Happy New Year to everyone here and thanks for opening your tent to us south central Texas folks!

This is the finest local wx forum online IMHO.

Concern increasing here in south central Texas as well about a possible severe weather event late Sunday into early Monday.

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As usual, a lot of great information here. Thanks srainhoutx!

Interesting comments this afternoon out of the NWS office in New Braunfels, re: next week, precip types, etc.: On Wednesday, things will begin to quickly change as arctic air once again pours into the southern plains. This has been a pretty typical La Nina winter so far for South-Central Texas with ...

The cold air is coming and the question now is HOW cold ... and for us in south central and southeast Texas, more questions on precip and precip types. At the least, plants/pipes/pets/people protection in about a week's time appears to be on the menu.

The unseasonable warmth continues. Here in Austin we've blown today's record high of 77 out of the water. It's 84 at the airport and 79 at Camp Mabry at 2 pm. Temps may go higher. This will be the second day in the last week where we've set new record high temps.

Now this is what I call a nice Snow Map! LOL.

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Next week is shaping up to be fascinating and a great opportunity for many of us to learn more about weather in Texas, namely winter weather. We're going to have an Arctic airmass oozing southward into the state in what will probably be a shallow layer. As some have said in this forum in the last fe...

Set new record high temps today in Austin with 84 at Camp Mabry and 85 at the airport. The unseasonable warmth continues unfortunately.

Yesterday was the warmest Christmas Day in Austin since 1964. We topped out at 80 degrees. This morning we tied a record from last year for warmest minimum temp at Camp Mabry (KATT) at 70 degrees. I'm getting tired of these WARM weather benchmarks.

Starting the thread ... the talk of a January 2007 analog is exciting. For us in Austin, we experienced a multi-day winter weather event with sleet and freezing rain which pretty much shut down the city for two days. In fact, we had 80 consecutive hours of at or below freezing during that event. And...

Bottomed out at 24 degrees this morning here. Coldest in several years.

Have 26 degrees with a wind chill of 15 degrees here in SW Austin. Downright frigid! Coldest airmass in two years.

Temps here in Travis County have dropped about 30 degrees in 2 hours. Front came through 645-715 pm

Anticipating fropa here in the Austin area around 9 pm tonight. Going to spend today finishing outdoor preps for the hard freeze.

Quick question: I'm told sago palms are good unless temps get below 20 degrees. True?

Looks like the Arctic front will move through the Austin area Sat night around 9 or 10 pm. Then we'll see three consecutive freezing nights including a hard freeze Sun night/Mon morn. Coldest airmass in two years!

Cool, raw day here in south central Texas. Forecasted highs were mid 50s but we barely hit 50 at 2 p.m. Thick cloud cover holding strong like yesterday. Has that "winter" feel to it.

Mrs. Portastorm's work is having their holiday party Sunday evening here in Austin at the Trail of Lights ... where expected temps will be at or slightly below freezing with wind chills in the upper teens or low 20s.

That's one party I am NOT looking forward to.

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Looks like a long night ahead for us in the I-35 corridor Austin/San Antonio. We're looking at the likelihood of 6-8" of rain with as much as 15" possible in isolated spots. This on already saturated ground. Very sobering language coming out of the EWX office as well as NOAA's WPC excessiv...