TX Winter WX Thread #7 - An Icy and Rough Weekend Ahead

Shoshana · #441 Postby **Shoshana** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:11 pm

'k. Guess i got confused! We had a Austin CA report here earlier

cheezyWXguy · #442 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:21 pm

we just had some light freezing rain and a glaze of ice is beginning to form on nearly everything, even the ground! tonite is gonna be a good one at this rate...and remaining water is freezinfg over right now, as the temp is around 30

Shoshana · #443 Postby **Shoshana** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:23 pm

KXAN TV is reporting icing in the Hill Country... Lake Buchanan and NW of there.

aggiecutter · #444 Postby **aggiecutter** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:26 pm

All the mets on the local weather stations are predicting a wintry mix for the Ark-La-Tex region Friday night into Saturday morning. This was channels 3,6, and 12 out of Shreveport-Texarkana.

Tamora · #445 Postby **Tamora** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:28 pm

aggiecutter wrote:All the mets on the local weather stations are predicting a wintry mix for the Ark-La-Tex region Friday night into Saturday morning. This was channels 3,6, and 12 out of Shreveport-Texarkana.

upcoming Friday-Sat? DFW is predicting rain but highs in the low 40's but lows in the low 30's.... Is this DeJaVu?

#446 Postby **Portastorm** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:33 pm

Shoshana wrote:KXAN TV is reporting icing in the Hill Country... Lake Buchanan and NW of there.

I would believe it. Plenty of precip out there right now and temps in Llano and Cherokee are both at 30 degrees.

#447 Postby **Portastorm** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:38 pm

aggiecutter wrote:All the mets on the local weather stations are predicting a wintry mix for the Ark-La-Tex region Friday night into Saturday morning. This was channels 3,6, and 12 out of Shreveport-Texarkana.

I just took a look at the 0z GFS and I see 60s and no precip at all for the weekend. Looks like it'll be a great weekend for fishing or golf in the Texarkana area. :wink:

#448 Postby **Tireman4** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:40 pm

The temperature is slowly making its way down. 51 in Humble. The front finally came back through.

ROCK · #449 Postby **ROCK** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:43 pm

Tireman4 wrote:The temperature is slowly making its way down. 51 in Humble. The front finally came back through.

it moving through the southern portions now....best I can tell its through Pasadena, Pearland.....

now moving through Friendswood, Deer Park

http://www.wunderground.com/stationmaps ... &wmo=99999

Furious George · #450 Postby **Furious George** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:47 pm

35.6 degrees in Brenham, TX right now? That's getting pretty chilly for a location not too far from Houston.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/fin ... .22,-96.37

Yankeegirl · #451 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:48 pm

Just got a nice downpour and the temps are dropping... it has dropped about 5 degrees in the past 15 minutes or so.... ? I am at 44.5...

aggiecutter · #452 Postby **aggiecutter** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:49 pm

I just looked at the 0z GFS, also. There was no winter precip to be found next weekend in this region, so that probably means we'll have a snow storm.

Johnny · #453 Postby **Johnny** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:52 pm

Man, the temperature really started dropping in the last hour. I'm sitting at 40 degrees and dropping here just west of Conroe.

#454 Postby **TrekkerCC** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:52 pm

cheezyWXguy wrote:we just had some light freezing rain and a glaze of ice is beginning to form on nearly everything, even the ground! tonite is gonna be a good one at this rate...and remaining water is freezinfg over right now, as the temp is around 30

I can confirm that the temperature is now below freezing. The weather gauge shows 30F with a dew point of 27F. Ice is now accumulating on grass/plants, and a little on the pavement. I am more concerned now with the ongoing precipitation events, it could be a mess tomorrow on the roads. Apparently, the second arctic surge is starting to come in.

Extremeweatherguy · #455 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:02 am

Temps are in the lower 40s here in Spring already. Makes me wonder if we may already be as low as the mid 30s by daybreak?!

btw: just checked and we were not expected to be this cold until sometime overnight.

#456 Postby **TrekkerCC** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:04 am

Something interesting came up for my area on the NWS Ft. Worth Website:

NWS Ft. Worth Office wrote:
M.L.King Day: A chance of snow and sleet before noon, then a slight chance for sleet. Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly sunny, with a high near 31. North northwest wind between 15 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

I didn't think that the air was deep enough at the upper levels to support snow. I saw sleet to our west, however, I thought this sleet/mix would change over to freezing rain as it approaches the DFW metroplex.

Shoshana · #457 Postby **Shoshana** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:09 am

TxDot is reporting ice on bridges and overpasses in FW, Denton and parts of Dallas. Also, there seems to be ice in Ellis County, south of Dallas.

http://www.dot.state.tx.us/travel/road_conditions.htm

cheezyWXguy · #458 Postby **cheezyWXguy** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:09 am

major batch of freezing rain/sleet moving in from near ft worth now...should be in the plano/frisco area in the next half area...thats where we may see our first decent accumulations

Extremeweatherguy · #459 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:15 am

I don't know why (since there is no ice here right now...and no serious wind either) but my power is flashing right now. I don't like the look of this.

Don't be surprised if I disappear from Storm2k for awhile.

#460 Postby **srainhoutx** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:24 am

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1116 PM CST SUN JAN 14 2007

TXZ091>094-100>104-115>120-129>133-141>144-156-157-151200-
/O.CON.KFWD.IS.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070115T1200Z/
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-ROCKWALL-EASTLAND-ERATH-
HOOD-SOMERVELL-JOHNSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-LAMPASAS-
CORYELL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BOWIE...NOCONA...GAINESVILLE...
SHERMAN...DENISON...BONHAM...GRAHAM...OLNEY...JACKSBORO...
DECATUR...BRIDGEPORT...DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND...
THE COLONY...PLANO...BRECKENRIDGE...MINERAL WELLS...WEATHERFORD...
BRIAR...FORT WORTH...ARLINGTON...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...CISCO...
EASTLAND...RANGER...GORMAN...STEPHENVILLE...DUBLIN...GRANBURY...
OAK TRAIL SHORES...GLEN ROSE...CLEBURNE...BURLESON...COMANCHE...
DE LEON...GOLDTHWAITE...HAMILTON...HICO...CLIFTON...MERIDIAN...
VALLEY MILLS...LAMPASAS...COPPERAS COVE...GATESVILLE
1116 PM CST SUN JAN 14 2007

...ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST MONDAY...

AN ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST MONDAY.

A SECONDARY SURGE OF COLD AIR WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS BEFORE
DAYBREAK AND CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO FALL BELOW FREEZING. PERIODS
OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN...LIGHT SLEET AND LIGHT DRIZZLE WILL RESULT
IN ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE...ESPECIALLY ON ELEVATED SURFACES SUCH AS
BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. DRIVING CONDITIONS WILL BE DANGEROUS FOR
THE MORNING COMMUTE. WINDS SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE LATE
TONIGHT WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEXT SURGE OF COLD AIR. NORTH
WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS IN COMBINATION
WITH ICE ACCUMULATIONS ON TREES AND POWER LINES MAY CAUSE THEM TO
BREAK AND FALL. PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE POWER OUTAGES. STAY AWAY FROM
DOWNED POWER LINES AS THEY MAY STILL BE LIVE.

IF TRAVEL IS NECESSARY...EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION AND KEEP AN
EXTRA BLANKET...FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN
CASE YOU BECOME STRANDED.

TX Winter WX Thread #7 - An Icy and Rough Weekend Ahead

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