Texas Winter 2010-2011

[Shoshana]

We got less than Portastorm. A layer of ice, then that lumpy stuff then maybe .1/4" of snow on top. Sun is out but I don't hear melting yet.

Cold water pipe in kitchen froze. Was fine up till sometime this morning. I'm hoping it will defrost without breaking, our next door neighbor lost hot and cold but the ice melted and they're workin again.

We had that happen in 1983...luckily the pipe didn't break.

Worried about my outside faucets.

I am too. Especially the one that got overlooked till yesterday and had the hose still attached! I disconnected and wrapped it. The handle was frozen so I couldn't turn it to even check...

[Turtle]

Wow, I got about 1" of snow in Marshall. There's a WSW 35 miles north and 35 miles south of us. Well this is better than the dusting/flurries I said earlier. Once again Texarakana and the Dallas area out-snows us.

[Brandon8181]

Heavy heavy snow in Sherman coming down wow...

[missytingarland]

Heavy heavy snow in Sherman coming down wow...

My mom is in Sherman. She was going to try to go to work. Thank goodness I talked her out of it!

[iorange55]

I took some video of some the snow throughout the night/morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXbbCtklAs

Also I made a Texas version of the "Lake Shore Drive" masterpiece from Chicago.

[DonWrk]

This was definitely a sweet surprise. One of those suppose to be one inchers turns into half a foot. I love those Any word on the system for next week? I know a lot of places in Oklahoma and the panhandle have multiple days with chances of snow. I'm about to read up.

[Portastorm]

I took some video of some the snow throughout the night/morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXbbCtklAs

Also I made a Texas version of the "Lake Shore Drive" masterpiece from Chicago.

http://i54.tinypic.com/zlqn7s.jpg

The sense of humor and talents from Storm2K members never ceases to amaze me! That is simply hilarious, iorange55. Well done!

[Ntxw]

Also I made a Texas version of the "Lake Shore Drive" masterpiece from Chicago.

LOl...can't top that man! Some pictures of my walk this morning at NW Park.

[gboudx]

I took some video of some the snow throughout the night/morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXbbCtklAs

Also I made a Texas version of the "Lake Shore Drive" masterpiece from Chicago.

http://i54.tinypic.com/zlqn7s.jpg

If S2K had a rep system, I'd give you +rep. Nicely done.

+rep

[Portastorm]

Nice pix, Ntxw ... who would have thought that Dallas is the new Chicago (winter weatherwise)?!

Hey, if you get a chance and haven't seen 'em ... I posted a few pix from the PWC around daylight.

[MSUDawg]

Finally tally...between 3.25 and 3.5 here at Centreport just south of DFW Intl (183/360) it's so beautiful.

Now time to get some rest...

[Ntxw]

Nice pix, Ntxw ... who would have thought that Dallas is the new Chicago (winter weatherwise)?!

Hey, if you get a chance and haven't seen 'em ... I posted a few pix from the PWC around daylight.

I saw them, what a surprise storm for everybody. I'm glad you got your dose of SNEAX/ICE mix. No more complaining for another decade .

[iorange55]

Nice pix, Ntxw ... who would have thought that Dallas is the new Chicago (winter weatherwise)?!

Hey, if you get a chance and haven't seen 'em ... I posted a few pix from the PWC around daylight.

I saw those! Actually covered the ground pretty well. Did you actually get to see it falling?

[Ntxw]

We need to ship some of this over to txagwxman, he seems to be in a prolonged snow drought!

[Portastorm]

Nice pix, Ntxw ... who would have thought that Dallas is the new Chicago (winter weatherwise)?!

Hey, if you get a chance and haven't seen 'em ... I posted a few pix from the PWC around daylight.

I saw those! Actually covered the ground pretty well. Did you actually get to see it falling?

Nah ... it hit around 2-3 am and I was sound asleep. Had to be up at 5 am to help decide if my business would be open or not. By 5 am, it was done. We had this weird chronological mixture of freezing drizzle first, then snow grains, then light snow. No one saw the freezing drizzle coming and I go back to Ntxw's comments about a lack of upper air data in Texas and how problematic that makes winter forecasts.

As for Ntxw's comments about me not complaining for another decade ... c'mon man. What would the Storm2K Winter Forum be without Portastorm griping he "got a rock" while Dallas gets yet another half-foot snow bonanza!

One final thing ... I still would like to know how this event transpired and what changed. Seems like the ULL had more moisture to deal with than previously thought and it also seems like its track ended up being a little further north than what we all thought, right? I'm not talking about forecasts last night where everyone pretty much knew by 9 pm that you guys in Dallas were going to get hammered. I mean the modeling from like 24-48 hours prior to the event.

Anyhow, hope y'all are having fun up there!

[txagwxman]

Why Houston did not get snow:

1) 546 thickness.
2) 850 mb temps > 0C.
3) When the 850's got cold enough, we got dry slotted...this morning we had a band of snow heading towards Houston and it broke apart.

Oh de well.

[txagwxman]

We need to ship some of this over to txagwxman, he seems to be in a prolonged snow drought!

I am going to Utah in March...to the heck with this.

[Ntxw]

One final thing ... I still would like to know how this event transpired and what changed. Seems like the ULL had more moisture to deal with than previously thought and it also seems like its track ended up being a little further north than what we all thought, right? I'm not talking about forecasts last night where everyone pretty much knew by 9 pm that you guys in Dallas were going to get hammered. I mean the modeling from like 24-48 hours prior to the event.

Anyhow, hope y'all are having fun up there!

I had a feeling a couple of days ago this might be the scenario. A few SREF and even GEFS suggested there would be a large slug of moisture riding right up I-35. Models consistently showed mixing around Houston which was always in the back of my head since they were so close to the gulf. Most of their moisture was going to come directly from the 'train' of moisture down there and not the upper low itself directly.

For us, I remember saying follow the upper low. The track of it never changed in short range guidance I-35 was prime, only most had surface moisture meeting in CLL. The right front quadrant and left side would have tremendous lift since the system was shown to be cutoff over TX by the NAM and short range models and had enough to overcome the dry air up here (it was coming down with yellow echoes but no snow on the ground for a time). If there was more warmer/moist air down south, someone could've gotten a blizzard.

[DonWrk]

Amazing how it is still coming down pretty heavy here. Probably picked up another 2 inches since 9 this morning.

[brewskymc]

Nice pix, Ntxw ... who would have thought that Dallas is the new Chicago (winter weatherwise)?!

Hey, if you get a chance and haven't seen 'em ... I posted a few pix from the PWC around daylight.

I saw those! Actually covered the ground pretty well. Did you actually get to see it falling?

Nah ... it hit around 2-3 am and I was sound asleep. Had to be up at 5 am to help decide if my business would be open or not. By 5 am, it was done. We had this weird chronological mixture of freezing drizzle first, then snow grains, then light snow. No one saw the freezing drizzle coming and I go back to Ntxw's comments about a lack of upper air data in Texas and how problematic that makes winter forecasts.

As for Ntxw's comments about me not complaining for another decade ... c'mon man. What would the Storm2K Winter Forum be without Portastorm griping he "got a rock" while Dallas gets yet another half-foot snow bonanza!

One final thing ... I still would like to know how this event transpired and what changed. Seems like the ULL had more moisture to deal with than previously thought and it also seems like its track ended up being a little further north than what we all thought, right? I'm not talking about forecasts last night where everyone pretty much knew by 9 pm that you guys in Dallas were going to get hammered. I mean the modeling from like 24-48 hours prior to the event.

Anyhow, hope y'all are having fun up there!

SouthernMet should be able to give you some insight on that... He had been hinting for a few days that the event would be bigger than expected in NTX. Also, after I made the "virga storm" comment early yesterday, he assured me that the system would have plenty of moisture to work with.