Powerball Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 3 hours ago, vwgrrc said: Just switched from FR to sleet in S Denton County. That was about 4 hours of FR.I feel this started a little earlier than expected but didn't quite progress as bad as the models depicted. I saw a clear coat of ice on tree branches about 9PM and that stays basically unchanged as of now, which is fine for powerline. Hopefully I didn't call that too early! Edit: looks like a portion of Addison lost power based on Oncor map. Not sure if @Powerball is still on If I did lose power, it was back on when I woke up 1/2 hour ago. That said, the faster sleet transition and the fact that surface temps stalled right around freezing during the burst of liquid precip, has definitely saved us from something that could have been much worse. Now if you want some fodder, the 09z RAP is showing 4-6" of snow/sleet for the Metroplex. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Steady light to moderate FREEZING rain now, 32 degrees. North side of the house is plastered with ice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Still almost all sleet by DFW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiegeog Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Freezing rain and some sleet here. Not much icing yet with 30F and no wind. Temp dropping so I expect more icing and more sleet shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 8 minutes ago, cheese007 said: Still almost all sleet by DFW Indications are that areas on the Fort Worth side have started flipping over to snow. But the PL/SN line since then has slowed its progression. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWineman Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Big flakes mixing with the sleet on the NW side of Fort Worth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Still all sleet here. Not sure snow makes it at this point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, cheese007 said: Still all sleet here. Not sure snow makes it at this point... There's a massive pocket of subsidence passing over much of the Metroplex right now. So that's not helping with the transition either. BTW, heavy sleet for hours on end is shit. The only redeeming quality is that it's not freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 9 minutes ago, Powerball said: BTW, heavy sleet for hours on end is shit. The only redeeming quality is that it's not freezing rain. Yeah idk how DFW is gonna hit 2-3 inches of sleet and snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWineman Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Fully changed over now, solid snow for thirty minutes. Sure looks pretty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese007 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 10 minutes ago, SWineman said: Fully changed over now, solid snow for thirty minutes. Sure looks pretty. Finally got it here. Huge flakes at a fast clip. Gorgeous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiegeog Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 We are mainly sleet with some snow, very little ice buildup thankfully. We may get lucky and get a couple inches of sleet and snow instead of the forecasted 1/3" ice and 1/2" snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Still getting heavy pingers here. *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 After a snow/sleet mix for the past 20 minutes, we have finally flipped over to a light snow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXHawk88 Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Finally snowing pretty heavily here in Arlington, it’s a shame we couldn’t flip over to snow sooner. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWineman Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 29 minutes ago, TXHawk88 said: Finally snowing pretty heavily here in Arlington, it’s a shame we couldn’t flip over to snow sooner. Gorgeous. Over too soon I’m afraid, but the forecast for my area was dead on. Unless we get another surprise snow shower we are done in NW Ftw. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhirlingWx Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Yeah, kind of bummed that this isn't gonna last for too long. These are the biggest snowflakes I've ever seen, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Hoping the models showing light right w/ temps hitting freezing around 3 pm would get my Houston area district to cancel school. I didn't think light rain on city streets right at freezing the day after 70F weather would do anything in the metro area (College Station and maybe even Conroe, different story) but I was hoping it would trigger cancelled school. Stuck at 40F with intermittent rain last few hours, 3 km NAM picks up on the city, 7-8 pm quick change to freezing rain doesn't happen at all in central Harris county. Trace. Aggie Land flips this afternoon ~ 2-ish on model, bouncing 33-34F, seems reasonable, the county road bridges there could get tricky, but I doubt they really needed to cancel school. But I doubt the students are complaining. Austin went over to light ice this morning, so cancelling school there, even for a few hundredths, made sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imbeldar Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed, snow and hurricane fan Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 GFS would be almost a tenth freezing rain around Houston, from sunset to almost midnight. Not sure how much would stick to roads, TXDoT is spraying CaCl2 solution even here, but we do have enough creeks and bayous, even in Houston, there might be an untreated overpass. I'd cancel school on principal, and let us out early in case the change happens a touch earlier. But not happening. 1 winter day, 17 flood days in schools in Houston area since 2015. Harvey was 10 days, 2 weeks, on its own. Imelda was a flood day, one of the Greek storms (Beta?) was a flood day. Ice and no school, pretty rare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vwgrrc Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 Things getting quiet down here in Denton and Collin Ct. After all this is not nearly as bad as the models depicted. I'm curious why they missed with so many consensus and consistency for about a week. But after all this is good for the metroplex! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWineman Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 22 minutes ago, vwgrrc said: Things getting quiet down here in Denton and Collin Ct. After all this is not nearly as bad as the models depicted. I'm curious why they missed with so many consensus and consistency for about a week. But after all this is good for the metroplex! I think the harder rate of rain combined with such slowly falling temps saved the northeast side of the metro area from a much worse outcome. Everything ran off before it could freeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebman Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 8 minutes ago, SWineman said: I think the harder rate of rain combined with such slowly falling temps saved the northeast side of the metro area from a much worse outcome. Everything ran off before it could freeze. For us in Hays County well south of the metroplex, what saved us from a potentially destructive ice storm was the changeover from light to moderate freezing rain, to sleet about 520am. Looks like we still got about three sixteenths of an inch of ice accretion down here, then some sleet. We got a boatload of heavy rain before that, about three and a half to perhaps four inches of rain. Buda is wayyyyy ahead so far this new year in the rain department, with about seven and a half inches of rain since Jan 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiegeog Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 A nice dusting of snow across much of East Texas this morning from a decent little band of powder snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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