Texas Winter 2020-2021

[katheria]

:blowup:

wxman’s wall as we speak:

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Wxman57... Tare down that wall..

After this, I'm joining with my warm-hearted cycling buddy, Wxman57 and I will help build the wall myself. This crap is for the birds.

Yep ill help build it back also...
You know i always thought about retirement in Alaska..its soo beautiful up there...
The answer to that is now blank that!
Belize looks alot better...

[Quixotic]

As I predicted, backyard facing south is at 5.25” while the front side is well over 6”. The back is based on a flat surface (Adirondack chair arms in this case) away from the wind and away from the stuff blowing off the roof. Front yard was several measurements in the middle. Snow excellence is none of my too long grass sticking out and I have that on both sides. No big flakes anymore. Pixie dust.

Nearly lost my fingers taking out the snow covered trash cans without gloves. Probably won’t even pick up tomorrow.

[Ntxw]

@Brent

Was today your best snow chase?

[Ralph's Weather]

Snow is dumping now over 1" per hour rate right now.

[Brent]

@Brent

Was today your best snow chase?

Haha well I liked the big fat flakes in Waco better but the blowing snow and being home for this was pretty good too lol

[Ntxw]

These bands coming through putting down some decent snow. DFW'S vis is down again.

[AubreyStorm]

Another update here in Denton, Texas.
Here we go with (-14) at 8:27pm
•RealFeel•

[gpsnowman]

I have to get up at 5. Any significant bands I need to wake up to? Sleepy eyes are getting heavy. Early to bed early to rise.

[Ntxw]

I have to get up at 5. Any significant bands I need to wake up to? Sleepy eyes are getting heavy. Early to bed early to rise.

We may get clipped with some good snow 2-5am period from the south. If you miss it, it will be on the ground in the morning.

[jaguars_22]

Snow band over Mexico Texas border looks good!!! Anyone believe I could get some of that band here in Victoria

[Brent]

NAM looking rather icy on Wednesday

[dhweather]

If you have a heat pump, you should be running on auxiliary heat/emergency heat mode. Too cold to run a heat pump now

No, it automatically shifts into aux heat. Forcing it will skyrocket bills.

But in Aux both my Heat Pump, which was buried in a snow drift and has a block ice inside of it because it could not thaw, and electric heat were running. I'm trying to theoretically save the Heat Pump from damage. Ironically my electric plan gets cheaper per KWh the more I use. I'll put it back to just heat perhaps tomorrow when it "warms up" and make sure the fan is not frozen over I guess. Just trying to survive.

I was also concerned about short cycling the heat pump.

Around 40 degrees, the heat pump reaches a point it can no longer efficiently extract heat from the outside. It will still try to work, but will use more energy than auxiliary heat because it has to run more. Once you get below 25, you run a higher risk of damaging the compressor. We've been on auxiliary 4 days now, and I won't complain, I'll need that compressor this summer

[HockeyTx82]

Ok here they are. Bookmark them if you want to see them in 4K later on as YouTube is taking a bit to process them it appears.

Anyhow, shot these on my Samsung Note 20 5G Ultra.

Hope they look ok on your end, be sure and click the gear to make them go HD 60FPS and full screen. I tried to stay quiet to capture the sounds the best I could.

Please share as you like. Now that I got this setup I'll be sure and do more of this stuff for here.

[youtube]https://youtu.be/IyLbFk4n4zY[/youtube]

[youtube]https://youtu.be/eY-FlD8fbgU[/youtube]

[youtube]https://youtu.be/22MvkTt6J-w[/youtube]

[BigD938]

Looks like the precip shield is past dfw now, the one behind it coming out of Mexico headed this way?
What do we look like Wednesday now?

[snowballzzz]

Alright Austin and San Antonio area - it is almost our turn! Radar is filling in and looking good!

[iorange55]

Love the videos!

Really hope the Wednesday storm isn’t an icy mess. That might be the final blow to really cause some major issues.

It’s already a mess, but add a major ice storm on top of this? Yikes.

[rwfromkansas]

Well winding down. But, pretty good first storm. Definitely beat NWS 3-4 initial forecast. Looks like around 5. Not ready to freeze my butt off to check.

[rwfromkansas]

No, it automatically shifts into aux heat. Forcing it will skyrocket bills.

But in Aux both my Heat Pump, which was buried in a snow drift and has a block ice inside of it because it could not thaw, and electric heat were running. I'm trying to theoretically save the Heat Pump from damage. Ironically my electric plan gets cheaper per KWh the more I use. I'll put it back to just heat perhaps tomorrow when it "warms up" and make sure the fan is not frozen over I guess. Just trying to survive.

I was also concerned about short cycling the heat pump.

Around 40 degrees, the heat pump reaches a point it can no longer efficiently extract heat from the outside. It will still try to work, but will use more energy than auxiliary heat because it has to run more. Once you get below 25, you run a higher risk of damaging the compressor. We've been on auxiliary 4 days now, and I won't complain, I'll need that compressor this summer

Geez, everybody has different opinions on this. I keep seeing the opposite in articles, so confusing.

[tolakram]

Around 40 degrees, the heat pump reaches a point it can no longer efficiently extract heat from the outside. It will still try to work, but will use more energy than auxiliary heat because it has to run more. Once you get below 25, you run a higher risk of damaging the compressor. We've been on auxiliary 4 days now, and I won't complain, I'll need that compressor this summer

I don't want to get in a heat pump argument but unless Texas heat pumps are wimpy I don't think this is true, or is no longer true. Maybe it depends on the age of the pump? We run ours all the time as recommended and regularly get down to single digits every winter. It may not be very efficient but there's no risk of damage. Snow drifts over the pump are a different story, of course.

Ours does not need auxiliary heat until the outside temp falls below 20F, it's a Carrier unit that's about 12 years old.

[utweather]

16.9 degrees and still falling in SE Austin with a large precip shield on the way from the southwest. This ought to be interesting.