so with that, you lose the threat for high end tornadoes but can still get the QLCS spin up's embedded within lines of storms.

Hopefully these messy storm modes continue but threat by no means is over especially for any storm that can isolate itself away from others.

Down across my area, I've about had it with these windy/dry days. Desperately need this pattern to change soon. Summer forecast already looks rough.

[snownado]

Daytime highs never got out of 60s, but the record will reflect a 12:49am high of 70*F for the day at DFW...

[mmmmsnouts]

This is the kind of day where you seriously wonder how long this part of the country will be inhabitable.

While there are extreme conditions in some areas with this storm system... this take is also extreme.

I wouldn't say it's extreme when we are indeed seeing areas literally becoming uninhabitable across the world where populations of people having to migrate. It is not a stretch by any means that areas of the U.S. will also become extremely difficult to live.

Fires are bad… but I’m more concerned about the boundary between arid and moist climates continuing to move east, and water shortages forming along the I-35 corridor eventually. Like a generation from now. Not to mention the increasingly hot days and flash droughts we’ve seen the last few years.

P.S. “Habitable” and “inhabitable” mean the same thing. If you can’t live someplace, it’s uninhabitable.

[snownado]

Over 130 wildfires statewide a town 25 miles west of here nearly burned to the ground

Let's never do that again

Per the NY Times, the fires are responsible for at least 1 death, almost 300 structures were damaged and close to 200,000 acres burned.

Definitely a once-in-a-lifetime event in terms of scale and how all of the ingredients combined.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/w ... ahoma.html

[Brent]

Well luckily the tornado outbreak doesn't seem to have been as bad as some people feared but dang it got chilly here

At least the fires and smoke went away for now

[snownado]

Well luckily the tornado outbreak doesn't seem to have been as bad as some people feared but dang it got chilly here

At least the fires and smoke went away for now

For the high risk area in the SE, true.

The outbreak (both wind & tornadoes) worse than expected for the Midwest though.

[Brent]

Well luckily the tornado outbreak doesn't seem to have been as bad as some people feared but dang it got chilly here

At least the fires and smoke went away for now

For the high risk area in the SE, true.

The outbreak (both wind & tornadoes) worse than expected for the Midwest though.

Yeah that's what I was referring to

And no doubt the fires are going in our history books. Someone died apparently

[Yukon Cornelius]

Made it down to 29 last night/this morning. Wasn’t expecting that.

[Brent]

Made it down to 29 last night/this morning. Wasn’t expecting that.

Yeah Wednesday is apparently a big front too

Unfortunately more fire danger and wind also

Wow Tulsa had a freeze

[ElectricStorm]

Another fire day tomorrow
I don't wanna do this again even if it's not supposed to be as bad as Friday

[txtwister78]

Fortunately firefighters overnight made some real progress with the ongoing fire near Fredericksburg. 0 to 40% contained. Hopefully that continues before winds begin to pickup again tomorrow. Some smoke has impacted both the Austin & SA metros as winds shift back and forth from the W during the day to N at night.

Unfortunately Texas is no stranger to wildfires and dry conditions especially coming out if winter and of course into the summer. The droughts across SC TX can be brutal but patterns of course do and will change eventually and often we break out of these with a flooding event. No question the drought we've been under though for months is significant and vegetation is extremely dry prone to high fire danger. There are some signs that the last few days of March into April could introduce the prospect of at least some rain chances but not confident yet. Fingers crossed.

[snownado]

It took all day, but DFW did finally achieve a late intra-hour high of 70*F today.

[HockeyTx82]

15% severe chance for N NE Tx for Sunday showing up.

Spring sure is fun