Texas Winter 2024-2025

[sphelps8681]

Was curious how you handle running a generator if it is snowing. Do place in place before snow starts? Do you elevate it so ventilation is there. Just not sure. Never had to do this for snow. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

[Tireman4]

NWS Austin/San Antonio overnight issued a Winter Storm Watch for parts of its CWA. Austin area included. Up to 2” of a wintry mix expected. Game on!

Sir, I think ( Houston/Galveston Metro) are going to get it. LOL Get yer snowplows ready!

You’re getting the ribeye but hey we’re getting a top sirloin at least!

Sir, yes sir. Also, go Browns!

[Tireman4]

Was curious how you handle running a generator if it is snowing. Do place in place before snow starts? Do you elevate it so ventilation is there. Just not sure. Never had to do this for snow. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Mine is a Generac Generator and it is covered, so I am not sure I can answer this.

[txtwister78]

Definitely not looking good for travel across the SA metro if the HRRR is accurate. Could be a disaster Monday night into Tuesday morning with that much freezing rain before things transition over.

[jasons2k]

I've seen '93 referenced a few times on here. This is obviously a different animal as that low was practically a hurricane plowing through the Gulf. This will be a strong storm but not quite like that one. That said, I hope I find myself in the sweet spot and witness something similar here, at least locally, just north of Houston.

Some little tidbits why the ‘93 "Superstorm" AKA "Storm of the Century" is so memorable for me:

- I left Texas for a year to start college in Alabama. I was at my grandparents’ in Birmingham for the storm. We got 16” of snow up on a ridge a few miles NE of the airport in Roebuck Springs. I witnessed thundersnow for the first time - at night - easily, easily the coolest weather phenomenon I’ve ever experienced. The sound -- the thunder makes this muffled, eerie, continuous low roar (unless it's close, then it sounds something like a crash of sheet metal flapping back and forth) and the lightning flashes look like blue daylight with everything glowing bright, and I mean everything, like you would see under a black light while tripping but with a more blue hue to it. It's hard to describe without something similar to compare it to, and it's very unique.
- The not fun part: No power for a week. Two weeks for phone and cable. Sleeping by the fireplace in sleeping bags. The National Guard was called-in to rescue people off the interstates as 18-wheelers were jackknifed and stuck for miles and miles. Carrot Top had all his props burn at a fire at the Improv. It was fun until it wasn’t.
- A week later, I drove back to Texas for Spring Break and the pine trees were still bent over all the way to Jackson.
- The storm was a forecast modeling and public messaging breakthrough. We all knew days in advance the storm was coming, it was the ‘big one’ and we were all prepared. Back in ‘93 this set a whole new benchmark and expectations for winter storm forecasts. This, coupled with the Andrew coverage by Brian Norcross and the team on TWC with a young & enthusiastic Jim Cantore and the trusted veteran John Hope -- you could call it a paradigm shift that you can't quite describe unless you were alive to witness it firsthand.
- It’s the first time I ever heard the term “explosive cyclogenisis”

[Wthrfan]

GFS, EC, and NBM are trending colder for Houston with no warm nose aloft - heavier snow Tuesday. Workers have abandoned my two walls and are fleeing for their lives!

What is the warm nose looking like for Angleton?

It's there at the start around 6pm tomorrow but gone after sunrise Tuesday. In all my 45 years in Houston, I've never seen such good support for heavy snow. That includes the 2004 Christmas miracle snow.

He states with tears rolling down his cheeks!

[TomballEd]

Is there any chance this ends up being similar to the March Superstorm of ‘93 for some in the Deep South and Gulf Coast? It reminds me so much of what I remember from back then, the only thing I see missing is the severe weather potential in Florida.

No. I was working that storm in '93. Nothing like it.

Yeah my friends back east are pretty upset the storm kind of falls apart

Total opposite of 93. Still the record holder over there in a lot of places

Houston into Louisiana may get more snow than anyone

As the then developing 93 Super Storm was heading E of Austin, impressive lightning developed just E of the city. A girl named Pilar was trying to teach me to two-step. Nothing as dynamic as thunderstorms over Texas fir this storm.

[Steve]

Here’s the GFS snowfalll totals. Notice that secondary heavy band from Panama City over to around Jacksonville.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysi ... 1912&fh=84

[Gotwood]

What is the warm nose looking like for Angleton?

It's there at the start around 6pm tomorrow but gone after sunrise Tuesday. In all my 45 years in Houston, I've never seen such good support for heavy snow. That includes the 2004 Christmas miracle snow.

He states with tears rolling down his cheeks!

I think even he can appreciate at good snow with no pipe/ grid issues.

[captainbarbossa19]

Man, I wish I could see this. I currently have class scheduled on Tuesday and it's not looking like we're going to see much in Starkville.

[TomballEd]

I like what the Reggie is showing, but we're near the edge of their grid. They are a model used by the Canadians. It scores coups in the NEUSA against US mesoscales, I'm not sure how well it would do down here.

[Ralph's Weather]

Along and south of I10 tomorrow night looks like rain turning to sleet then ending as snow during the morning hours. Along and north of 190 it should be all snow. The heavy stuff is in the morning after the transition is mostly done so snow could still accumulate significantly assuming the warm nose cools quick enough.

[Golfisnteasy7575]

Congrats on whoever gets snow in a few days. They are always winners and losers in these situations. Definitely a rare set up that one don't see often. Hopefully we will have a few more opportunities this winter for all of us

[Steve]

I like what the Reggie is showing, but we're near the edge of their grid. They are a model used by the Canadians. It scores coups in the NEUSA against US mesoscales, I'm not sure how well it would do down here.

It’s got the most snowfall. Bonkers for Texas

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysi ... 1912&fh=66

[Lagreeneyes03]

I like what the Reggie is showing, but we're near the edge of their grid. They are a model used by the Canadians. It scores coups in the NEUSA against US mesoscales, I'm not sure how well it would do down here.

It’s got the most snowfall. Bonkers for Texas

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysi ... 1912&fh=66

Can we trust it? That even gives the DFW metroplex something to play with probably a dry snow which would be good

[TomballEd]

Man, I wish I could see this. I currently have class scheduled on Tuesday and it's not looking like we're going to see much in Starkville.

Met major?

15-3 for the Bulldogs, they should be dancing in March, Texas is on the bubble. But we got lots of NIL money, they'll buy some talent and the Horns should be better '25-26. Far from Starkville but I had a summer internship in Laurel, MS. I found few of the negative stereotypes I'd heard in NY moving to Texas, but that year I found many of the bad stereotypes were true. But eating sweet onions as a desert after lunch was cool and Hattiesburg was a college town.

Anybody: Free image hosting site? I was using Giphy during hurricane season, now they want me to pay. I don't need to post gigs, just images.

[Brazoria_cnty99]

Along and south of I10 tomorrow night looks like rain turning to sleet then ending as snow during the morning hours. Along and north of 190 it should be all snow. The heavy stuff is in the morning after the transition is mostly done so snow could still accumulate significantly assuming the warm nose cools quick enough.

When do you think it will change to snow and how many hrs would we have of it?

[South Texas Storms]

I like what the Reggie is showing, but we're near the edge of their grid. They are a model used by the Canadians. It scores coups in the NEUSA against US mesoscales, I'm not sure how well it would do down here.

The RGEM is a good mesoscale model. I give it good weight when making a short-range forecast. Now I do think it's likely overdoing the snowfall totals across much of TX. But it does show where the heaviest amounts should occur.

[Ralph's Weather]

I like what the Reggie is showing, but we're near the edge of their grid. They are a model used by the Canadians. It scores coups in the NEUSA against US mesoscales, I'm not sure how well it would do down here.

It’s got the most snowfall. Bonkers for Texas

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysi ... 1912&fh=66

Can we trust it? That even gives the DFW metroplex something to play with probably a dry snow which would be good

Canadian may be over done but per hi res models further east on I 20 could get a few inches. I bet DFW gets some snow showers out of this and if they do then up to an inch of powder is possible. That can happen in 30 minutes in this environment with ratios on I20 over 15:1.

[Steve]

I like what the Reggie is showing, but we're near the edge of their grid. They are a model used by the Canadians. It scores coups in the NEUSA against US mesoscales, I'm not sure how well it would do down here.

It’s got the most snowfall. Bonkers for Texas

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysi ... 1912&fh=66

Can we trust it? That even gives the DFW metroplex something to play with probably a dry snow which would be good

I don’t know. Living near the Gulf of Mexico I don’t have a lot of opportunities to judge models on winter precipitation output. Canadian usually isn’t the best for hurricanes (gulf of Mexico lows themselves). I’d bet it’s most likely the upper end of the possibilities.