January: Calmer Pattern To End The Month

[srainhoutx]

Just W of Bryan via twitter reported to HGX

[HouTXmetro]

Looks like the temp fall has started to stall in the Humble area. I have been stuck between 36/37 for the last hour or so.

[wxman57]

I am looking at Doppler radar and notice snow west of Houston. I wonder if it is an error.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/feature?sec ... id=6665523

The radar may not be calibrated properly. It looks for certain reflectivity to identify snow. Sleet might be confusing the radar. Sometimes it's hard for a radar to differentiate the two signals.

[kitkat4me]

Question for everyone…

I am from Houston, currently in Canada, and have family still in Houston. My concern is how bad do you really think it will get tonight/tomorrow. Yes I have read the post, but being so far from my kids, even though they are adults, concerns me. Just being a mom, you can say. They are in the Sugar Land area of Houston.

Also, to me, it seems that every time we have a really bad storm like this one so far down the coast, that the following summer a Hurricane comes into Galveston Area. Is that just me not remembering correctly?

[Ptarmigan]

I am looking at Doppler radar and notice snow west of Houston. I wonder if it is an error.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/feature?sec ... id=6665523

The radar may not be calibrated properly. It looks for certain reflectivity to identify snow. Sleet might be confusing the radar. Sometimes it's hard for a radar to differentiate the two signals.

Thanks for the clarification. Sleet is melted snow that freezes again.

[South_Texas_Storms]

Andrew reports heavy sleet in College Station

Still plain old moderate rain here, but I am a couple miles southeast of the university.

On campus currently. A lot of it coming down.

I haven't seen any sleet yet and I'm a few miles east of campus. Weird how I haven't seen any yet and you're getting a lot of it.

[msp]

Judging my other posts and my backyard, the rain/sleet line in these parts right now is between the Texas A&M campus and south College Station. Still liquid here.

Looks like Herne is down to 30F though, so CLL should drop below the freezing mark soon and stay there.

[cristina6871]

Still mostly rain here in The Woodlands......I guess I would see the sleet. I want some snow flurries.

[Portastorm]

Checking in from southwest Austin where we've had occasional light to moderate sleet for the last 90 minutes. Back patio is iced over already and I could hold an NHL winter classic game out there at the moment.

Elevated roadways and bridges are all pretty much iced over here and that happened within 2-3 hours. Local media reporting there are three multiple car pileups around #ATX right now. A 9, 13 and 20 car pileup.

[srainhoutx]

21Z SREF suggests a good .25+ qpf across SE Texas overnight into tomorrow morning.

[Paul Robison]

Anyone have winter wx advice for me? Don't like sleet but I like the cold! Bring it on!

Like my message, srainhoutex?

[Kingwood31]

Think I'm gunna go threw all my hot chocolate and pop tarts before I see anything frozen..I hate this waiting game

[Paul Robison]

Think I'm gunna go threw all my hot chocolate and pop tarts before I see anything frozen..I hate this waiting game

Good 4 U!

[randybpt]

Looks like the dry air is winning the battle, some say this isn't the main event
Any models giving any info as when the moisture will move out. Bostwick predicted 1-2 inches here in Beaumont looks like a busy on the horizon'

[Paul Robison]

Looks like the dry air is winning the battle, some say this isn't the main event
Any models giving any info as when the moisture will move out. Bostwick predicted 1-2 inches here in Beaumont looks like a busy on the horizon'

When dry air wins the battle is that good or bad?

[srainhoutx]

Freezing rain reported at San Antonio International Airport.

[cristina6871]

I'm with some of the other posters........precip has stopped at the moment in neck of the woods. DP says it's still continuing.

[srainhoutx]

Sleet reported in Huntsville

[wxman57]

Just saw a comparison sounding from the 00z University of Houston's and models. The actual sounding has more of a sub-freezing area aloft than the Rapid Update Cycle model thinks there is, and the freezing level is closer to the surface than the RUC thinks. This increases the chance of sleet vs. freezing rain across Houston. This would still be a big problem for roadways as the sleet will cool the road surface more quickly than cold rain.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

Freezing line edging into MoCo