Texas Winter 2016-2017
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year everyone!!!
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year everyone!
Wow the Euro is much warmer than the GFS now... DFW Wednesday is in the upper 40s and almost hits 70 on Thursday!!!
Front comes through Thursday Night and temps plunge below freezing. Bone dry so far
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BTW, close to an inch of rain falls tomorrow night/Monday morning.
Wow the Euro is much warmer than the GFS now... DFW Wednesday is in the upper 40s and almost hits 70 on Thursday!!!

Front comes through Thursday Night and temps plunge below freezing. Bone dry so far
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BTW, close to an inch of rain falls tomorrow night/Monday morning.
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year!
With that and a fresh year, the Euro gives us a fresh look! Trough in the east coast 0z yesterday, elongated flatter trough now over us! What a difference 24 hours once again!
With that and a fresh year, the Euro gives us a fresh look! Trough in the east coast 0z yesterday, elongated flatter trough now over us! What a difference 24 hours once again!
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
These models are still all over the place
Thursday is near 70 and Friday is in the 20s most of the day at DFW on the Euro lol. Storm goes up east of us.
Thursday is near 70 and Friday is in the 20s most of the day at DFW on the Euro lol. Storm goes up east of us.
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Visual
0z last night

0z tonight, both for Thurs evening

That is pretty crazy!
0z last night

0z tonight, both for Thurs evening

That is pretty crazy!
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Flurries Friday Night in DFW on the Euro. Very cold, temps in the teens just outside the metro
what a weird run
Saturday struggles to get above freezing
what a weird run
Saturday struggles to get above freezing
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017

Happy New Year everyone! I'm very thankful for another wet year across Texas in 2016. Much of the state received above normal rainfall this year, with some places getting 20 inches more than average! I hope we have another wet year in 2017!

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Brent wrote:Flurries Friday Night in DFW on the Euro. Very cold, temps in the teens just outside the metro
what a weird run
Saturday struggles to get above freezing
It actually took a step in the right direction. If we can keep the energy coming down from the north to dig a little further west and southward, we'd stand a better chance. Kind of similar to what the Canadian trended to
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
The digging system will be in the Pac NW tomorrow. If there's going to be shifts or changes I suspect the runs tomorrow will be important.


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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Bump, posting this 500mb analysis for academics and in case I need to go back and looking at the 5h pattern if it turns out to be something long in the future
. Plus you don't see 570dm+ in the northeast Pacific all that often, pretty uncommon. The last one I think was December 2013, three years ago.

Correction Nuri blast Nov 2014 had a 570dm ridge along the Canadian/Alaskan border


Correction Nuri blast Nov 2014 had a 570dm ridge along the Canadian/Alaskan border
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year! Why am I still up, and now looking at the weather? It's a sickness. Or maybe the sickness is from mixing bourbon, beer and champagne in he same evening. Whatever, here is to an exciting 2017 for Texas weather (hopefully starting this week). Be safe out there.
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year S2K!
Now a quick recap of December, both the month and the 2016 year have come to a end, and what a warm year it was.
December monthly mean ended @ +2.6 above average with 20 of the 31 days recording a above average daily temperature. The monthly precipitation for December was -1.95" below average. (official location at DFW Airport) the official H/L for the month was 83 & 16 degrees.
2016 should make it into the top 5 warmest years on record, and for NTX we recorded 11 of 12 months with a above average monthly mean temperature, only July was below average.
Will have to wait for Mondays SST update but from the latest readings the waters off the western coast of Chili at the equator have warmed considerably over December and Nina regions 3 & 4 have warmed to -0.4 or higher which would end the 3 month over lapping period of a -0.5 or greater temperature signaling an end of La Nina conditions and a transition to ENSO neutral. (November 31st SST reading was -0.8)
So what is left for winter? I still think January will be slightly above average for temps, and average to slightly above average precipitation. Will it snow, sleet, or what? Yes, we will some frozen precipitation this month, but not a lot. February is still the target to get a significant winter storm, maybe more than 1. February will be below average temperature wise and will see above average precipitation, and the cold may stretch into early March.
This is just my opinion on the remainder of the 2016/17 winter and should be considered as a best guess.
Now a quick recap of December, both the month and the 2016 year have come to a end, and what a warm year it was.
December monthly mean ended @ +2.6 above average with 20 of the 31 days recording a above average daily temperature. The monthly precipitation for December was -1.95" below average. (official location at DFW Airport) the official H/L for the month was 83 & 16 degrees.
2016 should make it into the top 5 warmest years on record, and for NTX we recorded 11 of 12 months with a above average monthly mean temperature, only July was below average.
Will have to wait for Mondays SST update but from the latest readings the waters off the western coast of Chili at the equator have warmed considerably over December and Nina regions 3 & 4 have warmed to -0.4 or higher which would end the 3 month over lapping period of a -0.5 or greater temperature signaling an end of La Nina conditions and a transition to ENSO neutral. (November 31st SST reading was -0.8)
So what is left for winter? I still think January will be slightly above average for temps, and average to slightly above average precipitation. Will it snow, sleet, or what? Yes, we will some frozen precipitation this month, but not a lot. February is still the target to get a significant winter storm, maybe more than 1. February will be below average temperature wise and will see above average precipitation, and the cold may stretch into early March.
This is just my opinion on the remainder of the 2016/17 winter and should be considered as a best guess.
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year everyone!
May 2017 bring:
Snow for Portastorm this WInter
Warmth for wxman57 this Summer
Rain for everyone throughout the year
May 2017 bring:
Snow for Portastorm this WInter
Warmth for wxman57 this Summer
Rain for everyone throughout the year
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
dhweather wrote:Happy New Year everyone!
May 2017 bring:
Snow for Portastorm this WInter
Warmth for wxman57 this Summer
Rain for everyone throughout the year
Couldn't have said it better myself, dhweather!

Happy New Year to all you good folks who make the Texas weather threads and this forum such a joy. Y'all rock!
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
Happy New Year, everyone. I'd prefer my warmth in the winter, please. It's always warm in summer. 
The 6Z GFS has 2 days of semi-winter this week, followed by a return to above-normal temps in Houston. Perhaps some heavy thunderstorms tomorrow morning. GFS has over an inch of rain between 9am and noon on Monday:


The 6Z GFS has 2 days of semi-winter this week, followed by a return to above-normal temps in Houston. Perhaps some heavy thunderstorms tomorrow morning. GFS has over an inch of rain between 9am and noon on Monday:

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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017
The warmth in interior Alaska is pretty amazing for this time of year. Many locations have temps in the 30's. Extremely warm for this time of year.
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Snowman67 wrote:The warmth in interior Alaska is pretty amazing for this time of year. Many locations have temps in the 30's. Extremely warm for this time of year.
Stout -EPO ridge over them. Very anomalous.

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Ntxw wrote:Snowman67 wrote:The warmth in interior Alaska is pretty amazing for this time of year. Many locations have temps in the 30's. Extremely warm for this time of year.
Stout -EPO ridge over them. Very anomalous.
http://i67.tinypic.com/24pc3vb.png
Barrow about 40F warmer than normal.
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Re: Texas Winter 2016-2017

Looking forward to another year on S2k. I'll drop you guys a donation as I think I'm long overdue. I guess things can change but it appears Lucy pulled the football again for this upcoming week with all the pretty model runs of multiple wintry weather events and bone-chilling air. Hopefully we all get at least 1 sleet or snow event this winter.
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