January-Foggy Mornings/Cool & Cloudy To The Month

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BlueJay
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YUCK! Today's weather is a winter mess!
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Three words: Cold. Miserable. Wet.

I've had a high of 37. A steady 36 the last few hours with the rain. Spring cannot get here fast enough. I want to see the sun again and wear T-shirts outside. I would love a nice long stretch of 50's (lows) - 70's (highs) weather until April/May.

Srain enjoy your visit. I would love to be in the NM mountains. I can deal with that kind of "cold".

A coworker spent the holidays in Denver. We all know the air temp up there was brutal...but he said it felt colder in Houston than up in Denver because of the sun and dry air up there.
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Looks to be an interesting overnight period in the Austin area:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
405 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2015

...ANOTHER POLAR AIRMASS AND UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT TO PROMOTE WINTER
TYPE PRECIPITATION ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

.A COLD AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
THIS EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM ACROSS NORTHEAST MEXICO IS
FORECAST TO PUSH NORTHEAST ACROSS WEST TEXAS TONIGHT AND INTO
CENTRAL TEXAS BY SATURDAY. WITH A COLD AIRMASS CONTINUING OVER
THE SURFACE AND UPPER SUPPORT FROM ALOFT...SEVERAL ROUNDS OF
PRECIPITATION ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY. AS
TEMPERATURES DROP TO THE FREEZING MARK...WINTER TYPE PRECIPITATION
IS EXPECTED IN THE FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET FORM. LIGHT
ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED MAINLY ACROSS ELEVATED SURFACES...
BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE
ABOVE FREEZING SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>208-101215-
/O.NEW.KEWX.WW.Y.0001.150110T0000Z-150110T1800Z/
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-
GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN...DEL RIO...
ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY...KERRVILLE...BANDERA...FREDERICKSBURG...
BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...
BRACKETTVILLE...UVALDE...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS...
SEGUIN...LOCKHART
405 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2015

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST SATURDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A DEL RIO TO
SAN ANTONIO TO BASTROP LINE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS
EVENING THROUGH NOON CST SATURDAY.

* TIMING...FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH 12 PM SATURDAY.

* MAIN IMPACT...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN MAY ACCUMULATE ON MANY
ELEVATED SURFACES AND ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY BRIDGES AND
OVERPASSES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN RIO GRANDE PLAINS/EDWARDS
PLATEAU...HILL COUNTRY AND AREAS ALONG INTERSTATE 35 INCLUDING
THE AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN AREAS AND MAKE TRAVEL
DANGEROUS. EVEN SOME NON-ELEVATED ROADWAYS MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE
SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS DUE TO THE PROLONGED COLD TEMPERATURES
A SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES OF FREEZING RAIN/SLEET LATE TONIGHT AND
SATURDAY MORNING.

* OTHER IMPACTS...TOTAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL AVERAGE FROM A
TRACE TO FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH. HOWEVER...THERE MAY BE BANDS
OF FREEZING RAIN/SLEET PRODUCING SLIGHTLY HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS
TO ONE TENTH OF AN INCH ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN HILL COUNTRY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...SLEET...OR
FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR
SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
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36 already
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35 in katy?
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35 here in baytown at my house
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Up here in south Dallas (inside-joke... for the benefit of a former member "ed" who would respond immediately were in not for that straight jacket -thingy), it would appear that tomorrow morning will be prime time for our winter weather shenanigans.

I don't expect anything major... but it wouldn't surprise me to find my patio table to be a totally treacherous hockey rink in the morning. :D

For all of you heading up here for the BBQ tomorrow... let's hold off for now; it could be slippery.

We can reschedule for SuperBowl weekend... ;)
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I just told our kid tonight "no, you can't drive my car to Dallas for the weekend" ;)

but at the moment, here farther SE, it feels warmer & the freeze line looks farther north than it has as of late

to steal a line from Martha "that's a good thing" :)

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Bedias probably qualifies as the exoburbs, as Brooks calls it.

Still sitting at 35F.
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Cold Winter weather continues across SE TX as well as all of TX this evening. A rare Wind Chill Advisory has been issued for deep South TX as wind chills will fall between 23F and 30F. Brownsville, TX will have a low in the mid 30s tonight. Freezing rain threat still remains well to the N and W of Houston metro. Central TX NW of San Antonio and Austin will likely see the most Winter precip over the next 24 hours. Kerrville and Fredericksburg already have some icing ongoing as a Winter Storm Warning has just been issued for those areas. Time to hibernate. Stay warm my SE TX friends.
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Heck of mess developing across the Hill Country. Stay Tuned folks.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
920 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2015

...SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE LIKELY OVER THE HILL COUNTRY
AND SOUTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY...

.SHALLOW ARCTIC AIR OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WILL CONTINUE TO COOL
TEMPERATURES...WITH MOST AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BALCONES
ESCARPMENT EXPECTED TO REACH TO NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING BY
MIDNIGHT. AREAS OF PATCHY LIGHT RAIN AND DRIZZLE WILL INCREASE
INTO RAIN SHOWERS MIXED WITH SLEET SHOWERS LATE TONIGHT. LIGHT ICE
ACCUMULATIONS ARE ALREADY OCCURRING OVER THE HILL COUNTRY...AND
THE EARLY ONSET OF FREEZING CONDITIONS WILL ENABLE SEVERAL HOURS
OF POTENTIAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS. MOST ICE ACCUMULATIONS SHOULD FALL
INTO A RANGE FROM 1/10 TO 1/4 INCH. HOWEVER...BANDS OF SLEET
SHOWERS COULD SUPPORT ISOLATED HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 1/2
INCH.

ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN HILL COUNTRY...TEMPERATURES MAY
NOT REACH ABOVE FREEZING OR LONG ENOUGH TO MELT THE ACCUMULATED
ICE. THUS THE THREAT FOR ICY ROADS COULD EXTEND INTO SATURDAY
EVENING. FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST...AREAS FROM DEL RIO TO SAN
ANTONIO TO AUSTIN MAY EXPERIENCE A SHORTER FREEZING PERIOD...WITH
IMPROVING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

WILLIAMSON-HAYS-TRAVIS-KINNEY-UVALDE-MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...
BRACKETTVILLE...UVALDE...HONDO...SAN ANTONIO...NEW BRAUNFELS
920 PM CST FRI JAN 9 2015

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY
NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WARNING FOR COUNTIES ALONG AND NORTH OF THE BALCONES
ESCARPMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY
NIGHT. THE WINTER STORM WARNING NOW INCLUDES THE METRO CITIES OF
AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO.

* TIMING...THROUGH 12 PM CST SATURDAY.

* MAIN IMPACT...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET MAY ACCUMULATE ON
ROAD SURFACES...IN ADDITION TO BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. AREAS
ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM DEL RIO TO HONDO TO SELMA TO
PFLUGERVILLE CAN EXPECT ICING TO DEVELOP ON MANY SOLID ROAD
SURFACES...WHILE AREAS TO THE SOUTH AND EAST ARE EXPECTED TO SEE
ONLY LIGHT ICING ON ELEVATED SURFACES SUCH AS BRIDGES AND
OVERPASSES. TOTAL ICE ACCUMULATIONS NORTH OF THE ESCARPMENT ARE
EXPECTED TO AVERAGE BETWEEN 1/10 AND 1/4 INCH. HOWEVER...BANDS
OF SLEET COULD SUPPORT SLIGHTLY HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 1/2
INCH.

* OTHER IMPACTS...THE COLD TEMPERATURES AND EXPECTED ICE
ACCUMULATIONS COULD PREVENT TEMPERATURES FROM REACHING ABOVE
FREEZING UNTIL LATE SATURDAY EVENING. IMPROVING CONDITIONS ARE
POSSIBLE BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON OVER AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF
HIGHWAY 90 AND ALONG AND EAST OF I-35.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW...SLEET...
FREEZING RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS
WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE TRAVEL PROBLEMS AND MAY POSE A THREAT TO
LIFE AND PROPERTY.

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Radar showing snow northwest of corpus(above freezing)
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skidog40 wrote:Radar showing snow northwest of corpus(above freezing)
And they are reporting light snow/mist.
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srainhoutx enjoy your well deserved vacation.You will be missed,but the forum will be in good hands with our great amateurs and pro-mets.Port and the rest of us will make sure the models show a snow storm for all of Texas on your first week back. :)
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I appreciate all the good wishes for my vacation. Looks like I'll be arriving just in time for a potentially powerful Winter Storm across New Mexico. The Sangre de Christo Mountains of Northern New Mexico may receive well over a foot of new snow between Monday night into Wednesday. I'll post pictures if the connectivity works way up at 9500 ft. :)
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Is there anything else worth noting to watch in the next couple of weeks?
No rain, no rainbows.
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cisa wrote:Is there anything else worth noting to watch in the next couple of weeks?
More of the same it looks like. A rollercoaster with warmer days mixed in between cold fronts.
Nothing crazy on the horizon, but models can't be trusted after 5-7 days. Stay tuned :D
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http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=0

made my heart skip a beat...

"SUNSHINE...YES SUNSHINE...IS EXPECTED TO RETURN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH ONLY SOME CIRRUS IN PLACE. A SLOW BUT STEADY WARM UP SHOULD BEGIN ON THURSDAY WITH TEMPS WARMING TO NEAR 70 BY NEXT SUNDAY."
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Heavy rains this morning across central portions of SE TX as well as the coastal areas.

FLOOD ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
838 AM CST SUN JAN 11 2015

TXC039-157-201-111645-
/O.NEW.KHGX.FA.Y.0001.150111T1438Z-150111T1645Z/
/00000.N.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
HARRIS TX-BRAZORIA TX-FORT BEND TX-
838 AM CST SUN JAN 11 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEAGUE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...
HARRIS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
NORTHERN BRAZORIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...
EASTERN FORT BEND COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1045 AM CST

* AT 837 AM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN THAT WILL CAUSE
MINOR FLOODING IN THE ADVISORY AREA. UP TO ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
NORTHWESTERN PASADENA...NORTHWESTERN PEARLAND...NORTHWESTERN
BAYTOWN...NORTHERN MISSOURI CITY...DEER PARK...STAFFORD...SOUTH
HOUSTON...BELLAIRE...WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE...GALENA PARK...JACINTO
CITY...ASTRODOME AREA...GREATER FIFTH WARD...FOURTH WARD...NEARTOWN
/ MONTROSE...SECOND WARD...GREATER EASTWOOD...GREATER HOBBY AREA...
DOWNTOWN HOUSTON AND CHANNELVIEW.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE.
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Bon Voyage srain! Stay warm and come home safely.

We will try to keep calm and carry on even without you!
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