Texas Winter 2013-2014

[wxman57]

Interesting. RUC sounding indicates entire moisture column is below freezing, which would mean you should be seeing only snow. Clearly the air over Richardson is above freezing at some point up there.

[aggiecutter]

Light Snow being reported in Texarkana. The new NWS forecast has a 70% of snow for tonight.

[Ralph's Weather]

Another good snow shower here, we need temps to drop just a bit.

[Kelarie]

Holy bleeping cowbell Batman, it is snowing here in Nash (a wee outside of Texarkana). Just started.

[gboudx]

Interesting. RUC sounding indicates entire moisture column is below freezing, which would mean you should be seeing only snow. Clearly the air over Richardson is above freezing at some point up there.

I went outside to check it out. It's graupel and snow flurries. But it's changed over to all snow now.

[wxman57]

Interesting. RUC sounding indicates entire moisture column is below freezing, which would mean you should be seeing only snow. Clearly the air over Richardson is above freezing at some point up there.

I went outside to check it out. It's graupel and snow flurries. But it's changed over to all snow now.

Could have been a transient warm pocket. The atmosphere isn't a uniform medium.

[Portastorm]

Well another "winter" is just about over and another "winter" without snow in Austin. It's been TEN YEARS now since a measurable snow fell in Austin.

Today's non-event and the snow you North Texas peeps are now enjoying just adds salt to the wounds. It may be time for someone else to pick up the Winter Weather flag and fly it each year. Ntxw and orangeblood with help from ravyn and Texas Snowman seem like good candidates to me. Retirement for the PWC looks pretty good right now.

[TexasF6]

Never give up Porta!!! I saw some flurries when a mix went over me today. There is always hope...Never give up!!!!!!!!!!!

[South Texas Storms]

Well another "winter" is just about over and another "winter" without snow in Austin. It's been TEN YEARS now since a measurable snow fell in Austin.

Today's non-event and the snow you North Texas peeps are now enjoying just adds salt to the wounds. It may be time for someone else to pick up the Winter Weather flag and fly it each year. Ntxw and orangeblood with help from ravyn and Texas Snowman seem like good candidates to me. Retirement for the PWC looks pretty good right now.

Don't give up yet Porta! EWX mentions winter precip is possible with the system early next week in their afternoon AFD today:

"MONDAY THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE
REGION BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION. BEHIND THE FRONT
COLD AIR WILL SETTLE IN AND ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL LEAD TO LIGHT
PRECIPITATION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE
FOR WINTER PRECIPITATION TUESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY MORNING.
TUESDAY MORNING LOOKS LIKE THE CHANCE IS ONLY OVER THE HILL
COUNTRY...WHILE WEDNESDAY MORNING CHANCES WILL MOVE TO MUCH OF THE
EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS."

[Portastorm]

Well another "winter" is just about over and another "winter" without snow in Austin. It's been TEN YEARS now since a measurable snow fell in Austin.

Today's non-event and the snow you North Texas peeps are now enjoying just adds salt to the wounds. It may be time for someone else to pick up the Winter Weather flag and fly it each year. Ntxw and orangeblood with help from ravyn and Texas Snowman seem like good candidates to me. Retirement for the PWC looks pretty good right now.

Don't give up yet Porta! EWX mentions winter precip is possible with the system early next week in their afternoon AFD today:

"MONDAY THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE
REGION BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION. BEHIND THE FRONT
COLD AIR WILL SETTLE IN AND ISENTROPIC LIFT WILL LEAD TO LIGHT
PRECIPITATION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE
FOR WINTER PRECIPITATION TUESDAY MORNING AND WEDNESDAY MORNING.
TUESDAY MORNING LOOKS LIKE THE CHANCE IS ONLY OVER THE HILL
COUNTRY...WHILE WEDNESDAY MORNING CHANCES WILL MOVE TO MUCH OF THE
EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH MOVES ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS."

No, no, no, no ... that is Lucy in disguise! I'm telling you. It's a trap! I've seen it before multiple times this winter.

It's a sad thing as I've become the Randy Quaid character from "Major League I and II" about winter weather possibilities. How ironic since the Indians are my favorite baseball team.

[TexasStorm]

Getting graupel here in south Dallas.

[TheProfessor]

I hope Tuesday will be better for everybody in Texas. (winter wise)

[KeriCarter]

Snowing pretty heavily here in Texarkana (Arkansas) at the moment. Is accumulating. Pretty light and fluffy. Moderate sized flakes. Just beautiful.

[Portastorm]

I can report a very tiny thin super thin layer of ice on my car's windshield and the street looks a little damp but doesn't look like there is any ice on it. It's definitely not like how it was the last go around and I can safely say I can walk outside without slipping and cracking anymore ribs like the last time as well.

ACC ended up canceling all classes today around 7 a.m. or so. With all of the closures especially early announced ones, it's got to be due to what happened during the last event and they did not want a repeat of that since so many people complained. I wonder how the end result of today will turn out?

Good report and that was my experience as well in southwest Austin.

Had the drizzle started when it was initially thought to start (4-5 a.m.), evaporative cooling would have dropped surface temps a few degrees and the light freezing drizzle would have ended up having a more negative impact on the Austin metro area. Because it didn't start until 8:30 a.m. or so, temps were already upper 20s/30 and some daylight and a bit of top-down heating (from the growing warmer, moist layer above) and we were at 32 by lunchtime. Once again, it was a game of inches, so to speak.

It's been a very tough road lately here for ISDs and meteorologists.

[iorange55]

Cedar Hill area has been under a moderate graupel shower for the past 10 minutes or so. Enough to show up in the grass in a little bit.

Now, we're getting some pretty big snowflakes!

[ravyrn]

Well another "winter" is just about over and another "winter" without snow in Austin. It's been TEN YEARS now since a measurable snow fell in Austin.

Today's non-event and the snow you North Texas peeps are now enjoying just adds salt to the wounds. It may be time for someone else to pick up the Winter Weather flag and fly it each year. Ntxw and orangeblood with help from ravyn and Texas Snowman seem like good candidates to me. Retirement for the PWC looks pretty good right now.

No measurable snow here yet either. I'm still waving that flag though. Maybe next week will hold some surprises for us.

[Ralph's Weather]

A dusting so far in downtown Tyler. Hope we get more than that this evening in Lindale and hopefully no ice tonight.

[ravyrn]

Any photos out of Texarkana?

[dhweather]

From the FWD AFD - the end is near?

IN THE WAKE OF THE TUESDAY SYSTEM...RAPID DRYING AND WARMING WILL
OCCUR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN LOOKS TO
SHIFT NEXT WEEK WITH A MORE PROGRESSIVE LONGWAVE PATTERN. THE JET
STREAM SHOULD MOVE FARTHER NORTH AS AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE
SUBTROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC INTENSIFIES. THIS SHOULD KEEP THE
ARCTIC AIR BOTTLED UP IN CANADA AS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS BEGIN TO
TRACK ALONG THE CANADIAN/US BORDER. FOR NORTH TEXAS WE WILL LIKELY
SEE FREQUENT MID-FEBRUARY PACIFIC FRONTS...BUT UNFORTUNATELY
RIDGING EXTENDING UP THROUGH THE SONORA DESERT WILL PUT US IN A
DRIER FLOW ALOFT. RAIN CHANCES LOOK MINIMAL...BUT TEMPERATURES
SHOULD WARM TO NEAR OR ABOVE NORMAL.

[Ntxw]

Yes yes the end is near, snow and cold is unheard of in March. We will close the coldest winter wall to wall in a long time in Mid February!
Retrograding trough in Alaska is a death call, bring on a hot spring and summer inducing more drought and heat! Time to move on to other threads.