I know there are a few from the Angleton area here... There is a boil water notice and with continuing issues with the 911 service the usual emergency message wasn't sent via the phone. Virtually no water pressure anyways... same deal here, we had our power shut down shortly before dark on the cold...

per CenterPoint on TWC just now:

"unfortunately, if you are a customer in the Houston area and are without power right now, you should be prepared to be without power for the rest of the day"

TBF, wind turbines in the Dakotas don’t go offline. This is a walk in the park for those in Fargo or Minneapolis. They’re laughing at uss and how we’ll need Federal assistance for snow and cold. I had to explain last night to my post-doc from Europe that he did not have to show up for work. In Chic...

CenterPoint has a Power Alert Service

https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us ... vice?sa=ho


Their FAQs about this service: https://www.centerpointenergy.com/en-us ... %20service

Ptarmigan wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:53 pm If the February 1895 snowfall happened today, the city would be shutdown for a week.

no doubt, I bet they lost a lot of livestock back then though

an historic Valentine's Day Houston snowfall

some added perspective https://www.houston.org/timeline there were no cars in Houston yet...

it does look beautiful though, animate here: https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/b ... _drop=show

Winter Storm Severity Index (WSSI) The WSSI does not depict official warnings and should always be used in context with official NWS forecasts and warnings. For more information, please refer to the following links: Product/Service Description Document, WSSI Users Guide, Interactive ESRI Story Map, ...

you can wrap water pipes at risk with heat tape,and they make blankets for water heaters - much safer and less expensive than letting a space heater run unattended or leaving the attic open

https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=heat+tape

1 PM HGX video update

https://twitter.com/NWSHouston/status/1 ... 9928609795
https://youtu.be/DzgYwQF1v5I

https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wwd/winter_wx.shtml#lows

a little soggy here as well, but better that than the drought - west TX & NM in dire strights already :( https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8f16161b9ed947d98956bbd97e7ae35b https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b95528b80c99405c8caf75d980555528 wis...

I hope everyone has a safe Thanksgiving - I feel the need to tell you 1 of my cousins died from COVID-19 pneumonia on the 9th & today my youngest brother was just admitted to the hospital with the same, oxygen level in the 80s at the time, but better, so far. His entire family has either tested ...

Eta is looking like a very serious storm. Could potentially impact the Gulf coast as well. Some of the model runs are bombing her out big time in the western Caribbean heading towards the Gulf. 150 mph & strengthening, this is devastating for Central America, my heart weeps https://www.nhc.noaa...

temps vary by 50 deegrees across TX this morning https://www.texmesonet.org/

54 here right now & our neighbor's a/c unit has been running/rattling all night long...

thankful for rain we get today, however much - seems to penetrate the soil better than when we water & also cleans the roof & trees, etc - hearing rumbles of thunder & have had a bit already

https://mrms.nssl.noaa.gov/qvs/product_viewer/
https://www.harriscountyfws.org/

so what do y'all think of the new radar site ?

On or about December 8, 2020, the web pages here at radar.weather.gov will be replaced.

https://preview-radar.weather.gov

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Delta https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/index_hls1+shtml/091555.shtml Hurricane Delta Tropical Cyclone Update NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL262020 1100 AM CDT Fri Oct 09 2020 ...11 AM CDT POSITION UPDATE... ...TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS SPREADING ONTO THE UPPE...

Buoy 42019 - 60 NM S of Freeport, TX https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42019 https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_wind_pres.php?station=42019&uom=E&time_diff=-5&time_label=CDT https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/plot_wave.php?station=42019&meas=sght&uom=E&time_diff=-5&ti...

one of the features Chris put on the "storm page" at Tropical Atlantic was movement based on derived data from best track, it auto-calcs, so no guess-work if you have things to do & still want to follow closely http://hurricanecity.com/models/models.cgi?basin=al&year=2020&storm...