More Rain for SE Texas

[GalvestonDuck]

If there's one thing I hate more than rain on a cold day...it's rain on a cold Mardi Gras parade!

Yuck!

[PTrackerLA]

We've already had over 3" of rain here in Lafayette since yesterday with another 2-3 or maybe more likely by tomorrow morning. The river here is already at flood stage so more rain will start causing problems.

[Johnny]

I just got a return e-mail from Frank Billingsley over at channel 2 in Houston. This could get into the Huntsville area.....


The NWS got burned a couple of weeks ago by the models and the cold air-but if you look at it this time the High is over Montana, not N Dakota---temps right now are 18 in Denver, 34 in Chicago-the arctic air is spilling further west which means it will move into texas, unlike a couple of weeks ago---don't worry, they will catch up to my forecast probably tomorrow

No, no winter for us, but maybe up toward Huntsville and out toward college station but that is as close as it gets and probably not even there

Gotta run

Frank



Accuweather Storm Team

KPRC-TV (NBC)

A Post-Newsweek, Inc. Station

8181 Southwest Freeway

Houston, TX 77074

[vbhoutex]

WOW, a return email from Frank!!! I am impressed!!! He said just what I said when I saw the temp map tonight-the cold air is spilling in much farther west. The other kicker here is that there is no other strong system coming in from the West to push it more Easterly. Looks to me like TX will get a really good shot, all be it short, of true artic air out of this one. Now if only the precip would be there!!!!

[Johnny]

Well it looks like the precip will be there but now all we need is them temps to get down around freezing. There are some talks of northern suburbs of Houston getting into the mix. I hardly doubt we will get any accumulations but never the less, some flurries would be nice.
Also high's were supposed to get up near 50 today. Isn't gonna happen. It's 44 here and anoterh surge on the way. The only way for the temp. to do now is Southward. I sure hope the temp trends keeps getting a bit more colder.

[Guest]

Johnny - let's hope it happens.

[njoynit]

no am woodville 79 miles north of Beaumont.but in woods.so temps are usually cooler than forecast.they never match weather channel..never but sometimes match weather bug.I'm kinda in my own lil climate.I'm enjoying the wind day.I need my yard to dry& windchimes to jangle more loadly.the swamp at bottom of my hill has gone from ankle deep to a few inches.still landlocked.I wouldn't mind a lil more wind.would help dry me for some more rain.I hear the word sleet.shame the ground don't freeze.I got enough wet ground to freeze it,but never cold long enough here.but hey...was the whole purpose of moveing south anyway.no snow or cold

[ColdFront77]

no am woodville 79 miles north of Beaumont.but in woods.so temps are usually cooler than forecast.they never match weather channel..never but sometimes match weather bug.I'm kinda in my own lil climate.I'm enjoying the wind day.I need my yard to dry& windchimes to jangle more loadly.the swamp at bottom of my hill has gone from ankle deep to a few inches.still landlocked.I wouldn't mind a lil more wind.would help dry me for some more rain.I hear the word sleet.shame the ground don't freeze.I got enough wet ground to freeze it,but never cold long enough here.but hey...was the whole purpose of moveing south anyway.no snow or cold

Interesting, I just calculated a straight line distance of 51 miles from Beaumont, TX to Woodville, TX; closer to 60 miles by road.

[njoynit]

Hmm whats your road route.I take 190 to jasper to 96 to koontz to 69 rest of way& watch the cop trap at koontz,but is far end almost port A
I love short cuts///especially if sceanery..am also 11 miles from woodville city limits^8 from reservation.my road aint on map...thats 7 miles not shown..not counting the 1 mile to mailbox

[ColdFront77]

The closet route I see is U.S. 287... using my Street & Map program and measuring the distance in my atlas.

[Anonymous]

Wow ! Enjoy the flooding guys

[Anonymous]

speaking of South Texas - it's a beautiful area down there. I spent over three months in Corpus Christy (Padre Island National Seashore) down there. I camped out down there all of summer 2002. It was awfully hot though in July and August !! There were days were I remember super low tides - very beautiuful. Only bad thing was the seaweed down there and the jelly fish whenever the tides got high. It was extremely muggy down there in mid summer - highs around 90 and lows near 78-82 on the beaches. I had to leave the beach daytime because it was too hot - went to the library where it was air conditioned most of my days ! But I guess now is a great time to go down there when it's just right ! I remember visiting Galveston and Houston a few times while I was there, and I also drove through Dallas/Ft Worth on I-35 southbound.