re: Winter thread: 3.5" officially in BR on the 8th day of meteorological winter!!

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Temps in the 70s in January piss me off. And there's nothing like a good frz rain/sleet/snow threat to liven things up around an otherwise boring time of year.

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My first couple years at LaTech ('82-'83) were shorts and t-shirts through the whole winter pretty much.

Then had a REAL cold winter where most of E.Tex and all of N.La. from Alexandria north was frozen over in ice and snow for 10 days in a row or longer. High temps hovering around 20 degrees for a week in Ruston.

There was a year it was so cold when picked my sister up at Tulsa airport for Christmas on bright sunny clear day when we turned to leave it was a blizzard outside the front door. Then we noticed was just the one door area. Walked out and looked back, the heat transfer unit that usually produces a bunch of steam was instead producing snow as the steam froze just an inch or 2 above the vent, piling snow up rapidly.

Early 2014 winter was brutal

Last two images on the most recent GFS run show an ice/snow storm in Dallas and LA

16 days out... I'm sure it will verify. Gassing up the generator now.

This upcoming pattern is legit. The cold air could stick around until Christmas or longer. I'm actually somewhat optimistic that we might see some winter weather here in DFW at some point. It's just hard to argue against a signal this strong in the Euro EPS.

I'm with rds dc here.
Even though it's many days out, it's rare to see this kind of agreement between three models. Cold is coming, now moisture?? Who knows...

Models are showing cold starting middle of next week and persisting through at least mid month and likely beyond for everyone east of the Rockies. There is blocking developing over Greeenland (-NAO), Arctic (-AO), West Coast (+PNA) and Alaska (-EPO). For Texas, I am hoping to see a weaker PNA and NAO so the cold would be more Plains based. For Texas, the best snows usually come from - to = PNA so we have a low over the SW.

The best site for discussing Texas weather is Storm2k and AmericanWX is great overall.

Will we ever see another December of '89 cold..?

Yep, three days of sub freeze weather... Started with 2" of snow just before Christmas.. Lake Pontchatrain had ice on it...

Went to our camp, on the West Pearl River Christmas night, and broke ice in the canal from the launch to the river.