aggiegeog

Precip wise this is worse, cold wise no about 5 to 10 degrees warmer. Overall impacts in northern Texas are different but similar.

Eh, roads being iced over for 4 to 5 days and possible widespread power issues from downed lines is major and something we have not seen in this area in quite some time. Hoping that it turns into a sleet and heavy snow event instead which is possible for DFW, but that means worse icing for Central and East Texas. I think people are very justified in wanting to be prepared. Lows in the single digits will make for uncomfortable nights if you don't have power.

That is a pretty solid representation of what I am thinking. Potential for Dec 2013 type storm but more widespread and colder with it being Feb.

GFS has seemed to have a good handle on this event for a while. Op and ensembles are very consistent. Other models are all over the place though ICON also pretty solid.

This is very true, here in East Texas we made it down to -8 last Feb because of a foot of snow on the ground.

For a smaller area it could be much worse though if forecasts hold. I think the area northwest of a Waco to Texarkana line could see 2013 level impacts with over an inch of liquid equivalent with temps in the teens and 20s. Roads will be very bad and power lines could fail across a wide region. I don't think this will be an event that causes rolling blackouts though. Several inches of ice/sleet and some snow to insulate with temps below freezing into early the following week. The trailing storm that is possible over the weekend will only make things worse. Thunderstorms with temps near 20 will be very interesting.

I'll second Guadalajara and Orlando's both are great. A lot of very good to great restaurants for a small town. Not sure either beats Chimayo though if you travel between Santa Fe and Taos on the High Road.

It's gonna be a wild week or so in DFW with several rounds of ice before the snow starts Sunday. Could be some significant icing for northern DFW this week. Then significant snow on top next Sunday/Monday. Another round or two of frozen precip later in the week. All of this with very cold temperatures that could bottom out in the single digits next week with rural areas possibly going below 0.

Temps are busting way low today in N TX as they did yesterday in OK. Freezing drizzle is beginning to cause road issues in north Texas. Here in E TX yesterday NWS had us at 60 today and tomorrow. It's 39 here already. The main cold is still way up in northern Canada and Alaska so the cold will be building for another week. DFW is looking at around 250 hours below freezing. The record is 295 hours in Dec 1983.

Reliable models are indicating 6 to 12 inches of snow for areas south of I-20 in Texas. GFS is terrible with surface temperatures within an Arctic air mass so I give it little weight in these type scenarios.