Texas Spring 2016

[wxman57]

I think we need to revive the winter weather thread. It's too dang cold today! It's colder in Houston than in Calgary, Alberta.

[weatherdude1108]

I think we need to revive the winter weather thread. It's too dang cold today! It's colder in Houston than in Calgary, Alberta.

It is chilly! 60 degrees at 3:50 pm on May 2nd in Southern Texas is something I won't complain about, knowing what this time of year can bring temperature-wise.

Although near 50 for overnight low may make it a tad intolerable for an early morning run I wanted to do tomorrow. I guess I'll be wearing my long-sleeve shirt. Ah well.

[Brent]

I think we need to revive the winter weather thread. It's too dang cold today! It's colder in Houston than in Calgary, Alberta.

You do have somewhat of a point... it is colder today than a lot of days during the winter...

62 degrees in my backyard at 4pm in the afternoon... Besides... 62 in the winter is average... 62 on May 2nd is -15 degrees below normal.

[Lagreeneyes03]

Not liking this chill at all, have had to turn the heat on in my car....what the what?

[ravyrn]

Surprised there hasn't been more posts about the catastrophic flooding in Palestine. I went and helped a friend clean out a portion of her home Saturday, and she lives on a dang hill. Lots of businesses and homes flooded in Palestine. Heard a detailed story of the grandmother and four grandchildren that drowned. Was a very sad story. Some neighbors were around, but they were on roofs and unable to render aid. Lots of roads washed out throughout the city. Saw two sinkholes when I went to lunch today.

[ravyrn]

Got more rain in Maydelle early this morning than we did Friday night/Sat morning. Left to goto work this morning and the county road had washed out with a two foot deep gash crossing the road from flooding last night. Took me an extra 20 minutes to get to work in Palestine as I had to go halfway to Jacksonville to detour around the washed out road.

[Ntxw]

Surprised there hasn't been more posts about the catastrophic flooding in Palestine. I went and helped a friend clean out a portion of her home Saturday, and she lives on a dang hill. Lots of businesses and homes flooded in Palestine. Heard a detailed story of the grandmother and four grandchildren that drowned. Was a very sad story. Some neighbors were around, but they were on roofs and unable to render aid. Lots of roads washed out throughout the city. Saw two sinkholes when I went to lunch today.

It was very devastating for sure. Lots of tragic stories out of that night. Not a lot of media coverage because none of the major metropolitan areas got significant rain enough to flood for national media or even state media to cover. But they got hit as hard as anybody.

[ravyrn]

Seems the two areas hardest hit in Palestine by the flash flooding was due to poor drainage. In Oldtown Palestine where they had over a foot over water flood into the restaurants and bars in the area, two vehicles got swept into a drainage tunnel going underneath the Kroger's parking lot. They clogged up the tunnel and prevented the flood waters from draining efficiently. In the neighborhood where the grandmother and four grandchildren drowned, the homes had water up to the ceilings and now the homes are filled with snakes after the flood waters receded and boarded up. On that end of town, apparently there's a railroad track that creates some sort of a dam, and a drainage area that went under it had a lot of debris build up in it from previous heavy rains over the past few months.

I saw video of the cars stuck in the drain tunnel at work, but not sure on the accuracy of the railroad track drainage issue as its just hearsay. But one of the sources I heard it from has her grandma living in the neighborhood that had water to the roof, and the other individual's husband is employed by the railroad.

[ravyrn]

Surprised there hasn't been more posts about the catastrophic flooding in Palestine. I went and helped a friend clean out a portion of her home Saturday, and she lives on a dang hill. Lots of businesses and homes flooded in Palestine. Heard a detailed story of the grandmother and four grandchildren that drowned. Was a very sad story. Some neighbors were around, but they were on roofs and unable to render aid. Lots of roads washed out throughout the city. Saw two sinkholes when I went to lunch today.

It was very devastating for sure. Lots of tragic stories out of that night. Not a lot of media coverage because none of the major metropolitan areas got significant rain enough to flood for national media or even state media to cover. But they got hit as hard as anybody.

There was a fair bit of media in town. I saw some vans on Saturday when I drove through a portion of town. There were still some in town today at lunch, and one of my supervisors got all giggly because they were driving along a TWC van.

[Ntxw]

48 at DFW this morning. Oh how I miss winter already. I hope these temps come back early this year in September . Wouldn't mind a September 1983 redux, December wasn't the only freak chill that year...

0.8C this week from ENSO. Means El Nino is now weak and almost done.

[Texas Snowman]

Actually bottomed out at 42 degrees this morning for thee official low at North Texas Regional Airport in Denison.

Perfect morning for a bike ride!

[wxman57]

Actually bottomed out at 42 degrees this morning for thee official low at North Texas Regional Airport in Denison.

Perfect morning for a bike ride!

Too cold for a bike ride after work. Might be warm enough to wash my car, though. Looks like drier weather ahead for the next couple of weeks. I'm sure no one will complain about that...

[Portastorm]

Howdy y'all! Been a while since I've posted. Outside of some storm damage, I've been enjoying this wonderfully wet and cool spring weather in Austin. Between having a son graduating this year from high school and helping run a local weather Twitter feed in which we partner with the NWS, I've not had much time to be around. You're better off for it!

Hoping this summer isn't too brutal and I'm encouraged by what the CFSv2 is showing and, more importantly, what Ntxw is predicting! Maybe we can keep wxman57 at bay.

[Ralph's Weather]

Latest info from NWS SHV on Friday's storms is 8 tornados in E TX. 3 EF-2s and 5 EF-1s. The EF-2s were the one which hit the Hibbett Sports in Lindale, a 27 mile long almost 2 mile wide multi vortex tornado which resulted in much damage on the eastern side of Lindale and moved NE into Upshur Co. And the last was near Alto. The EF-1s occurred late Friday night mostly in rural far E TX.

[vbhoutex]

Actually bottomed out at 42 degrees this morning for thee official low at North Texas Regional Airport in Denison.

Perfect morning for a bike ride!

Too cold for a bike ride after work. Might be warm enough to wash my car, though. Looks like drier weather ahead for the next couple of weeks. I'm sure no one will complain about that...

Bottomed out at 55.2f at the vbhoutex abode this am. This is May right? Haven't read a lot or looked at the long range models lately concerning our upcoming Summer(?). May is definitely starting off cooler than normal for us, at least in the mornings. Harbinger of things to come? I just hope we don't follow up April with another May like we had last year on the precipitation side!

[Annie Oakley]

Howdy y'all! Been a while since I've posted. Outside of some storm damage, I've been enjoying this wonderfully wet and cool spring weather in Austin. Between having a son graduating this year from high school and helping run a local weather Twitter feed in which we partner with the NWS, I've not had much time to be around. You're better off for it!

Hoping this summer isn't too brutal and I'm encouraged by what the CFSv2 is showing and, more importantly, what Ntxw is predicting! Maybe we can keep wxman57 at bay.

Thought of you when I heard this song Porta....good to hear from you.

https://youtu.be/Iu0-LTGHN34

[Brent]

Pete Delkus went with near normal temperatures for summer for most of us just now... above normal temps start around Houston and spread into the SE east of Texas.

[Ntxw]

First taste of Summer next Tuesday. Widespread 90s. After Sunday-Monday thunderstorms.

[Ralph's Weather]

Hoping that tornadoes stay NE of us in the Lindale area on Monday. 4 in 6 months is too many and the Van ones were close also last spring.

[TeamPlayersBlue]