December 2017: End Of The Year Weather

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The Day 11+ GEFS Super Ensembles suggest a slightly more West shift in the Western Ridge axis with a NW flow aloft across the Inter Mountain West and the Plains. Ridging into Western Alaska looks stronger that far out suggesting a deep cold trough sets up across the Eastern 2/3rds of the United States. Will need to what the temperature anomalies build back to much colder in Alaska and Canada which the GEFS and the ECMWF EPS long range guidance is advertising. Still a lot of time to watch and wait and Winter has just started across our Region... ;)
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From last night:

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There's still patches snow on the ground and north side of roofs...but not much. Fluffy snow melts fast!
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That is just beautiful - love the snow sculptures.
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Well, that was quite a surprise. We got about an inch and a half last night in northern Brazoria County. Enjoyed a 2-hour power outage, too. Oh, and on top of that, after getting back to bed after checking how widespread the outage was, the smoke detector decided it needed new batteries! :|

Anyway, here's what we saw this morning looking out a side window. Those are our orange and grapefruit trees covered in snow:

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This is looking across our back yard. It was already about 0900, so some of the white stuff had already melted. The sheet hanging off the oak is a rather large staghorn fern. I couldn't move it in by myself, so had to just cover it and hope for the best:

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tireman4 wrote:A big huge amount of thanks to all of our contributers here. Without you, this board does not work. We are big weather family and we thank you so much for being here. Second, a huge shout out to our pro mets ( Wxman 57, Srain, Andrew, Brooks, Mcheer, Belmer and Jeff) and amateur mets. We are in your debt for what you contribute to this forum. This Winter, I think, is far from over and I believe there will be more excitement to come in the days and months ahead. Stay tuned and enjoy the ride.
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What an beautiful morning it was for all of us and well deserved after Harvey!
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thanks everyone! wxman57 i really thought you were just jerking our chains for us winter nerds but you werent! thanks to all on khou forums who post -contribute or just lurk! this is what makes this forum what it is!!!
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I stayed up late last night waiting for the snow. When I finally went to bed we were just having flurries. Was shocked when I opened the garage door this morning! And it was still snowing.
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This is the walkway into my office
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My hubby is in Louisiana, it is still snowing there. They got a snow day, ie: no one had to go to work or school. I will still take what we got. So pretty!
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DoctorMu wrote:From last night:

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There's still patches snow on the ground and north side of roofs...but not much. Fluffy snow melts fast!
That would make for a very pretty Xmas card!
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Snow My Gosh!!
Has anyone culminated reports around the region into a list? I'm finding piece-meal totals, but there are large reporting gaps in between. No need to spend time on it, but if one exists, I'm looking for it. Thanks! -Brooks
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brooksgarner wrote:Snow My Gosh!!
Has anyone culminated reports around the region into a list? I'm finding piece-meal totals, but there are large reporting gaps in between. No need to spend time on it, but if one exists, I'm looking for it. Thanks! -Brooks
I think, and thank you so much for your service at KHOU and here, the NWS is still gathering theirs. Not sure. I think Srain would know.
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I'm aware ... :) They're going to release a prelim in about an hour, but I'm trying to get extra reports to show on TV at 4. :)
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Here's the swatch of 3"-6" of snow which fell in College Station. The coating-2" zone melted by the time this satellite passed over.
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srainhoutx wrote:
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THANKS !!! -BG
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Here's our preliminary snowfall totals map based on official and unofficial reports. It's broad-brushed in the coating-2" category since measurements vary depending on if the observer took hourly measurements and added them up, or just grabbed one measurement at daybreak, after the snow had settled. Cheers!
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It was reported from 4"-6" here in Orange. I had at least 3"-4" deep at my house...and how are people adding pictures? How do you get the file size so small that it accepts it? I have great pictures I could share!
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snowman65 wrote:It was reported from 4"-6" here in Orange. I had at least 3"-4" deep at my house...and how are people adding pictures? How do you get the file size so small that it accepts it? I have great pictures I could share!
The only way is to resize the pictures via some photo editing program or Upgraded Photobucket. Another option is if you shared those pictures on facebook, save the images to your PC and them upload them using the attachment feature at the bottom left of the board posting page. Here is a link Dam Meador made way back in January 2010 when he and I were setting up the new PHP Platform...http://forums.khou.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=247
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