Ntxw wrote:Quixotic wrote:Not sure if this is the same event, but I remember a quick hitter like this system in January of 85. It was almost 70 degrees and a front came through. I was walking home later that night and it was 20 but the wind was howling. Got up to throw newspapers the next morning and it was 6 with gusts up to 50 mph. We’d had a warm spell and I remember peoples lawns being long and green and the grass snapped off when I walked through it. Took two trips. It was like 70 again two days later.
That was the mid Jan polar vortex in the East event if we're still talking 1985. DFW got to 10F and high of 22 but quickly rebounded, was 70s before it. Closing days of January and early Feb had the 2nd more west event occurred with big HP. DFW was below freezing 4-5 days and bottomed out at 7F.
Jan 1985 we had a pretty decent snow on New Years night, then it got warm, then crazy cold. That was about the time that SA had its big snow. Then more snow at the end of the month going into early Feb. That storm at the end of the month was really interesting. Initial forecasts were that it was going to be big, and then the day before the event everyone (NWS and local TV mets) backed way off and made it sound like we might just get some cold and no moisture. Even up until the night before there was not much consensus on what would happen. IIRC we went under a Traveler's Advisory (remember those? before Winter Weather Advisories existed) for freezing drizzle. Woke up the next morning to a solid coating of sleet followed by 2 days of really nice snow. That was a great storm - 2 days without school, cold enough to support snow and decent accumulations, roads were icy but not impassable, no power outages. Fun for all.
I think we even caught some slop on the back end of the system as well. Freezing rain that made everything a mess.