November 2016 -will cooler temps prevail along with rain

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A line of thunderstorms and cool front will push off the Upper TX by late morning bringing beautiful sunny skies for Thanksgiving with highs in the low 70s.
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Good to get some storms across the area this morning. The progressive pattern continues to develop as we transition to an active weather regime. Folks need to watch next Monday into Tuesday rather carefully as a deeper trough digs to our West and potent storm system organizes with the potential of severe storms a possibility. The Storm Prediction Center has outlined Eastern Texas and portions of Western Louisiana in their Day 6 Outlook. Meanwhile, Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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It is great cooking weather!
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A Happy Thanksgiving! Perfect weather across SE TX today with mostly sunny skies and highs in the low to mid 70s today. Clouds begin to increase this evening with the approach of a warm front leading to some isolated showers tonight and Friday mainly to the SW of the Houston-Galveston areas. The warm front will be followed by more nice weather this weekend before the next upper trough and frontal system bring a threat of severe weather Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all the forum members and their families.I look forward to discussing the upcoming winter weather with all of you. :)
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Wow - big whiff on today's forecast.

A wave in front of a weak cold front was completely missed by the models. Surprisingly soggy join CLL.

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Sunday morning briefing from Jeff:

Highly active weather pattern to evolve over the next several days.

Isolated severe weather chances including tornadoes on Monday for the NE portions of SE TX.

A strong upper level storm system will dig into the southern plains later today and sweep across TX on Monday. Low level moisture will make a rapid return to the region today into tonight on a 40kt+ low level jet. It will be breezy to windy today into Monday as southerly flow deepens ahead of the incoming storm system. Dry line associated with a deepening surface low over the central plains will approach and cross SE TX Monday from around 800am-200pm. While parameters certainly appear in place for severe weather including strong wind shear and strong lift, capping in the mid levels may prevent storms from developing until roughly the Sabine River and instability is on the lower side (400-1100 J/kg). Updrafts may struggle with the low amounts of instability and strong amounts of wind shear. However any storms that are able to develop will certainly face an environment favorable for severe weather with the most likely sever mode tornadoes. Will favor the NE parts of the area roughly from Galveston to Kingwood to Huntsville for the slight risk of severe weather. The threat becomes much more significant toward deep east TX into Louisiana where capping will be weaker and shear and instability higher…could see a few strong tornadoes across the Sabine River Valley into Louisiana. System may produce very little activity around Matagorda Bay where moisture and capping will be limiting factors.

Dry line moves off the coast Monday evening, but a second strong short wave sweeps across the area on Tuesday with an actual cold front. Moisture looks meager, but lift and dynamics look strong so a few showers and thunderstorms may result. SPC Day 3 Outlooks does have a severe threat for Tuesday just to our south and east and this will need to be watched for any trending of activity toward the NW.

Mid to late week period looks dry and seasonable with cool mornings and mild afternoons under mainly sunny skies.

Next powerful storm system looks to be a slow mover and its impacts begin Saturday and last into early next week. Colder air mass will funnel southward ahead of this cutting off upper level storm over NW MX which will send waves of energy out of the eastern Pacific toward TX. Pattern is favorable for the formation of a strong coastal trough with widespread southerly winds overrunning cold NE surface winds. Pattern looks very wet through the period and model agreement has been high on this system and its prolonged impacts on the region. Highs may struggle to get much above 50 Saturday and Sunday with lows in the mid 40’s…so it is looking cold and wet for the first weekend in December. GFS continues to output some fairly impressive QPF numbers during this period…but this is likely a function of the prolonged overrunning event…although would not discount elevated instability to produce some elevated thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. Still a lot of details to work out during this period to firm up primary rainfall time and amounts along with surface temperatures.

Day 2 (Monday) Severe Weather Outlook:
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Thunderstorms pushing across NTX this morning and have remained below severe levels. Showers and few thunderstorms just beginning to develop across N portions of SE TX while streamer showers develop across the Central and S portions of SE TX. The main risk area of severe weather has shifted a little E overnight into LA, SE AR, and MS. Some strong to severe storms will be possible later this morning and into the early afternoon hours across much of SE TX except the SW portion of the area which may receive only a few scattered storms. The storms will push into LA this afternoon as the dry line moves across SE TX bringing clearing skies and very warm upper 70s to low 80s for this time of year.
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Monday morning briefing from Jeff:

Showers and a few thunderstorms this morning…warm this afternoon…showers and thunderstorms again Tuesday evening.

Morning surface charts show a strong surface low pressure system over the northern plains with a cold front and dry line extending SSW from this feature across TX. Dry line currently extends from west of Fort Worth to near Del Rio and is pushing eastward with thunderstorms mainly across N TX. Region of convergence is also leading to thunderstorm development from near Lufkin into western LA. As suspected yesterday the thermodynamics are not really in phase with the main dynamics of this storm system resulting in a fairly stable layer aloft over much of SE TX along with a fairly strong capping inversion. Storms have attempted to develop this morning in the corridor from Columbus to Lake Livingston, but have failed to gain much vertical depth. While shear profiles are very high over the region under a pronounced 50kt low level jet, the weak instability is resulting in meager updrafts and a general failure of those updrafts to take advantage of the wind shear.

Will need to continue to monitor those NE counties along and NE of a line from Huntsville to High Island where a storm or two may overcome the capping and rapidly become severe, but the best chances for any severe weather will be ENE/NE of our area. Main threat will be strong winds in any organized storms with the tornado threat greatly enhanced just to our NE.

Dry line moves to the coast tonight and stalls near the coast/just offshore. Humid air mass will return inland on Tuesday ahead of another strong short wave currently diving through the western US. This feature will bring a cold front across the area Tuesday afternoon and evening and strong lift along the front will likely generate showers and thunderstorms for areas south of HWY 105. Will need to watch the coastal counties for a possible severe threat late Tuesday and latest SPC outlook has areas from Galveston Bay eastward in a slight risk category.

Rest of the week after Tuesday looks dry and cool with lows into the 40’s and highs in the 60’s under moderate offshore flow.

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Another storm system in this highly active pattern will move into NW MX this weekend and become cut off from the main flow aloft. This will result in cool NE surface winds becoming trapped under developing warm and most SW winds aloft. Disturbances will eject out of NE MX and across TX during this period and the overall position of the upper level storm over MX will force a fairly strong coastal trough. Guidance…especially the GFS…continues to point toward high rain chances and cool temperatures during this period. Do not think it will rain the entire time from Saturday-Tuesday, but as disturbances move across periods of rain and showers will be likely. Will likely level out temperatures in the lower 50’s through the entire period with continued cold air advection from the NE and thick clouds and rain.

Day 1 (Monday) Severe Weather Outlook:
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Well this "Severe" event was very disappointing. Sprinkle of rain and many that didint get any. Have a feeling mets were way off on this one. Not even anything severe N/NE of here. Bring on winter already.
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The front (or dry line) passed through the Brenham area at 12:04 marked by a line of clouds, a SW to WNW wind shift and a distinct temperature drop.
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Mostly sunny and about 80F in the Woods. 8-)
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National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1120 AM CST Mon Nov 28 2016

.AVIATION...
A dry line is approaching SE TX and this feature could trigger
additional shra/iso tsra early this aftn. Capping over the
southern 2/3rds of the region will limit the southward extent of
the thunder and will keep KIAH southward as VCSH.A tight pressure
gradient will remain in place for much of the aftn and strong SW
winds will prevail through about 21-22z before wind speeds begin
to relax. Lighter winds expected overnight and fcst soundings show
clearing skies. SREF ensembles favor some patchy fog near the
coast and added MVFR fog at KLBX. Mstr levels begin to increase
again on Tuesday and clouds are expected to return by mid morning.
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A dry - dry line. Figures.
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FXUS64 KHGX 291253
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National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
653 AM CST Tue Nov 29 2016

.AVIATION...
Warm front continues to lift northward and VLIFR conditions mainly
east to west through the ELA/CXO/DWH/IAH/6R3 corridor with
improving visby to the south. Area of showers and a few
thunderstorms rapidly forming between 11R-CLL-UTS-DKR. Expecting
the area of showers to expand and shift east and northeast the
next few hours. Visby should be improving across the board through
15z. As the cold front pushes into the area may get one last
squeeze to help development of showers and isolated thunderstorms
through mid afternoon for IAH/HOU. Dry NW-N flow takes over
tonight with VFR conditions following a few hours after FROPA.
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.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 450 AM CST Tue Nov 29 2016/

DISCUSSION...
Widespread dense fog noted across much of the southern half of SE
TX this morning...with the limited visibilities expected to ling-
er into the mid/late morning hours. This fog developed last night
in the wake of the yesterday`s cold front which has returned back
inland as a warm front. This boundary is expected to stall at/ar-
ound its current location (roughly along a Bellville to Cleveland
line) and could act as a focus for showers/isolated storms (given
some daytime heating). Rain chances will also buoyed with the ap-
proach/passage of a second stronger cold front this afternoon. At
this time only expecting widely scattered activity coverage given
the limited instability.

The cooler/drier weather in the wake of this front for Weds/Thurs
is expected to come to an end Friday. The return of onshore winds
and low-level moisture will be setting the stage for a wet/active
weekend. A deep closed upper low/trof (developing in the vicinity
of the California Baja) is progged to move east across nrn Mexico
Sat/Sun with a coastal surface trof setting up over the middle to
lower TX coast out ahead of it. These systems combined with poss-
ible PWs near 2" are all pointing to widespread unsettled weather
for most of the weekend with heavy rain as the main issue. Models
appear to be in slightly better agreement with these runs, but we
are still seeing the biggest differences with timing. So for now,
stay tuned. Will be adding some initial wording for this weekend
in the HWO later this morning. 41

MARINE...
Quite the variation across the UTCW with winds of 0-8 knots
nearshore and 15-19kts offshore and seas of 6-9 feet. Have kept the
marine dense fog going through 8 am with visibilities of 1 mile or
less and extended the SCA nearshore to 6 am and noon for the
offshore waters. Winds become southwest today and in general relax
somewhat ahead of the incoming cold front. Expect the cold front to
move off the coast between 6 and 8 pm near Matagorda Bay then
Galveston Bay 7-9 pm. Winds in the wake of the front gradually
increase and may need SCA/SCEC by Wednesday 3-6 am for the Gulf
waters. Northerly winds Wednesday through Thursday morning then
winds begin to veer to the NE and E. Long easterly fetch develops
late Friday as coastal troughing forms and flow ramps up bringing
another round of SCA conditions. Eventually the next front kicks
through Saturday night/early Sunday with SCA conditions again in the
wake of the frontal passage.
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.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
College Station (CLL) 75 47 66 40 67 / 30 10 0 0 0
Houston (IAH) 78 53 69 41 67 / 30 30 10 0 0
Galveston (GLS) 77 61 71 52 66 / 20 40 10 0 0

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.HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...Dense Fog Advisory until 8 AM CST this morning for the following
zones: Brazoria...Chambers...Fort Bend...Galveston...
Harris...Jackson...Liberty...Matagorda...Wharton.

GM...Dense Fog Advisory until 8 AM CST this morning for the following
zones: Galveston Bay...Matagorda Bay.

Small Craft Advisory until noon CST today for the following
zones: Waters from Freeport to the Matagorda Ship Channel
from 20 to 60 NM...Waters from High Island to Freeport from
20 to 60 NM.

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Warm..for November....ughh

FXUS64 KHGX 291827
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Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1227 PM CST Tue Nov 29 2016

.AVIATION...
Slowly improving conditions in the vicinity of the stationary
boundary that is draped across the central forecast area. Drier
air filtering into the northwestern counties will work its way
southeast through the day...scattering out skies through sunset.
Winds will swing west and then northwest through the late evening
hours...completely scouring out areawide skies by midnight. Cannot
rule out a stray afternoon shower or two along this dry boundary
as it encounters warm and moist air over the near coastal terminals.
Early Wednesday VFR with a (dry) cold frontal passage timed to
come through and strengthen northerlies just before noon. 31
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The dry dryline is nudging SE towards Prairie View.
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