Historic TX Snowstorm

#1 Postby **jeff** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:53 am

Incredible snow totals coming in from around SE TX, coastal bend, and S TX.

1-3 inches across Jackson, matagorda, Brazoria, and Galveston counties. 3-5 inches over Wharton and SW Fort Bend County.

4-8 inches around Victoria and W of Victoria.

Many highways are snow packed and nearly impassable. Do not go out and get stuck.

We see totals appraoch 1 foot in the training heavy snow bands.

Just incredible. A Historic storm no question.

air360 · #2 Postby **air360** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:10 am

its truely amazing....People down there really deserved this one! This will be a Christmas which many young kids will remember years and years from now! Now what would just make this whole story a whole lot better is if that snow got dragged all the way up the South East and on up here to Eastern NC and dumped a good bit (while of course dumping the whole time its working its way up here)

JenyEliza · #3 Postby **JenyEliza** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:17 am

IT'S OFFICIAL....S and SE Texas have a WHITE CHRISTMAS!!

ENJOY, Texans. Ya'll never do ANYTHING small, do ya? :cheesy:

Jeny

air360 · #4 Postby **air360** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:19 am

ENJOY, Texans. Ya'll never do ANYTHING small, do ya?

HAHA ...that was good Jeny

cctxhurricanewatcher · #5 Postby **cctxhurricanewatcher** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:41 am

We are enjoying it. My kids never looked so thrilled in their young lives. I guess that means we cancel our trip to Colorado in a couple of years for sking so they could see some snow. Not!!! :lol:

#6 Postby **vbhoutex** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 1:58 am

I may be up all night watching this unfold!!! I just did not want to believe what the radar kept telling me-that the low was rapidly developing and developing well North of where it was expected. Now we could see even more snow than I expected(up to 4"). It truly is historic and incredible, even if we get no more snow here in Houston tonight.(I only have to look at the radar to know what the answer to that is.) Camera has a fresh battery in it and I will be taking pictures!!

cctxhurricanewatcher · #7 Postby **cctxhurricanewatcher** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:31 am

I can't wait to see the snow depth chart for South Texas tomorrow. I'll archive that on my hard drive and CD for keeps.

Stratosphere747 · #8 Postby **Stratosphere747** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:49 am

Special Weather Statement
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
115 AM CST SAT DEC 25 2004

TXZ229>234-239>247-250900-
ARANSAS-BEE-CALHOUN-DUVAL-GOLIAD-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-LASALLE-LIVE OAK-
MCMULLEN-NUECES-REFUGIO-SAN PATRICIO-VICTORIA-WEBB-
115 AM CST SAT DEC 25 2004

...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW SPREADING ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND NORTH
INTO THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS REGION WITH HEAVY ACCUMULATIONS
EXPECTED...

...WINTER STORM WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE COASTAL BEND AND
EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS...

WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY SNOW WILL CONTINUE
SPREADING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE ENTIRE COASTAL BEND FROM KLEBERG
AND NUECES COUNTIES NORTHEAST THROUGH REFUGIO COUNTY INTO
THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS REGION THROUGH 3 AM. ADDITIONAL SNOW
ACCUMULATIONS OF 2-3 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE EAST OF
A LINE FROM PREMONT TO MATHIS TO GOLIAD THROUGH 3 AM.

AT 100 AM...SNOW FALL ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS THE REGION RANGED
FROM 3 TO 5 INCHES ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES WITH 6 TO 10
INCHES ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS NEAR SAN DIEGO TO TILDEN
AND NORTHEAST TO GOLIAD AND VICTORIA.

SNOW IS TAPERING OFF TO FLURRIES OVER THE WESTERN RIO GRANDE
PLAINS. SNOW WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH OVER THE REST OF THE RIO
GRANDE PLAINS AFTER 2 AM...BUT THE SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH
AROUND 8 AM ACROSS EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COASTAL BEND.

BEFORE THE SNOW ENDS...ACCUMULATIONS OVERNIGHT WILL APPROACH 4
TO 7 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN COASTAL BEND WITH
8 TO 12 INCH TOTALS EXPECTED FOR NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE COASTAL
BEND FROM GEORGE WEST TO VICTORIA. SNOW DRIFTS MAY EVEN APPROACH
18 INCHES TO 2 FEET IN THE VICTORIA CROSSROADS.

ALL ROADWAYS ARE SNOW AND ICE COVERED ACROSS THE REGION. LAW
ENFORCEMENT HAS REPORTED MANY ACCIDENTS ACROSS THE REGION AND
TRAVEL ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND AND RIO GRANDE PLAINS FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED AS THE SLEET AND
SNOWFALL LAST WELL INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS DEVELOPING
WINTER WEATHER SITUATION.

Almost 1ft of snow...This is Southern Texas...And still snowing, plus "Snow drifts" up to 2ft!!! Crazy stuff..

JenyEliza · #9 Postby **JenyEliza** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:52 am

air360 wrote:
ENJOY, Texans. Ya'll never do ANYTHING small, do ya?

HAHA ...that was good Jeny

It's TRUE.

EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas. Including their sleet-showers. :cheesy:

Anonymous · #10 Postby **Anonymous** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 12:41 pm

Truly amazing to say the least ! I spent some time in Corpus Christi in 2002 and this is supposed to be the tropical paradise gettaway for northerners to escape ANY snow.

This is the same as saying that 10" of snow fell in New Delhi,India - or places like Libya, Egypt or Saudi Arabia !

Another interesting fact is that the snow in Victoria beats their old record by 100 fold. Previous was .1" in 1973 and 1918.

That goes without saying that if a similar storm here in Charleston,SC had dumped 100X as much snow as the previous record of 8", we'd see 66 feet of snow on the ground.

Or Buffalo's snow of 7' in 2001 Dec would mean 700 feet of snow.

Tornado_Chaser2005 · #11 Postby **Tornado_Chaser2005** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:24 pm

How often does Southern TX get this much snow? Global Warming have anything to do with it???? Day after tomorrow?

Website · #12 Postby **Brent** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:25 pm

Tornado_Chaser2005 wrote:How often does Southern TX get this much snow? Global Warming have anything to do with it???? Day after tomorrow?

It had been 109 years since Brownsville had measurable snow(1895) before yesterday.

Tornado_Chaser2005 · #13 Postby **Tornado_Chaser2005** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:31 pm

oh my, so does this mean the climate could be taking a change? I mean I saw snow here in Valley southern california 3 weeks back, and might see it again this week based on the model runs. The Santa Ana Wind events are more powerful, also more frequent, along with the storms. something is different in the atmosphere I can see, but not sure why.

Anonymous · #14 Postby **Anonymous** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:33 pm

Won't even get into it, but any snow falling as far south as Brownsville, or record snows over a foot in Victoria,TX, or the 3 feet of snow which reportedly fell in Athens, Greece in 2001/02 winter, or the 30 feet of snow in winter 2002/03 in Newfoundland sure is no sign of global warming. That's called global cooling.

Tornado_Chaser2005 · #15 Postby **Tornado_Chaser2005** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:27 pm

Well not Global Warming maybe, but a climate shift maybe??Like something is happening with our climate? Well Global warming I guess happens wwhen artic ice melts and falls in the ocean, making the surface of the water cooler?? This would explain the colder storms as well.

Anonymous · #16 Postby **Anonymous** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:11 pm

Actually even the National Geographic mentioned that the arctic has cooled since 1940, according to a large body of experts. With cooling, they mentioned, the fluctuations of the seasons extend further south. You also see a greater north/south swing of the jet-stream and greater extremes in weather. This was very well documented in their 1976/77 issue on the topic "the year the weather went wild". Further, there really is no melting anywhere in both the Arctic or Antarctic especially. That's just media misinterpretation. Locally or regionally, there can be breakups and re-freezing of the ice in different locations. It's an ongoing cycle. Satellite data has actually shown a growth of the Greenland Ice Sheet in recent decades. Overall ice cover is actually increasing in the Antarctica especially. NASA came out with data last year showing that sea ice seasons there have lengthened by 1 day per year since 1979. There are reports of falling sea levels in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean since the mid 1980's, as well as Australia and Sweden.

In winter 2002/03, snow cover in the northern hemisphere was at it's greatest extent (39.3 million km2) since record keeping began.

A few more facts:

Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich. (From 1926 to 1960, some 70-95% of these glaciers were in retreat.)

• A comparison of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 1965 and 1990 Plant Hardiness Zone Maps, shows a southward change of one zone, or 10°F, between 1965 and 1990.

• Careful measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in German oaks, which are rigorously calibrated to temperature data, show a 1°C temperature decline from 1350 to 1800 (the lowpoint of the Little Ice Age). Temperature thereafter increased by 1°C from 1800 to 1930, and has been DECLING since then.

• From weather stations in the Alps, and in the Nordic countries, we find the temperature decline since 1930 is also 1°C.

• Satellite measurements have shown growth in the height and breadth of the huge Greenland ice sheet, the largest in the Northern Hemisphere

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