Texas Winter 2025-2026

[downsouthman1]

I work in Sherman and will be here till about 5 PM today. Am outside and can most certainly confirm that it's dropping here. Also whatever is falling from the sky sounds weird on surfaces but is hard to see currently.

[Quixotic]

Gainesville not reporting. Ugh.

[Tammie]

Just hit 40 degrees in Pottsboro north of Sherman. 8 more degrees!

Blow SOUTH!!! Sherman is still sitting at 45°!

[opticsguy]

All these road treatments being washed away...

Those are ridiculous and ineffective in my opinion. If the ice and cold are there, nothing will stop frozen roads. It's just something for the cities and the local news to report.

Kansas seemed to be more effective since they used sand and salt (it helped that nearby my hometown there was one of the biggest salt mines in the country). That stuff wasn't as prone to leaving it seems as the liquid.

I may have to see if we can move our spa delivery to Thursday, but they wanted a few days to dry out the ground. But the snow potential on Friday is....interesting. I would love it since this will be more sleet though.

My dad worked at a Dow plant in michigan that made calcium chloride road salt. Worked well below zero and didn't poison the soil . Expensive, though

[bubba hotep]

For DFW, front seems to be past Bowie and approaching Decatur.

Models are also struggling with the push of really cold air. 17z HRRR is already 2-4F too warm across the Northern Texas Panhandle and over into Northern Oklahoma at 18z.

[TomballEd]

Wow, this CMC upper level chart looks phenomenal for late next week...can't draw it up much better for a Texas Snow Storm!!! GFS similar as well

https://images.weatherbell.com/model/gem-all/conus/z500_anom/1769169600/1769796000-DZPb95DBRXg.png

Not a perfect McFarland signal, the Northeast trough should be around Hudson Bay, the ridge into Alaska should be a bit further west than shown, but an almost E-W oriented trough line extending from the larger trough (that is a smidge too far S) is one of the markers of a McFarland signature.

[gpsnowman]

Radar looking pretty with some heavier bands moving through. Happy we can get some rain before the frozen stuff hits. It has been a while.

[wxman22]

No surprise but Norman has now upped snowfall amounts in WF to the 4-6 inch range.

[Quixotic]

For DFW, front seems to be past Bowie and approaching Decatur.

Models are also struggling with the push of really cold air. 17z HRRR is already 2-4F too warm across the Northern Texas Panhandle and over into Northern Oklahoma at 18z.

Yep. We’ve seen this movie before.

[Ralph's Weather]

I work in Sherman and will be here till about 5 PM today. Am outside and can most certainly confirm that it's dropping here. Also whatever is falling from the sky sounds weird on surfaces but is hard to see currently.

Profile is not there yet for sleet in Sherman with no cold sub freezing layer below the warm nose yet, farther west closer to Wichita Falls precip will likely begin to have sleet mixing in now. I would expect some sleet to mix in with the rain this evening for areas like Sherman starting around dinner time and push south from there as the low level cold gets builds in.

[rwfromkansas]

On the FWD probabilistic snow product, the 3-inch line is now down to Denton. Decent shift south on the northern end.

[TomballEd]

There is a wind shift line that was near Temple and Waco last time I checked. Dewpoints were dropping slowly behind that. I assume (correct me if I'm wrong) you guys are tracking the 'main' front.

[jasons2k]

Freezing in Post, off the caprock.

[Ralph's Weather]

There is a wind shift line that was near Temple and Waco last time I checked. Dewpoints were dropping slowly behind that. I assume (correct me if I'm wrong) you guys are tracking the 'main' front.

I am tracking the line where DPs/humidity drops significantly. That's where the surface temps will begin to fall.

[Iceresistance]

No surprise but Norman has now upped snowfall amounts in WF to the 4-6 inch range.

https://i.ibb.co/DP2pz415/IMG-0623.jpg

I am at 8-12 inches of snow, but highest uncertainty since sleet

[Ralph's Weather]

Latest HRRR is pretty good on the initial post frontal temps but it is around 4F too warm with the secondary push locates in the northern Panhandle through far north OK.

[snownado]

Those are ridiculous and ineffective in my opinion. If the ice and cold are there, nothing will stop frozen roads. It's just something for the cities and the local news to report.

Kansas seemed to be more effective since they used sand and salt (it helped that nearby my hometown there was one of the biggest salt mines in the country). That stuff wasn't as prone to leaving it seems as the liquid.

I may have to see if we can move our spa delivery to Thursday, but they wanted a few days to dry out the ground. But the snow potential on Friday is....interesting. I would love it since this will be more sleet though.

My dad worked at a Dow plant in michigan that made calcium chloride road salt. Worked well below zero and didn't poison the soil . Expensive, though

I'm sure your dad can also attest the biggest drawback with rock salt is that it tears up the roads, especially when you're in a climate with frequent enough winter thaws. That's why Michigan's roads have become an internet meme for their god awful quality and massive potholes.

EDIT: The salt also causes a ton of corrosion on a vehicle's exterior, which is why used cars from that part of the country tend to be undesirable in the resale market.

Despite all of that, the reason it's used so heavily there is because Detroit just so happens to sit atop a massive natural salt mine (so the cost you mention is a non-issue).

[txtwister78]

Bullish signal right there also coming from Euro ENS when you're still 7 days out.

[Stonewood Ranch]

Evan Andrews Fox 4 just tweeted about 20 minutes ago Ice Storm Warning for Henderson, Freestone, Anderson & Van Zandt Counties until 12pm Sunday.

[Stratton23]

txtwister78 yeah thats crazy! I knew changes were coming in late January once i saw models spiking that ridge in Alaska, but to say we have a winter storm in progress and now possibly a snow storm all within the next 10 days, well just say the unbelievable has become believable now lol, what an incredible pattern we are in