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by Belmer
Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:20 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: MARCH 2021
Replies: 113
Views: 43919

Re: MARCH 2021

The WMO (World Meteorological Organization) Hurricane Committee has retired Dorian from 2019 and Laura, Eta and Iota (2020) from the rotating list of Atlantic names due to the damage and death associated with them. Also interesting of note in the article, "It also decided that the Greek alphabe...
by Belmer
Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:32 am
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Finally getting a transition to more snow than sleet here in Katy.

Also have been without power now for 2 hours. Went out right at 2:15am. Temp inside is 60° and outside temp is 15°.
by Belmer
Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:50 am
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Judging by the correlation coefficient on radarscope, looks like everything to the left of the blue line is all snow. I feel confident this will all end in snow and give at least most of us an inch. I agree though, 19° here with heavy sleet is quite annoying.

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by Belmer
Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:19 am
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Sky lit up in blue as a transformer blew and power went out across the street from me. Highway 99 pitch black and all the stores along the feeder. Wind is howling through my doors and windows are just getting pelted with sleet. If I was in a coma and I was just waking up in my bed, I'd think it was ...
by Belmer
Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:35 am
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Not snowing here in Katy, yet. But absolutely coming down in sheets with sleet. By far the heaviest sleet I've ever seen. Had a heavy sleet event in Oklahoma when I lived up there back in 2013, but nothing like this.
by Belmer
Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:43 am
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Fascinating to watch the snow wall out west heading in our direction. What I have circled in blue under the mesoscale discussion is what I'm watching. Currently all snow and will be interesting to see if the intensity of it holds as it pushes ENE. If you have radarscope, you can play it from the KEW...
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:48 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Incredible image from TXDOT in San Antonio of I-10.

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by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:53 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Austin has quickly fallen into teens and CLL is nearing 20°. Temps will rapidly fall tonight as the trough moves through around 2am here in SETX. This is going to be a one-two punch as the heaviest sleet/snow will begin falling between 2-6am.
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:16 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

The transition from pink to the gray/bluish (wind chill warnings) will begin encompassing much of TX next 24 hours. Technically much of the warnings are already there, but winter storm warnings are overshadowing them right now. Two rare warnings to see from the northern to southern border. www.png
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 6:34 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Reports that the Grand Parkway is closed at Katy Freeway because of ice on the road. I can see 99 & I-10 out from my balcony and there are emergency lights along 99. It looks like they have the flyovers closed and not the freeway itself since I can still see cars traveling both north and southbo...
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:53 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Been raining off and on for the last few hours and now lightly sleeting. All the trees and vegetation are becoming very stiff with a thin glaze of ice forming on them. You can hear the icy noise in the wind when the branches are hitting one another. I'm right off of I-10 & 99 in Katy and right a...
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:20 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Is it just me or does it look like the system out near Dallas looks like it's hauling butt down here faster that forecast? Is that our system or is it the low out in New Mexico spinning? Our main energy will be coming out of Mexico as large scale lift from the trough and the developing surface coas...
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:03 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

What time is the main player suppose to push through? FZRA and sleet will continue off and on across the region through midnight. Sometime after midnight precip should begin transitioning to snow from west to east and be moving out of our region around mid morning. If you're wanting to catch some s...
by Belmer
Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:00 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Winter Storm Warning ⚠️

Center Point Energy beginning to report power outage where the freezing rain has been occurring. Look for coverage to expand as freezing rain begins to fill in more over into Houston this evening. You can follow updates here: https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us/residential/services/electric-util...
by Belmer
Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:18 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021

00z Icon, Canadian and GFS are just absolutely bonkers. Talk about consistency in the short-medium range with such extreme temps/snow/ice. Heck, CMC says let's keep the party going into next Wednesday and Thursday. I know the idea of this may be exciting for those who like to see the extremes, but t...
by Belmer
Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:14 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021

How much snow is the 18z GFS depicting for the city of Houston on Monday? Oh, boy. Be careful with that map. That wouldn't be snow as that indicates. GFS shows a warm nose from 900 to ~700mb during the passage of that shortwave on Monday. Which any precip falling would be sleet/freezing rain as the...
by Belmer
Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:05 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021

The Houston nws office has always been anti cold and anti frozen precip. They wont admit to it until it actually happens. Watch,, a winter storm watch will be needed and they will hold,hold,hold, off until the very last possible second. That's not how they work at all. I know a few of the forecaste...
by Belmer
Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:38 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins
Replies: 2374
Views: 700908

Re: February 2021

I think the ridging over the pacific may be too flat.As there is a lack of blocking over Alaska. That is partly correct, yes. I'm not going to be able to post for a little while as I have a busy schedule coming up. So thought I would post some pretty pictures to maybe help explain what the GFS is s...
by Belmer
Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:51 pm
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: January 2021
Replies: 809
Views: 240101

Re: January 2021

Be aware of a possibility of Freezing Fog tomorrow morning mainly N of I-10. If it develops, travel troubles particularly on elevated roads could be an issue. I dont believe I've ever dealt with freezing fog down here. Although the air is the cold, is it just because the ground is saturated with sl...
by Belmer
Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:21 am
Forum: Weather Forum
Topic: January 2021
Replies: 809
Views: 240101

Re: January 2021

Next Sunday looks very similar to this storm. We’ll see what happens. I think this one was a huge let down across the board. The GFS and Euro definitely scored big. One thing that surprised me is at my house it went from rain, to all sleet to all snow for 5 minutes and then back to rain and stayed ...