Still watering here with sprinklers....winds from the N/NE....I think any shot of rain will be over the city and not up here.

The front was virtually stationary right over me this morning, with the winds waffling back and forth (it was mostly calm). In the last hour, it has pushed just barely to my south and the winds here are from the E/NE, but very light. To show how optimistic I am for rain....I have my sprinklers runni...

The sun is coming out here in South Montgomery. Maybe, just maybe we'll get enough heating to break the cap *crosses fingers*.

The cooler Gulf waters (not just shelf waters) are preventing the inflow of DEEP Gulf moisture across our area. Yes, we have some very shallow low-level moisture, taking our dew points into the 60s and surface temps above normal. But above the shallow surface layer there is NOTHING! No moisture. Ca...

But we're having highs 10 degrees above normal for early-mid March with dewpoints in the mid 60's. How are the cool shelf waters squelching our rain chances? That argument just doesn't resonate with me. I guess the point I'm making is that I don't see that as much of a factor at all. It's really mor...

Hey Ed - thanks for your thoughtful reply. Yes, I do understand the factors of closer to the dryline, better proximity to jet dynamics, etc. That makes the cap much easier to break. Yes, often the upper-level energy is better in places further north, especially after about March or so. What I'm stru...

wxman, you are just dieing to jump into some spandex aren't you? :shock: :mrgreen: Are we actually going to go through ANOTHER Spring season without some good storms? Man, I don't even remember the last time we had a good stormy Spring. Yack! Well, wxman57 did say that we would be paying for all of...

I spent all day Saturday and again on Sunday clearing out all the dead and getting things ready for Spring. I did lose one Majesty Palm. It was sickly anyway. I pulled the crown right off and the center was full of maggots. The other three are OK. Pygmy Dates are OK. All the other palms are Zone 8 a...

I think I was able to save everything I tried to save - my majesty palms and pygmy date palms.

I do have one Majesty Palm that is smaller than the other three and seemed to be sickly already - that one plant may be history.

I hope we have a active, or at least a "normal" spring storm season this time instead of another season of cap, cap, and more cap

Geez, it's cold! I was concerned about all of this (colder temps) when I saw negative readings in the Panhandle late yesterday. This could be the coldest night for me yet, even colder than last year's 19F at this rate. And I thought after surviving last week this week was going to be easy - yikes! I...

I've been having flurries here on an off for about an hour here. It's not graupel. In my experience, graupel tends to fall more rapidly to the surface and not "float" all around the air like snow/flurries do. The sounding has to be wrong. It's not surprising to me at all - we see it all th...

Me either- already down to 26 here.

I only managed a high of 31F today - the coldest max of the whole week...

Now I'm getting a mixture of flurries, frz rain, snow grains, and sleet all at once.

Same here as a lot of other places - 1/4" - 1/8" coating of ice on everything. Too bad it's not snow even up here on Montgomery County.

Currently 30.4 with VERY VERY light intermittent flurries here at the house. As I told Jeff in my text I was reluctant to report it, but I confirmed the moisture on my windshield. If nothing else the lower levels are definitely starting to moisten. I still expect the snow, but maybe not as much as ...

Look at the radar

Wow - IH 35 near Laredo is closed at MM6 going into town due to icy bridges and numerous accidents.

Ceilings have lowered significantly within the past hour in NW Harris County. this is good? :oops: I just took the dog for a walk and noticed the same thing. This is definitely a good sign. The sky is starting to get that 'isentropic lift' appearance too it with the light reflecting off the lowerin...