2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#761 Postby serenata09 » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:04 am

Seriously!? Snowing in NE Austin? Not much of anything in NW Austin at this point.
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#762 Postby Shoshana » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:08 am

Yeah, I was surprised when I *tried* to take the dog out ... I went out, saw the snow turned around and realized she never left the house.... my friend in P'ville says sleet there (my sister in Lewisville says sleet too) but this is either snow or frozen mist.... it's just floating down. Is there such a thing as frozen mist? It's floating like snow tho..

Off to look again :)
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#763 Postby serenata09 » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:11 am

I say if it's white and it's floating it's snow! Have fun!
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#764 Postby Shoshana » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:27 am

It's changing over to something else. Still precip, but tiny somethings. Not sticking or anything but coming down heavier.

Maybe tiny frozen rain mixed with snow?

Would have been back earlier but now the pup wanted to go out .... and walked thru the mud .... eep.

Tried taking pics but I don't think it showed up.
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#765 Postby srainhoutx » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:29 am

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1129 PM CST TUE JAN 27 2009

..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

1125 PM FREEZING RAIN MARBLE FALLS 30.58N 98.27W
01/27/2009 E0.00 INCH BURNET TX LAW ENFORCEMENT

MARBLE FALLS POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS ICE ON BRIDGES
IN MARBLE FALLS.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1113 PM CST TUE JAN 27 2009

..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

1050 PM FREEZING RAIN 8 W AUSTIN 30.27N 97.88W
01/27/2009 E0.00 INCH TRAVIS TX UTILITY COMPANY

AUSTIN ENERGY ELECTRICAL CREWS REPORT ICE BEGINNING TO
ACCUMULATE ON POLES AND POWER LINES NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF BARTON CREEK BLVD AND BEE CAVE RD.
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#766 Postby iorange55 » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:46 am

Well it's ending here as sleet, it's coming down kind of hard, i just went outside the car is frozen solid, it would take a lot of scrapping to get the ice off. I almost slipped and it's freaking cold!!!!!!!!!!!
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#767 Postby Shoshana » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:00 am

I just went outside again to see what's going on.. and it's raining, freezing on impact on the cars and light poles. The street and sidewalk are just wet at this point.

Anything metal is ice covered. I couldn't tell if the tree were getting iced yet tho but I'm sure they will.

Times like these I'm glad we have underground utilities.
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#768 Postby somethingfunny » Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:42 am

Well, no snowburst for me. It seems like the area of white on the wfaa.com "winter radar" turned out to be virga, because all precipitation ended here when the sleet line passed. However that system was remarkably accurate with the changeover from rain to freezing rain, and from freezing rain to sleet, as well as the back edge of the sleet.

We've actually been dry since about 11 or 11:15.

Too bad I can't take pictures...the sleet layer isn't especially thick, but it does give everything a nice wintry white tone that I like.

I couldn't test the road conditions if I wanted to, as I won't be able to open my car until it gets above freezing tomorrow afternoon.
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#769 Postby iorange55 » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:16 am

Watching the news this morning...wow all the highways basically are just covered with a sheet ice, looks pretty from a far view from home.
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#770 Postby Portastorm » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:26 am

Good for you Shoshana! Glad you had a moment of some white stuff. I didn't see anything but rain here in SW Austin.

This morning we have ice on exposed objects outside and a little ice on the asphalt surfaces but as I suspected, not much of an event. It was simply a bit too warm here in AUS to have a substantial effect. Oh well, at least it rained and God knows we need that!!
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#771 Postby jasons2k » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:35 am

I can't believe it - not a drop here in Houston - we are left dry once again.
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#772 Postby cheezyWXguy » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:08 am

well im off of school, with about .25-.3 inches of sleet/ice on the roads. Not much, but just enough for a day of freedom
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#773 Postby vbhoutex » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:33 am

jasons wrote:I can't believe it - not a drop here in Houston - we are left dry once again.

That's the basics of it!!! After a promising start here at the house we ended up with less than 0.1" of rain before it was all done. Only a few minor damp spots to show for it and the ground is still bone dry.
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#774 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:41 am

I had a few rain drops on the car this morning.
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#775 Postby gboudx » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:42 am

cheezyWXguy wrote:well im off of school, with about .25-.3 inches of sleet/ice on the roads. Not much, but just enough for a day of freedom


How much ice would it take to be more than "not much"? 0.25-0.30 is plenty enough to cause problems. Do you want tree limbs cracking and power lines falling?
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#776 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:49 am

gboudx wrote:
cheezyWXguy wrote:well im off of school, with about .25-.3 inches of sleet/ice on the roads. Not much, but just enough for a day of freedom


How much ice would it take to be more than "not much"? 0.25-0.30 is plenty enough to cause problems. Do you want tree limbs cracking and power lines falling?


Check out local storm reports from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. They got that! An inch of ice accretion and lots of exploding transformers.
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#777 Postby JenBayles » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:00 am

Lucy pulled the football on the rain chances. <sigh> I'm glad I listened to my gut and watered yesterday. Pulled another copperhead out of the pool skimmer too. The raccoons are tearing up the yard every time I water, and the people who have automatic sprinkler systems look like they've been hit with meteorites. I've never seen it so dry in winter.
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#778 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:16 am

JenBayles wrote:Lucy pulled the football on the rain chances. <sigh> I'm glad I listened to my gut and watered yesterday. Pulled another copperhead out of the pool skimmer too. The raccoons are tearing up the yard every time I water, and the people who have automatic sprinkler systems look like they've been hit with meteorites. I've never seen it so dry in winter.



I think its armadillos, not raccoons...
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Re: 2008-09 Texas Winter Weather Thread

#779 Postby Shoshana » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:18 am

Well, it's cold and sunny now. Ice is starting to melt off roofs and cars, street seems fine.
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#780 Postby JenBayles » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:21 am

No armadillos. We thought the same thing and put out the live traps. We've caught many armadillos over the years, but this time it's all coons and the occasional possum. The damage is a bit different than you see with armadillos as well. As long as they're not a lactating female, the critters get relocated to Bear Creek Park near Langham creek.
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