Texas Winter 2017-2018

[Brent]

Above freezing at DFW Friday morning on this run

The thing that’s just weird to me is I don’t ever recall so many dense cold air masses want to move east and southeast like this in December. I mean dang, some places are staying 5 or 10 degrees colder for the whole entire run it seems. What’s it going to take for one of these artic blasts to move into our area? It’s so frustrating!!

Well next weekend is colder this run now, lol in the 30s next Sunday morning

but I agree I'm very irritated. We sit through months of heat, get our hopes about some pattern for cold, and now struggle to get real cold

and I'm concerned this will be last like winter where we torch later in the winter so its like now's the time

This whole last couple of months the extent of the warmth has just surprised me that it happened again this year

then I even had a gut feeling earlier in the week the cold would be east, should have stuck with it

[TXdaddy217]

Wow... I know it's been a while since I have been on, but am I really seeing wxman57 turning to the dark side, or should I say the cold side.

May the force of the Christmas Eve 2009 blizzard be with us this year.

[JDawg512]

Rain chances drop off after Tuesday per latest EWX forecast discussion. Not happy about it but not unexpected either.

[hriverajr]

12Z GFS is just terrible if you want real winter in Texas..... Fairly good cold front Tue morning.. but still compared to promise earlier, underwhelming.

[gpsnowman]

Predicted high temps have really gone up the three days before the front arrives, and even then temps don't to be as cold after the front either. Today and Monday look to be near 80!!! Man, I thought we were finishes with 80's. Only a dream I guess. The new normal for DFW winters. No full fledged arctic blasts but at least we should be 50's-30's for a few days. That will feel nice. The pattern looked great and still does for colder weather but the east/southeast appear to be the winners this time around.

[starsfan65]

Predicted high temps have really gone up the three days before the front arrives, and even then temps don't to be as cold after the front either. Today and Monday look to be near 80!!! Man, I thought we were finishes with 80's. Only a dream I guess. The new normal for DFW winters. No full fledged arctic blasts but at least we should be 50's-30's for a few days. That will feel nice. The pattern looked great and still does for colder weather but the east/southeast appear to be the winners this time around.

It will change.

[Cheyenne ridge]

It's not just Texas suffering.This pattern gave us a snowless November here in Cheyenne Wyoming, and a high in the mid 70's just last week!!

[Tejas89]

Fairbanks, AK looks quite warm on their 7-day.. high above freezing later in the forecast.

Nothing to source from if you're looking for anything extraordinary, for at least the first half of December.

[Brent]

New normal to have fewer freezes?

GFS went from such promise to winter cancel

[starsfan65]

New normal to have fewer freezes?

GFS went from such promise to winter cancel

Never give up on winter.

[Ntxw]

Fairbanks, AK looks quite warm on their 7-day.. high above freezing later in the forecast.

Nothing to source from if you're looking for anything extraordinary, for at least the first half of December.

Alaska is experiencing an abnormally warm stretch. The North Pacific NPO (-EPO) ridge the past 30 days has brought higher heights and warmth from the Ocean northward (Nina ridge). The colder air is to the east of them in NW Canada

[Yukon Cornelius]

Sad. Above average seems to be the new norm.

[Brent]

Sad. Above average seems to be the new norm.

El Nino, La Nina, everything has been warm now...

wonder if some places will just stop having freezes south of here in the winter seriously.

[bubba hotep]

Euro has DFW back over 0.5" of rain with this next system. Hopefully, we can hold on to that lol

[Brent]

Euro has DFW back over 0.5" of rain with this next system. Hopefully, we can hold on to that lol

NAM has a fast moving solid but thin line around midnight Monday night. Looks like a quarter inch or so most areas

[Cpv17]

Sad. Above average seems to be the new norm.

El Nino, La Nina, everything has been warm now...

wonder if some places will just stop having freezes south of here in the winter seriously.

I know it’s part of human nature to get your hopes up about some cold weather coming with all the hype there was so therefore this is a lot easier saying it than actually doing it, but I’m personally going to try my hardest not to get my hopes up anymore unless there’s a unanimous consensus agreement that it’s actually going to happen within 3 or 4 days. Then yeah, I’ll have my hopes up, but all this hype about something that’s a week or two away and then ends up never happening is too frustrating. Not good for my health lol

[gboudx]

it’s actually going to happen within 3 or 4 days. Then yeah, I’ll have my hopes up, but all this hype about something that’s a week or two away and then ends up never happening is too frustrating. Not good for my health lol

For me it’s 1-2 days, and even then I don’t completely buy in until it’s falling from the sky. I’ve seen too many sleet and snow events be a cold rain due to some unforeseen warm layer.

[Brent]

DFW doesnt go below 38 on the gfs

Im done lol maybe winter will exist in Chicago next month when I'm there

[starsfan65]

DFW doesnt go below 38 on the gfs

Im done lol maybe winter will exist in Chicago next month when I'm there

Are you sure?

[Portastorm]

I'm seeing more cliff diving here than they've ever seen in Acapulco! C'mon guys ... it's only December 2nd and you're ready to give up on winter. Sheesh.

We can all rest in the comfort of the words offered by wxman57: cold and snow and ice in Texas this winter.

Keep the faith!