It's all in the depth of the cold that comes down. With severe arctic outbreaks around here the cold air is usually shallow, thus we get freezing rain or sleet. I remember 83 and the extreme cold, but I don't recall seeing one snow flake. It was just miserably cold and things froze that I had never witnessed freezing in my 15 years of life. This article has some pretty interesting facts about the notable cold outbreaks we've had and the precip that came along with each event. It explains the depth of the cold air above us at different levels of the atmosphere. We got snow last week because the cold dome above us was deep and freezing. That's why WXman was so sure it was going to snow because I believe they were able to test the air above and saw that the air was colder above us than the surface. It's also why when the snow started it dropped those temps from I believe around 40ish around my area to about 34 to 32 degrees. Anyone wanting another 83 event around here probably wasn't around to witness the extreme devastation that event caused. Not only to homes, but to the marine life in and around the Texas coast for many years after. It's interesting and different, but believe me we don't want another 83.snowman65 wrote:Looking back to page 1 of this thread, srain posted a similar graphic about 7 days prior to last weeks snow event. How does it compare (or can it?) to this graphic 7 days out from the possible Christmas pattern?
Indeed - I was in Tampa in '83 and Dallas in '89. In '89, my grandparents (who lived here in Spring) spent the holidays with us. When they got home, their house was flooded from busted pipes.Heat Miser wrote: Anyone wanting another 83 event around here probably wasn't around to witness the extreme devastation that event caused. Not only to homes, but to the marine life in and around the Texas coast for many years after. It's interesting and different, but believe me we don't want another 83.
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Indeed. Forecasted to be around 34 last night, and we saw 30. I always plan for at least 2 dog colder than forecasted, and if the wind speed is low, or calm, then even lower. This winter is turning out to be a real sucky one already.redneckweather wrote:I would look for those temps to be much colder if an arctic HP of that size comes roaring down the lee side of the Rockies. Just this morning, I had 28 degrees at my house with ice over everything and that was with yesterday's frontal passage. It seems like just about every cold front this season has been colder than what was forecasted a few days in advance.
Thanks for the reply, Srain! I think my grandson might have a "holly hedge hunt-for-the-hose-bib" game in his near future!srainhoutx wrote:
Responding to TxLady about your exterior hose bibs. It is always wise to plan to cover and protect those each year. Last December we had a surprise hard freeze when the forecast lows were the mid 20's and I ended up with 19F which wreaked havoc on outdoor irrigation systems and exposed water lines that kept plumbers very busy for well over a week...
Don't we see the same hype just about every year? Here comes 1983 roaring down the lee of the Rockies, Armageddon is upon us, get ready for the coldest blast since the last coldest blast. I'll bet if we pulled up the archives there's at least one thread per year or at the very least a few posts warning about the Siberian Express coming down to break our pipes. Always seems to be shunted east or never materialize.redneckweather wrote:I was wondering why it was quiet in here so went and looked at overnight Euro and GFS. Now I know. lol
So is the precip....if we can get them to work together...MontgomeryCoWx wrote:GFS is still very cold with a southern storm.
Euro is coming around to the GFS but has the cold 24-40 hours behind the GFS.
Cold is coming, that much is certain.
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