December 2022

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I'm expecting a Blue Norther next week, one model showed 50s and sunny skies to Below Zero and snow in just 12 hours! :shock:
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Sleet falling outside Longview. Came to visit the parents and got a surprise
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MontgomeryCoWx wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:51 pm Sleet falling outside Longview. Came to visit the parents and got a surprise
73° here in Wharton. Huge temp gradient across the state.
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Now moderate sleet shower here. Wow
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MontgomeryCoWx wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:14 pm Now moderate sleet shower here. Wow
Harbinger of things to come?
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They can’t even get today’s weather correctly. We are screwed next week.
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tireman4 wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:27 pm
MontgomeryCoWx wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:14 pm Now moderate sleet shower here. Wow
Harbinger of things to come?
I’m hoping.

Man, that was a 45 minute sleet shower. Very cool to play Football in.
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No snow for you on the latest GFS run. lol Live and Die.
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We knew the snow was going to disappear
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brazoriatx wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:03 pm We knew the snow was going to disappear
I’m not worried about that. The GFS is actually looking better for us overall the past few runs. A few more shifts and we could be in the ballgame. Plenty of time.
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tireman4 wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:09 pm Remember, do not live and die on every single model run. The trend is your friend. Plus, this far out, it always loses either cold air, precipitation. 4 to 5 days out is when the models really start honing in on a particular evemt.
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Their is still a lot of time for things to change lol, the GFS is known for showing something exciting, then dropping it, only to bring it back again once we get into the short range , the trough position is getting better by each run and that is a good thing, plus the mesocale models might do a better job of sniffing out any sort of disturbance that moves in behind the Siberian airmass in. place once they get into range
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There was only a 20 percent chance of light rain today and it sure looks like way more than that around. It really came down in that line. Did a model catch this for today?
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Time to start monitoring our source region in Yukon (NW Canada) to see just how cold it gets up there.
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Yep, plenty of time to watch the models progress as we move through the weekend but its time to start thinking about freeze preps especially if you will be traveling away from home next week for Christmas weekend.
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How many hours each night should we be at freezing or below? Guesstimate 👍
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sambucol most of SE Texas will probably be at or below freezing for at least 1 day and possibly 2
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I’m thinking 4-5 overnight freezes and potentially 48-60 hours below
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Just David Paul. Well caught the middle. 🤦‍♀️
Coldest seems to be Friday night or morning.
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Cpv17 wrote: Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:45 pm
Ptarmigan wrote: Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:00 pm Coldest Christmas Days recorded in Houston.
https://www.weather.gov/hgx/climate_hol ... %20degrees.

11°F 1983
20°F 1989
26°F 1990
27°F 1924
29°F 1985

If we go by the forecast, it could tie with 1924, 1985, and 1990.

There was freezing rain in December 1924 and 1990.

Historical Annotated Review Of Winter Kills Of Marine organisms In Texas Bays
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwd ... MDS118.pdf

Southeast Texas has Rough Winters too! (January 2013)
https://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/6986.asp

Climatic Guide for Houston-Galveston, Texas Area
https://books.google.com/books?id=56lhL ... on&f=false
I didn’t realize 1983 got that cold. I always thought it was just a long duration freeze but nothing extreme like that.
1983 was quite cold. It set many records.
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