Texas 2025 Discussion/Observations

[gwlee7]

There is a little bit of “frizzle’ with a few flurries and occasional flake falling in South West Lewisville.

[DFWWeather]

On 2/4/2025 at 7:55 AM, Stx_Thunder said:

Not seeing any strong signal for another Arctic air intrusion or outbreak in the state for the rest of the season. The next few frontal airmass intrusions are mostly just Canadian origin with the real cold air firmly staying north/east.

-AO does not always translate to Arctic air intrusion nor outbreak (even during winter).

I apologize if I have upset you, but you absolutely did say no more Arctic air for the rest of the season. See your post above from Feb 4th. All I did was disagree with you. I use the word 'extreme' because that is the term the NWS uses. The Extreme Cold Warning is not just for wind chills, it is also issued for the prolonged duration of subfreezing temps, and the threat of temps falling to 10 or lower or for high temps failing to reach 20. For our area, the latter is considered severe cold. In this case, there is a threat some areas around the DFW Metroplex will get to the single digits with this and for a prolonged duration subfreezing temperatures, not to mention wind chills as cold as 10 below zero.

I was just pointing out that not even South Texas is escaping the cold. Anytime it freezes in LRGV it is a big deal. That is why Marshall J. McFarland came up with the McFarland signature that recognized prominent 500mb pattern features that lead up to freezes deep into Texas. The key to getting Texas cold is the position of the west coast ridge, if it is along the west coast, or off-shore up over Alaska. The latter has historically produced some of Texas' biggest cold shots and is a key element in the McFarland pattern. Though the current outbreak was not a result of a McFarland.

[aggiegeog]

Widespread flurries across the N half of the state today. Areas south of favored lakes could see a couple inches otherwise just flurries and mist. Temps across N and NE TX will max out in the mid 20s with continued flurries. Tonight will clear out and wind will die down allowing temps to fall into the 5-15 range and some near the Red River that get snow today may go sub 0 tonight. Many will stay below freezing tomorrow and a few may stay below freezing Friday also.

[TXHawk88]

It’s not much but I’ll take it, having snow flurries fly around makes this cold a lot more enjoyable. 2 years in a row of pretty decent lake effect snow. 

[gwlee7]

When I saw it flurrying, I had not considered lake effect snow.  I now know that if covering enough surface area, man made lakes can give us a little eye candy.  

[Stx_Thunder]

6 hours ago, DFWWeather said:

I apologize if I have upset you, but you absolutely did say no more Arctic air for the rest of the season. See your post above from Feb 4th. All I did was disagree with you. I use the word 'extreme' because that is the term the NWS uses. The Extreme Cold Warning is not just for wind chills, it is also issued for the prolonged duration of subfreezing temps, and the threat of temps falling to 10 or lower or for high temps failing to reach 20. For our area, the latter is considered severe cold. In this case, there is a threat some areas around the DFW Metroplex will get to the single digits with this and for a prolonged duration subfreezing temperatures, not to mention wind chills as cold as 10 below zero.

 

Again, taking words right out of my mouth on here for obvious reasons..

Like I already said in my last post, if you had just kept to what you actually wanted to say about the cold (instead of coming back to "correct" me again & again), everything would've literally been fine in here.

It's just common sense and etiquette. Nothing complicated about this.

[aggiegeog]

For Tyler, 2025 could well show up in the record book the same number of times as 2021 between record lows and record low high. 2021 had 5. 2025 has a legit shot at 5 from this event.
Today's record low high was 31 and we had a high of 24. It is already down to 18 so tomorrow's record low of 19 will fall at midnight. Tomorrow's record low high is 36, that likely also falls. Friday's records of 19 and 35 will be close but are attainable. Today was also the latest ever sub 26 high. Basically this event is only rivaled by 1978 and 2021 for cold outbreaks around this time period of the 3rd week of Feb.