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    Yes and no. Not having power and having an entire million person city essentially shut down for days ain't ideal either. 6.4" of snow is a nice event for me (I saw some areas of Austin had 7 or 8") but I've already had more than that in one event 3x this winter and have a good shot at #4 on Thu. There's no comprehension down there (south of Dallas) how to handle any kind of winter event much less anything like this. The utilities are in some real trouble over how things have been handled. To me I wonder how they handle the A/C constantly being on for months under 100+ degree heat but can't handle this. I know some wires must have been damaged from ice but a lot of what just fell in TX was snow.
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    Snowpack largely intact but some areas exposed to the sun are bare. Shaded areas definitely have a good bit left and we have the huge dirt/ice piles that will get even bigger on Thu.
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    700mb frontogenesis at 48hr on the NAM for 18z Thu. This is exactly what the NYC/coastal areas would need to get a quick 2"/hr thump on Thu afternoon to get 6-8" even if they eventually mix. That would be one crazy snow band. The models now are essentially saying we get this very heavy snow batch for several hours then a lull where the warm air can come in. Central Park needs 6.2" I believe to get to 40" on the season-decent chance of this right now.
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    We have the well placed WAA that brings the heavy snow in on Thu like a wall that makes the 6” totals possible near the coast. If the heavy snow is more scattered or the main WAA is aimed NW of the city, amounts will be less. As usual I think it’s 90-95% chance that at least the city will go to sleet at some point and probably rain. But by then a lot may have fallen already.
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    Hopefully those models are correct that there could be heavy banding and the snow comes in solidly. As others pointed out the problem in Dec was there was a few hours of good snow then the snow shredded up and warm air took over. I agree that most will change over to no -snow eventually-rain near the coast and sleet inland. Any of these setups where we’re sweating the mid level low tracks end in changeovers.
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    Snowpack is holding up decently well here but still taking a big hit with temps near 50 and rain. Hopefully we can salvage a fair amount before the event on Thu.
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    6.4” of snow in Austin, third most on record and most in one event since 1949. Low tonight of 3 and more freezing rain on the way. Rolling power outages all over the city. Crazy situation
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    It’s always a question of how the snow comes in-like a wall or shredded. If shredded the warm air advances more quickly and flips it over to sleet. That was our problem in the December storm.
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    Would be nice but I doubt it. We’re back into a period where the SE ridge is dominating and the blocking or what’s left doesn’t compensate. Nina climo in Feb can only be held off for so long. Should hopefully be a nice 3-6” thump before rain or sleet though. The high can at least make that happen.
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    Started as sleet in Long Beach as well with a few flakes. Now just some very light freezing drizzle which will make a glazed mess.
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    Light sleet and a few flakes in Long Beach.
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    It's the SE ridge rearing its head. The core of the cold is shooting down the Plains/Midwest and we get a relatively glancing blow. Austin getting down to 6 would equivalently mean us getting down well below zero? That says something by itself-NYC may make it to 15 but much of TX in a much more subtropical climate where palm trees can naturally grow may get 5-10 degrees colder.
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    Thanks Walt! We might be heading back to a pattern where the SE ridge is asserting itself again and blocking might relax, meaning we go back to warmer storm tracks. Hopefully we can make one more run with a cold system but down here on the coast it’s always tougher as it is. And it might be a big story as you say with the sleet/ice this weekend being absorbed into an already thick snowpack.
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    Seems like this will be a surface cold based/icy setup so the models that can’t resolve that properly (GFS) will suffer.
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    Wow, even Corpus Christi right on the Gulf is under a winter storm watch for ice and expected low on Mon night of 18.
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    I remember flying in from TX during the Feb 2016 cold snap and absolutely freezing when I got off the plane. It was in the mid 70s when I left and probably single digits at JFK. Coming back up from the south, the cold is hard to get back adjusted to.
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    “Severe” weather I experienced on LI is nothing like actual severe weather in Austin that’s for sure. But yes this is essentially a BECS upcoming for snow and cold in TX.
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    The Target near the New York Ave/Jericho Tpke intersection is the go to sledding area in my immediate backyard. Significant difference in snowpack between the Smithtown and Islip ends of Rt 111 today as you would expect.
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    Thanks! The airport is in a more exurban area outside of downtown so it typically gets a couple degrees colder than the city, however the CAA might be strong enough for it not to matter. Camp Mabry is the more representative temp for downtown.
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    The blocking and big time -AO saved us so far. When that relaxes we’ll torch for sure on the SE ridge.
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    Nope. The light glaze I mentioned shut the city down. My office told everyone to work from home and it was a disaster.
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    Low of 6 now expected in Austin on Mon night along with 2-4” snow. I’ll have to look to see when temps have been that cold there. It must be several decades at least. And that amount of snow is also incredibly unusual. When I lived there over 2 winters 2015 and 2016 we had a light glaze one morning and that was it. A few mornings below freezing.
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    I don’t really remember 93-94, I was 7 years old then. I remember bits and pieces. The first real memory I have was the 95-96 winter specifically Jan 96 which really got me into weather.
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    The warm air aloft is caused by the strengthening SE ridge and an attempt to have a primary low feature that drives warm mid level air in. This is all cutting into a strong surface high in Canada that is keeping cold low level air in place. Hopefully the ice storm depictions don’t happen. No one wants a 0.5” or more freezing rain event that would cause tens of thousands of power outages.
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    Yep, insane cold and snow upcoming for Central TX, and today even up to 1/4" ice. Austin may have a high below 20 on Monday with 2-4" also possible!! That hasn't happened there in decades. It's essentially a 93-94 level cold airmass along with 24-30" blizzard equivalent for our area if not even worse. Icy bridges, overpasses still possible as freezing rain winds down | KXAN Austin
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