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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1941 Postby Ntxw » Wed Jan 14, 2026 8:43 pm

40/35 was the coldest day of winter was in December (1st of the month wow!) for DFW. Not sure the highs on Saturday will top but the low temp should. So technically this would be the coldest air mass, to date, for the season...bar is not high. We take.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1942 Postby wxman57 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 9:32 pm

Looking at the 12Z and 18Z GFS & Euro, y'all may need to head to the Florida Panhandle if you want to see some snow on Sunday.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1943 Postby Brent » Wed Jan 14, 2026 9:55 pm

Seriously what are the odds that happens again in Florida? I can't imagine it has in back to back years

People here still talking about around the 25th
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1944 Postby wxman22 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:07 pm

The weekend system on the 0z GFS :spam:

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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1945 Postby Stratton23 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:10 pm

Very interesting, especially since this is 72 hours out, surprising to be honest
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1946 Postby Ntxw » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:11 pm

Stratton23 wrote:Very interesting, especially since this is 72 hours out, surprising to be honest


5h continues to improve, as long as that happens moisture may find it.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1947 Postby HockeyTx82 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:16 pm

So wait, it might snow here this weekend......

I step away for 3 hours and look what happens.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1948 Postby Ntxw » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:19 pm

HockeyTx82 wrote:So wait, it might snow here this weekend......

I step away for 3 hours and look what happens.


2 days from now. Inching closer, pun intended.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1949 Postby Stratton23 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:22 pm

Snow way this happens right?
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1950 Postby Cpv17 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:28 pm

HockeyTx82 wrote:So wait, it might snow here this weekend......

I step away for 3 hours and look what happens.


And yet, we’re trying to look at operationals for precip 10+ days out. Hell, they can’t even get it right inside of a few days.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1951 Postby wxman22 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:28 pm

It will be interesting to see what the HRRR and WRF models show once in range.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1952 Postby txtwister78 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:52 pm

If it wasn't coming from the GFS I'd be a little more inclined to buy in but there has been some shifts west obviously in time now regarding the trough however being it's still positively tilted when it moves down into Texas so I wouldn't expect much in the way of moisture until it taps into the gulf and you get that sw flow (negatively titled trough transition) across the SE

This may end up being a scenario where the further south you are the better your odds are should other models fall in line.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1953 Postby Harp.1 » Wed Jan 14, 2026 11:54 pm

Yeah, but it's hard to ignore the consistency of the last three runs
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1954 Postby Stratton23 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:08 am

SREF modes are very aggressive
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1955 Postby txtwister78 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:10 am

Harp.1 wrote:Yeah, but it's hard to ignore the consistency of the last three runs


For areas across the SE yes.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1956 Postby Harp.1 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:19 am

Interestingly enough, the high res models aren't showing this unless I'm missing something.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1957 Postby Stratton23 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:22 am

most high res models arent in range of this yet
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1958 Postby Harp.1 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:24 am

Stratton23 wrote:most high res models arent in range of this yet

The NAM and the RGEM are.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1959 Postby Cpv17 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:25 am

Harp.1 wrote:
Stratton23 wrote:most high res models arent in range of this yet

The NAM and the RGEM are.


Those are atrocious.
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Re: Texas Winter 2025-2026

#1960 Postby Stratton23 » Thu Jan 15, 2026 12:28 am

Cpv17 yeah, for this potential event, the HRRR will probably be the best one to follow
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