February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins

[DoctorMu]

18°F with 14°F DP. Very light snow/sleet. Getting dry slotted mostly.

But the mother lode is heading our way from the SW. Fingers crossed.

[dp6]

Feeling better about getting 5 plus inches up here. That snow shield approaching SA/Austin is going to intensify here with the gulf and unload.

It's already at a 2" per hour rate just west of San Antonio.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

Feeling better about getting 5 plus inches up here. That snow shield approaching SA/Austin is going to intensify here with the gulf and unload.

It's already at a 2" per hour rate just west of San Antonio.

If we got that we are looking at 6 plus.

[Stratton20]

2 inches per hour? Holy crap. wow!

[redneckweather]

Walked out to the road in front of my house and it is covered in heavy sleet...just south of Lake Conroe.

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[DoctorMu]

Feeling better about getting 5 plus inches up here. That snow shield approaching SA/Austin is going to intensify here with the gulf and unload.

It's already at a 2" per hour rate just west of San Antonio.

Bring it.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

That snow band headed this way will only intensify

[MontgomeryCoWx]

Looks like Jason is about to get popped by an instense band

[jasons2k]

Thunder snow is a rarity.

Makes Jim Cantore scream with joy lol

I’m Cantore on steroids. My first severe Winter memory was the 1989 December storm. I was 7. 70 and thunderstorms then temp dropped 45-50 degrees and had 6 hours of thunder sleet and thunder snow. It was wild.

I thought I’d never see it again but I went to grad school at Ohio State and saw it again.

I may again tonight.

Thundersnow at night is something else. I experienced it in Birmingham during the 1993 "storm of the century." It was eerie - the sound it made. I can't describe it really in words - it didn't sound like thunder usually does, and the way the lightning reflected off of the snow - it was like a flash of daylight and you could see everything outside, like the sun was out with a blue hue, and then shut off. That was something.

I did see snow in 1977 - in Tampa, FL of all places. One of the very rare occasions in which Tampa recorded snowfall. Lived the '83 freeze there too....not cold by Texas standards but devastating to the landscaping & agriculture down there.

You can imagine my shock after we moved to Savannah and I think it was 1985 and we hit the all-time low of 3-degrees. High was 17. The funny thing is I don't remember people doing a whole lot of prep work back then or hearing stories of busted pipes. Same thing up in DFW for the '89 freeze. All we did was cover the pipes, drip the faucets and call it a day.

[Kingwood36]

So it's only going to "clip our nw counties"? Wtf..I thought it was going to move off the coast not clip to the north

[jasons2k]

Yep, sad that WXman57 sides up with them and never gives us updated information in his home town board...did he have a falling out with KHOU?

I bribed him.

Actually, I just think he's busy. It's a lot of work to post on both boards. I know...

I understand...so hard to copy and paste...

Believe me, it's not that simple, especially if you have questions to answer, etc., and you are in his shoes. He gets bombarded so cut him some slack.

[tsb2107]

Sleet coming down hard in Spring.

[Rip76]

More “warm nose,” talk tonight?

[jasons2k]

I'm now having a combination of freezing rain, sleet, and snow flurries. Dang that warm nose is being stubborn. Have not seen rain in hours and suddenly here it is after 10PM and 26 degrees outside?!? What the...?

[Kingwood36]

That's what travis from 13 is saying

[jasons2k]

I'm assuming these snow flurries are being squeezed out of the lower levels below the warm nose.

Freezing rain on top of sleet is a nasty thing.

[dac]

I'm now having a combination of freezing rain, sleet, and snow flurries. Dang that warm nose is being stubborn. Have not seen rain in hours and suddenly here it is after 10PM and 26 degrees outside?!? What the...?

Seeing the same near 99 & Telge.

[Thundersleet]

A moderate sleet shower passed through this area of Baytown & lasted for approximately fifteen minutes if not longer that that.

[Karen]

Snow in league city lots of it

[DoctorMu]

That snow band headed this way will only intensify

Fingers crossed it can defeat the warm nose. Lots of sleet still at 17°F!

I'm counting on this because my wife's giving me a hard time about the lack of massive flakes we experience on Jan 10.