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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#841 Postby Texas Snow » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:14 am

starsfan65 wrote:
Brent wrote:nobody talking about snow for DFW on tv tonight lol

Steve McCauley said maybe some to the south and west
Are you kidding me?


I haven’t seen anything that would have me stake my reputation on DFW snow and it’s not even my livelihood.

jaguars_22 wrote:Right on me in Victoria ;) ya right!!! Only happened once in my 33 yrs and it was 2004 Christmas Eve! Best Christmas ever!

Does anyone really believe these models???


Not me. Curious how it trends tomorrow but really Thursday is the first critical day in my opinion.



Don’t get me wrong I am -removed- for snow, but based on what I have seen, I would not forecast it, yet
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#842 Postby jaguars_22 » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:21 am

It’s all fake news :) and the winner is...... no snow
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#843 Postby Brent » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:23 am

jaguars_22 wrote:Right on me in Victoria ;) ya right!!! Only happened once in my 33 yrs and it was 2004 Christmas Eve! Best Christmas ever!

Does anyone really believe these models???


after last week when they buried DFW and it didn't snow a flake??? in a word... no :P :lol:
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#844 Postby gpsnowman » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:41 am

I'm half asleep. Is the Euro next?
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#845 Postby fendie » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:44 am

Looking at the 18Z Euro and 0Z GFS for KAUS, the column looks to cool quite nicely between now and Saturday night. Only time will tell where the energy aligns with the sufficiently cold and moist air.

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Looking at the ensemble means it sure looks like someone in the Lone Star State will see some flakes this weekend. Latitude will be a big influence on totals, but I think we all would be happy to just see some flakes fall.

As always it will be fun watching the models do their thing and see how meteorologists play their cards.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#846 Postby Cpv17 » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:44 am

gpsnowman wrote:I'm half asleep. Is the Euro next?


The Euro starts at about midnight and ends at 1.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#847 Postby gpsnowman » Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:46 am

Cpv17 wrote:
gpsnowman wrote:I'm half asleep. Is the Euro next?


The Euro starts at about midnight and ends at 1.

Gracias CP.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#848 Postby Ntxw » Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:18 am

Ukmet went the northern route.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#849 Postby Brent » Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:24 am

Euro is a LOT further north to me

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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#850 Postby Haris » Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:25 am

AMAZING EURO!!
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#851 Postby Brent » Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:26 am

Still blanks DFW but it did seem to setup better if you look at the frames the precip is much more expansive

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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#852 Postby TropicalTundra » Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:40 am

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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#853 Postby Ralph's Weather » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:29 am

Saw WUnderground app has snow for Sunday night for me. Today's the day I am going to start really studying this system. By tomorrow I believe we will have a good idea of what this system is going to do. My initial guess is the bullseye will be north of I-20 though.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#854 Postby TeamPlayersBlue » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:20 am

Im having trouble posting a pic from imgur. Not sure what is going.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#855 Postby HockeyTx82 » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:32 am

Ok, so I'm lost. FWD NWS is not impressed with this weekend's system. Sounds like version 2.0 of the last cold rain we just had.

From all the various posts here the consensus is the system is going to go north and DFW is going to get it?

I've seen so many model posts and people pulling for this area or that part of Texas I'm lost. Texas is a big state, as we all know, so from the pics I've seen and what NWS I'm thinking DFW will miss out once again?

What am I missing? I'm also back at work this week so my attention is not what it was over over the break
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#856 Postby TeamPlayersBlue » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:33 am

https://imgur.com/MGj5oeR

Until i can figure out how to fix this, here is the link.

The sounding is a sounding of Sugar Land, or near it. Notice how the moist layer starts up near the 500mb layer and is past the 900 mb layer. Showing snow falling in the entire column. Ground temps at 39F. Now, we have had a very similar situation to this in Dec 2017. I encourage you guys to check it out. Exact same situation, and they predicted rain up until the day of. By looking at the sounding for my area, i was able to determine that snow would be falling, not rain.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#857 Postby orangeblood » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:36 am

HockeyTx82 wrote:Ok, so I'm lost. FWD NWS is not impressed with this weekend's system. Sounds like version 2.0 of the last cold rain we just had.

From all the various posts here the consensus is the system is going to go north and DFW is going to get it?

I've seen so many model posts and people pulling for this area or that part of Texas I'm lost. Texas is a big state, as we all know, so from the pics I've seen and what NWS I'm thinking DFW will miss out once again?

What am I missing? I'm also back at work this week so my attention is not what it was over over the break


Still too early to tell...system is still in the Northern Pacific, south of the Aleutians.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#858 Postby bubba hotep » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:39 am

HockeyTx82 wrote:Ok, so I'm lost. FWD NWS is not impressed with this weekend's system. Sounds like version 2.0 of the last cold rain we just had.

From all the various posts here the consensus is the system is going to go north and DFW is going to get it?

I've seen so many model posts and people pulling for this area or that part of Texas I'm lost. Texas is a big state, as we all know, so from the pics I've seen and what NWS I'm thinking DFW will miss out once again?

What am I missing? I'm also back at work this week so my attention is not what it was over over the break


The NWS offices coordinate with each other and with offices like SPC, WPC, etc on forecast. Currently, FWD & Austin are going cold rain and San Angelo and offices farther west & north are mentioning winter weather. They will update forecast accordingly and usually don't make big cycle-to-cycle jumps.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#859 Postby txtwister78 » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:58 am

bubba hotep wrote:
HockeyTx82 wrote:Ok, so I'm lost. FWD NWS is not impressed with this weekend's system. Sounds like version 2.0 of the last cold rain we just had.

From all the various posts here the consensus is the system is going to go north and DFW is going to get it?

I've seen so many model posts and people pulling for this area or that part of Texas I'm lost. Texas is a big state, as we all know, so from the pics I've seen and what NWS I'm thinking DFW will miss out once again?

What am I missing? I'm also back at work this week so my attention is not what it was over over the break


The NWS offices coordinate with each other and with offices like SPC, WPC, etc on forecast. Currently, FWD & Austin are going cold rain and San Angelo and offices farther west & north are mentioning winter weather. They will update forecast accordingly and usually don't make big cycle-to-cycle jumps.



The Austin/San Antonio Forecast Office (EWX) has updated to a Rain/Snow mix now in the Hill Country so that is a change from their previous forecast yesterday afternoon when it was a "cold rain". They mentioned higher probabilities from the Euro ENS in their overnight discussion.
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Re: Texas Winter 2020-2021

#860 Postby bubba hotep » Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:54 am

Looks like some big changes coming to the 12z GFS. Now to see if it makes any difference at the surface.
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