NOVEMBER 2018: Thanksgiving Outlook

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6 to 10 day outlook...
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Interestingly, the 12Z GEFS (Ensemble) suggests the potential for a light freeze/frost next Tuesday/Wednesday and possibly Thursday mornings across most areas along and N of I-10. While it is too soon to know exactly what the sensible weather may bring, our Agricultural and Gardening interests may want to follow the future forecast closely.
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Stepping down, as Srain might say....


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FXUS64 KHGX 071753
AFDHGX

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
1153 AM CST Wed Nov 7 2018

.AVIATION [18Z TAF Issuance]...

Surface analysis has cold front from central TX to east TX just
north of a KCLL to KLFK line. The front should slowly slide into
the area. South of the boundary conditions are transitioning from
MVFR to VFR with the possibility of isolated TSRA. TAFs will carry
VCTS given SPC marginal risk and HRRR/WRF runs supporting
convection forming along the front later this afternoon and
evening. There are some TSRA that have formed along the coast so
KLBX and KGLS may need updated for a prevailing TSRA if it looks
like storms along this convergent zone shift into their areas.
KHOU may also see TSRA earlier than what the TAF shows and will be
monitored.

Front should slide south 00Z to 09Z tonight with very slow
progress. We anticipate the front may push to the coast but there
is a chance the front stalls near KLBX and KGLS. This would impact
the ceiling/visibility forecast for tomorrow morning. Assuming
the front pushes through, IFR or even LIFR conditions are expected
with fog/drizzle possible. Current observations behind the front
in north Texas have ceilings 200-800ft. Low ceilings will likely
linger through much of the day tomorrow with not much improvement.
Expectation is for IFR to become MVFR but IFR may hold.

Overpeck

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION /Issued 926 AM CST Wed Nov 7 2018/...

.DISCUSSION...
Did make some tweaks to the going forecast...mainly for temper-
atures based on current trends. Another record high is possible
for GLS (previous record is 83 set in 2017 and 1995). Otherwise
fog should continue to burn off by mid morning. Scattered TSRAs
are expected to develop further inland this afternoon. 41


&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...

College Station (CLL) 60 65 51 57 44 / 50 50 80 50 10
Houston (IAH) 65 74 55 58 46 / 50 40 80 80 20
Galveston (GLS) 69 74 60 63 51 / 50 30 70 80 30

&&

.HGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

TX...None.
GM...None.

&&

$$


AVIATION...Overpeck
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The coldest air of the Season looks to arrive Sunday night into Monday. A big dome of Canadian High Pressure settles over East Texas setting the stage for some very chilly early morning temperatures early to mid next week.
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Flood Advisory continues until 9:30PM for central Harris County:

Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX
724 PM CST WED NOV 7 2018

TXC201-080330-
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Harris TX-
724 PM CST WED NOV 7 2018

The National Weather Service in League City has issued a

* Flood Advisory for...
Central Harris County in southeastern Texas...

* Until 930 PM CST.

* At 723 PM CST, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to a slow
moving thunderstorm. This will cause minor flooding within the
advisory area. Up to one to two inches of rain have already fallen.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Jersey Village, Greater Greenspoint, northwestern Northside /
Northline, Aldine, northeastern Addicks Park Ten, Fairbanks /
Northwest Crossing, Willowbrook, Hidden Valley, Acres Home, Greater
Inwood, Carverdale, Westbranch and Central Northwest.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around, don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.

Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall will cause flooding of small
creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as
well as other drainage areas and low lying spots.
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Cold Weather is coming...

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
609 AM CST THU NOV 8 2018

HOUSTON-TRINITY-MADISON-WALKER-SAN JACINTO-POLK-BURLESON-BRAZOS-
WASHINGTON-GRIMES-MONTGOMERY-NORTHERN LIBERTY-COLORADO-AUSTIN-
WALLER-INLAND HARRIS-CHAMBERS-WHARTON-FORT BEND-INLAND JACKSON-
INLAND MATAGORDA-INLAND BRAZORIA-INLAND GALVESTON-
SOUTHERN LIBERTY-COASTAL HARRIS-COASTAL JACKSON-COASTAL MATAGORDA-
COASTAL BRAZORIA-COASTAL GALVESTON-MATAGORDA ISLANDS-
BRAZORIA ISLANDS-GALVESTON ISLAND AND BOLIVAR PENINSULA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF CROCKETT, TRINITY, GROVETON,
MADISONVILLE, HUNTSVILLE, SHEPHERD, COLDSPRING, LIVINGSTON,
CORRIGAN, CALDWELL, SOMERVILLE, COLLEGE STATION, BRYAN, BRENHAM,
NAVASOTA, CONROE, THE WOODLANDS, LIBERTY, CLEVELAND, DAYTON,
COLUMBUS, EAGLE LAKE, WEIMAR, SEALY, BELLVILLE, HEMPSTEAD,
PRAIRIE VIEW, BROOKSHIRE, WALLER, HOUSTON, WINNIE, MONT BELVIEU,
ANAHUAC, STOWELL, OLD RIVER-WINFREE, EL CAMPO, WHARTON,
MISSOURI CITY, MISSION BEND, SUGAR LAND, ROSENBERG, FIRST COLONY,
PECAN GROVE, EDNA, GANADO, BAY CITY, PEARLAND, ALVIN, ANGLETON,
LEAGUE CITY, FRIENDSWOOD, DEVERS, PASADENA, BAYTOWN, PALACIOS,
LAKE JACKSON, FREEPORT, CLUTE, TEXAS CITY, DICKINSON, LA MARQUE,
SURFSIDE BEACH, AND GALVESTON
609 AM CST THU NOV 8 2018

...MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND AND AGAIN NEXT
WEEK...

AFTER SEVERAL DAYS OF UNSEASONABLY HOT WEATHER, SOUTHEAST TEXAS
WILL UNDERGO A DRAMATIC SHIFT IN FORTUNE. A STRONG COLD FRONT
WILL CROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS EARLY FRIDAY AND USHER IN SOME OF THE
COLDEST TEMPERATURES SO FAR THIS AUTUMN. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE
FRONT WILL FALL INTO THE 50'S EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AND PERIODS OF
RAIN AND THICK CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT HEATING SO AFTERNOON HIGH
TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY ONLY WARM INTO THE UPPER 50'S. LOW
TEMPERATURES BY SATURDAY MORNING WILL FALL INTO THE LOWER AND
MIDDLE 40'S. UNSEASONABLY COLD TEMPERATURES WILL PERSIST ON SUNDAY
AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE BRINGS RAIN TO THE AREA.
AGAIN, THE RAINFALL AND ASSOCIATED CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT ANY
WARM-UP AND TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE 50'S. THE NORMAL HIGH
TEMPERATURE FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR IS IN THE MIDDLE 70'S AND THE
NORMAL LOW TEMPERATURES ARE IN THE MIDDLE 50'S.

A SECOND COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION ON MONDAY AND BRING
ANOTHER SURGE OF COLDER TEMPERATURES TO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. HIGH
TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN REMAIN IN THE MIDDLE 50'S NORTH TO AROUND
60 SOUTH. THE AIR MASS BEHIND THE SECOND FRONT IS DRY AND DRY
AIR COOLS FASTER AT NIGHT SO OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPERATURES ARE
EXPECTED TO FALL INTO THE LOWER AND MIDDLE 30'S BY THE MIDDLE OF
NEXT WEEK.
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Got over 2 inches of rain last night
Not looking forward to this cold front...at all...
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Texaspirate11 wrote:Got over 2 inches of rain last night
Not looking forward to this cold front...at all...
The rain gauge on our brand new Acurite weather station that we got to replace the failed Acurite 5-in-1 weather station we had is still not working, so we got 0.00" of rain yesterday. One of the pups, however, is enjoying the water standing in the yard. :roll:

But yeah, I'm anticipating neither the extra rain, nor the colder temps we're expecting the rest of the week and next week.
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Got another 1.38" last night.

This morning was perfect PERFECT weather for my run. Cool, but not cold. The mist was refreshing.

I am NOT looking forward to the chilly weather ahead for next week!!
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The 12z Euro has a freeze for everyone in SETX Wednesday morning except for the immediate coastline.
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A large area of rain and a few thunderstorms moving across SE TX will make for a messy Friday morning commute. In addition temps are in the 50s across much of the area with gusty N winds. The rain will gradually move out of SE TX this afternoon as the temps continue to gradually lower. Expect lows in the 40s tonight and Saturday night with highs in the 50s. A Small Craft Advisory Galveston and Matagorda Bay’s and Gale Warning’s for the offshore from 10AM today until 10AM Saturday. ain returns Sunday into Monday with even colder temps next week. From the Houston-Galveston NWS:

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

More rain is expected Sunday and Monday as an area of low pressure moves up the coast. A strong cold front will cross the coast on Monday and bring some of the coldest air of the autumn into Southeast Texas. Low temperatures could fall into the 30`s on Tuesday morning but temperatures could fall into the 20`s on Wednesday morning, especially Northeast of a madisonville to Conroe to Liberty line.
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This was made out to be a bad storm last night on the news and "one of the worst commutes" but this looks like it's already about blown through.
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Drier air is filtering in as cold air advection continue throughout the day. I don't see much of a chance of breaks in the clouds throughout the weekend, but we likely will have a 36 hour break in any measureable rainfall before a Coastal Low develops near Brownsville Saturday afternoon/evening and begins to move up the Texas Gulf Coast into Sunday/early Monday as the very strong Artic Front marches across Texas and off the Coast early Tuesday Morning.

Saturday night into Sunday looks wet and potentially stormy with some elevated low topped thunderstorms possible along and N of a warm front close to the Coast. Thunderstorms could become more numerous along that warm frontal boundary across our Coastal tier of Counties and Offshore. Gale Warnings will continue into tomorrow morning across the offshore waters with wind advisories along the Coast. The remain some uncertainty in the exact track of that Coastal Low, so higher rainfall totals of near 2 inches + are possible where the heaviest rainfall develop and storms may train.

Sunday into Monday night may bring a bout of heavy snow across the Panhandle and lighter amounts possible for locations on East toward N Central Texas. The may be a brief shot of rain/snow mix across the Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex into the Piney Woods of NE Texas before much drier Artic air arrives Monday ending all rain chance by Tuesday.

Very cold temperatures are expected for mid November early to mid next week. The shot of cold modified Artic Air is rather deep and freezing temperatures are expected up to 850mb or about a mile up. Early morning low temperature reading may flirt with the upper 20's to low 30's Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday. The overnight ECMWF suggested a chilly 32F for IAH and upper 20's in Conroe. I will not be surprised to see a light freeze and possibly frost Wednesday morning and possibly Thursday morning IF we get completely clear skies across the Region. The old sub tropical jet may have an area of high to mid levels clouds streaming across the Area that could prevent temperatures from fully bottoming out in ideal radiational cooling. Stay Tuned!
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The clouds have broken nicely up here in Washington County. It's partly cloudy now. Still very windy though.
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The 18z NAM is wild.
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Cpv17 wrote:The 18z NAM is wild.
It's the NAM :lol:
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Storm Prediction Center has upgraded the Day 2 Outlook (Sunday) with a Marginal chance of thunderstorms that will extend into early Monday AM. As the surface low develops along the TX coast and moves NE, areas right along the coast could go from the mid 50s by the afternoon to the upper 60s/low 70s near midnight providing a chance for some supercells to develop along the coast in a very moist unstable air mass.

Day 2 Convective Outlook
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1121 PM CST Fri Nov 09 2018

Valid 111200Z - 121200Z

...THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE MIDDLE
AND UPPER TX COAST...

...SUMMARY...
A few strong thunderstorms may develop along the upper Texas coast
Sunday night.

...Upper TX Coast...

Late-evening water vapor imagery depicts a split flow regime over
the western US with a distinct southern current extending across the
southern Baja Peninsula into northern Mexico. As upper ridging
builds north along the Pacific coast it appears a weak disturbance
will eject northeast within the southern current toward
south-central TX late in the day2 period. This feature is expected
to induce a weak surface low over the western Gulf Basin that should
lift north toward the middle TX coast during the latter half of the
period. While 10/00z short-range models suggest maritime tropical
air mass will struggle to advance inland, there is some concern that
portions of the middle-upper TX coast may have boundary-layer
recovery such that surface-based buoyancy will evolve ahead of the
short wave. Forecast soundings from near Palacios to Galveston
exhibit substantial SBCAPE with near 70 dew points. There is some
concern that a few supercells could evolve after midnight within a
strengthening warm advection regime. If mT air mass does advance
inland then the risk of severe wind gusts or even a tornado will
increase with any supercell development.
However, this risk should
be limited to the immediate coastal portions of the upper TX coastal
region.


...MAXIMUM RISK BY HAZARD...
Tornado: 2% - Marginal
Wind: 5% - Marginal
Hail: <5% - None

..Darrow.. 11/10/2018

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As the surface low ejects NE, it will bring in some very chilly temperatures for this time of the year. High temperatures Monday & Tuesday may be in the upper 40s with lows Tuesday and Wednesday being near freezing... especially along and north of I-10 where places up near Conroe and Madisonville could fall to the upper 20s for a couple hours.

General thinking is much of next week should remain dry... however, NAM is probably being a little bullish providing mischief out in west/central parts of TX as it suggest another robust trough digs in late Monday night into Tuesday morning giving enough lift to produce overrunning... but not buying that solution as moisture will probably be pretty starved. Though, we shall see.
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Light rain currently falling in NW Harris County. This batch of extremely light precipitation should move on ENE and be out of the Region within the hour or so. Some light precipitation will likely develop in the very early hour tomorrow morning and continue throughout the day into tomorrow evening. A Coastal trough is attempting to develop near S Padre Island this afternoon and the current thinking is a Coastal Low will develop Sunday afternoon and move toward Matagorda Bay and on up to just S of DT Houston late tomorrow night into the early hours of Monday morning. The anticipated Strong Artic Front will be in the Panhandle around midday tomorrow and Winter Storm Watches have been hoisted for portions of Central and Northern New Mexico as well as portions of the Panhandle (Amarillo) where 4 to 6 inches of snow may be possible. A mixture of snow/freezing rain and just a cold rain look to spread into portions of West Texas near the Davis Mountains and into the Northern Permian Basin. A wintry mix may be possible from Vernon to Wichita Falls and possibly just NW of Dallas/Ft Worth before much drier air arrives Monday morning.

Freeze Warnings are likely Tuesday into Wednesday for portions of SE Texas mainly for areas along and N of I-10, but we need to monitor the trends as the Global Ensembles are running a good 3 to 5 degrees colder that the operational model output. Freezing temperatures are likely for Beaumont and Lake Charles as well.

The rest of the week looks chilly with some moderation Thursday and Friday, but another reinforcing shot of cold air arrives next weekend. At this time the next weekend cold air appears less strong than the Artic Front arriving Monday.
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The Storm Prediction Center has outlined a Marginal Risk for Severe Storms this afternoon and into the overnight hours for all of SE Texas. The primary risk will be hail in any elevated thunderstorms that could develop in the cold sector away from the Coast with a possibility of an isolated tornado in the warm sector along the Coast from near Freeport to Galveston and High Island to Port Arthur possibly extending to Lake Charles. There is a lot of uncertainty regarding just how close to the Coast the warm front may creep N and the exact track of the surface Coastal Low that is organizing along S Padre Island this morning where a Coastal trough is evident on Brownsville Radar. Keep a close eye on the weather as the day progresses. There is a lot of uncertainty regarding the sensible weather the next 12 to 24 hours regarding any severe potential.

The next item will be what happens after the very strong cold front passes Monday Morning and whether the cold upper trough actually sweeps across Texas Monday into Tuesday. Once again there is some uncertainty as the European model suggest the upper trough holds to our SW bringing high clouds across the area Tuesday into Wednesday. The GFS and Canadian are progressive with that cold upper trough and completely clear us out setting up ideal radiational cooling conditions and potentially a Hard Freeze to the N and NE of Metro Houston. Freezing temperatures are possible into Metro Houston and the colder suburbs possibly Tuesday and especially Wednesday mornings. Freeze Warnings may be regarded Tuesday afternoon, if not earlier.

I want to mention that the past several cycles of the NAM suggest the possibility of sleet near College Station and on E well N of Metro Houston Monday afternoon and evening. The NAM is attempting to close off a very cold Upper Low to our SW and throws some moisture over a very cold dome at the surface suggesting some wintry mischief Monday night into Tuesday just inland from the Coast from near Corpus Christi on NE. That solution is an outlier at this time, but HGX did mention it in there morning Area Forecast Discussion but did not bite on that scenario at this time.
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