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#4801 Postby Tireman4 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:47 am

Ehh Porta. I am just not ready to ride the train sir. It is sleek. It is fast. It is not on the tracks..yet...:)
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4802 Postby TheProfessor » Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:40 am

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Hmm the 6z GFS has North Texas getting 3-7 inches of sleet through Monday, I couldn't imagine how much snow that would be if it were snow. :eek: Anyway, hopefully some more models will catch on to this, we are getting pretty close to the event or possible lack thereof.
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#4803 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:46 am

Here are some 6Z GFS meteograms. No more single digits for the D-FW area or mid teens for Houston (no big surprise there). Doesn't look very warm next week. Interesting precip event for NE TX on Monday? I hope that you get your snow there next week so we can forget all this talk of winter and start a spring discussion of 80+ temps.

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#4804 Postby Tireman4 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:23 am

wxman57 wrote:Here are some 6Z GFS meteograms. No more single digits for the D-FW area or mid teens for Houston (no big surprise there). Doesn't look very warm next week. Interesting precip event for NE TX on Monday? I hope that you get your snow there next week so we can forget all this talk of winter and start a spring discussion of 80+ temps.


Here is the thing. If it were 85, with a NE breeze and dry, we are talking. Heck, I will take 90 with a NE breeze and dry. The humidity makes it unbearable. Yeah, I know. You don't like it Tireman, then move fella. Sigh.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4805 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:28 am

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wxman57 wrote:Here are some 6Z GFS meteograms. No more single digits for the D-FW area or mid teens for Houston (no big surprise there). Doesn't look very warm next week. Interesting precip event for NE TX on Monday? I hope that you get your snow there next week so we can forget all this talk of winter and start a spring discussion of 80+ temps.


Here is the thing. If it were 85, with a NE breeze and dry, we are talking. Heck, I will take 90 with a NE breeze and dry. The humidity makes it unbearable. Yeah, I know. You don't like it Tireman, then move fella. Sigh.


I don't care if it's humid or not. I'll give you 85-90 and dry any day over 40s and rain. However, I see nothing in the long range that indicates temperatures of 80F or more here in SE TX.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4806 Postby Kelarie » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:32 am

From Shreveport NWS

...UNTIL A POWERFUL ARCTIC COLD FRONT MOVES QUICKLY ACROSS THE AREA SAT NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY. TEMPS TO FALL
DURG THE DAYTIME SUNDAY AS THIS COLDEST AIRMASS OF THE YEAR WORKS ITS WAY INTO AREA. ANY PRECIP THAT CONTINUES FROM SUNDAY NIGHT INTO THE DAYTIME MONDAY WILL LIKELY BE FRZG...ALTHOUGH MODELS ARE NOT ALL IN LINE WITH HOW MUCH MOISTURE AND LIFT WILL BE PRESENT IN THIS FRZG AIR. WITH SKIES FINALLY CLEARING TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...BUT TO BE FOLLOWED BY MORE OVERRUNNING MOISTURE AND WITH IT THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE QUESTIONABLE PRECIP TYPE LATE WEEK TOWARDS END OF THE EXTENDED FCST PERIOD.
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#4807 Postby weatherdude1108 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:34 am

This was an article on our news clips at work today. Looks like our Highland Lakes are making history in uncharted territory, and not in a good way.
El Nino was supposed to be our saving grace. I won't buy into false promises anymore.
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LCRA: Current drought worst on record for Central Texas
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The ongoing drought impacting Central Texas' Highland Lakes is the worst the region has experienced since the lakes were built in the 1930s,…


http://kxan.com/2015/02/18/lcra-current ... ral-texas/
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4808 Postby Yukon Cornelius » Thu Feb 19, 2015 9:59 am

From the local NWS..
COOL...BUT DRY...WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK...AND
MODELS SHOW A COUPLE OF REINFORCEMENTS BY NEXT WEEKEND...THE LAST
IN FEBRUARY. JUST BEYOND THE RANGE OF THIS FORECAST...MODELS
SUGGEST ANOTHER FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT WINTER-WEATHER EVENT. WHILE
THIS IS BEYOND THE NORMAL RANGE OF MODEL CREDIBILITY...THE
SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE ECMWF AND GFS IS INTERESTING.
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#4809 Postby Ralph's Weather » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:19 am

06Z GFS is very cold and unsettled for northern Texas next week. It shows what would come out to a general 1-3 inches of sleet along the entirety of I-20 in Texas on Monday. On Thursday it shows .5" of liquid on average across North and Northeast Texas with varying precip types. Then by early March it looks more springlike with a progressive stormy pattern across the US. Not sure we go to spring quite yet though, but we will see after we get past this upcoming week of pure winter.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4810 Postby dhweather » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:24 am

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There is no way I would do this to you for the 60th straight time.
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#4811 Postby TheProfessor » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:31 am

Or maybe Lucy will make us think she is going to Lucy us only to not Lucy us which would be the Ultimate Lucy. :lol:
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4812 Postby gboudx » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:37 am

You need this one dh. It's more to the point.

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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4813 Postby Tireman4 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:40 am

dhweather wrote:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e9/Lucy_van_Pelt.png/220px-Lucy_van_Pelt.png

There is no way I would do this to you for the 60th straight time.


and now...this Winter is over. The Ice Goddess has appeared once again...Sigh...
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#4814 Postby Ntxw » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:49 am

Its Feb 19th, the time frame wxman57 and bastardi pinpointed for regime change. The cold and fronts this past week was bonus that the models caught on close range. Lets see if their calls some days ago holds!
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4815 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 10:55 am

They've just pulled the handle on the 12Z GFS run. Let's see if it comes up 3 snowflakes or 3 cold raindrops for the D-FW area this time.

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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4816 Postby Tejas89 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:08 am

DFW local mets are talking up Monday's potential quite a bit this morning.

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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4817 Postby CYCLONE MIKE » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:08 am

As much as people have been talking cold and snow the last few months I can't believe more aren't talking about the potential ice storm early next week for tx and La, and ark. I'm sure it wont pan oiut as shown by models, especially the gfs, but its only a few days out for once. What doesn't make since to me though is the cold high pressure steadily drops south into Missouri then just stops and move due east. Hence the cold air and frozen precip does the same for tx and LA. Its like it runs into a brick wall and never moves any more south and east. But of course there were freeze and hard freeze warnings posted for parts of the area around here last night and nobody got close. So maybe it will get it right this time :roll:
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4818 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:14 am

CYCLONE MIKE wrote:As much as people have been talking cold and snow the last few months I can't believe more aren't talking about the potential ice storm early next week for tx and La, and ark. I'm sure it wont pan oiut as shown by models, especially the gfs, but its only a few days out for once. What doesn't make since to me though is the cold high pressure steadily drops south into Missouri then just stops and move due east. Hence the cold air and frozen precip does the same for tx and LA. Its like it runs into a brick wall and never moves any more south and east. But of course there were freeze and hard freeze warnings posted for parts of the area around here last night and nobody got close. So maybe it will get it right this time :roll:


The airmass is looking a little colder this time for NE TX. Not a lot colder, but maybe enough colder such that any sleet/snow that falls may fall into sub-freezing surface air for at least a few hours. I don't expect anything but cold rain for Louisiana south of Alexandria. Maybe with some sleet pellets mixed in.
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Re: Texas Winter 2014-2015

#4819 Postby Portastorm » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:17 am

Wxman57 can paint it any way he wants, but the 12z GFS clearly shows a winter storm for parts of central and north Texas early next week.
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#4820 Postby wxman57 » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:22 am

See my post above yours, Portastorm. I'm agreeing that the airmass may be cold enough next week for snow in NE TX. GFS snow map is in through 102hrs at Tropical Tidbits. I wouldn't take the amounts it predicts literally, though.

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