January 2024

[DoctorMu]

It's snowing in Dallas and 15°F.

[TexasBreeze]

During the day especially with the sun out in southern areas, the cold air slows down and even rises a few degrees, but once the sun sets, it should lower at a quicker rate.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

Freezing drizzle and light sleet in Weimar

[MontgomeryCoWx]

Wife says it’s a light freezing rain shower now.

[DoctorMu]

S2K is reporting outages in DFW already. Jeezus - 5 flakes, 15°F and ERCOT begins to crumble..

[don]

I think Houston proper won't have any issues with freezing rain until overnight/tomorrow. The northwestern portions of Harris County may see freezing rain as early as this evening though. Once the sun sets those temps are gonna drop fast.

[Philiput]

Let’s not stoke fear, the grid is currently fine, currently 9000mw of reserve. ERCOT is not crumbling. You can always check for yourself. https://www.ercot.com/

[suprdav2]

Temps here in Cypress bottomed out at 34 this morning, and climbed up to 44 currently with off and on sunshine. Shrug.

[christinac2016]

Woodlands is at 42 with sun.

Neighbors to the east (Louisiana) are around freezing with “a bit of ice this afternoon.” Just found that a little funny - how they described it.

[dp6]

Awesome! Yes, instead of staying flat, temps at the Sugar Land, Hobby, and Hooks stations have jumped to several degrees above predicted highs (47 vs 41 for Sugar Land.) Hopefully that trend continues and we get above freezing for much of the daytime Mon and Tue. Don't need ice issues and power outages.

[Stratton20]

dp6 yeah thats not likely going to happen

[Cpv17]

The temperature gradient across the area is really bizarre. Like the cold air forgot to come with the front.

[dp6]

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.p ... 2902693177

Sugar Land

Tonight's low 34
Mon 38/25
Tue 36

"Little or no ice accumulation expected."

[Stratton20]

Im generally expecting highs in se texas to pretty much stay below freezing all day tommorow due to ice being on the ground, we may get lucky and flirt with freezing on tuesday, wednesday after noon we should climb above freezing, nothing thay falls overnight- tommorow will melt until wednesday afternoon

[djmike]

Front passed early morning in beaumont and we are at 55 now and climbing as the sun shines.

[brazoriatx]

Warm 52 degrees here...lol with shorts it's really nice

[Stratton20]

The really cold air doesnt start moving in until tonight, thats very typical with arctic fronts so dont let the climbing temps fool you, that 2nd push is what should put most of se texas below freezing for 24-36 hours, I expect travel problems starting late this evening or tommorow morning

[Cpv17]

Warm 52 degrees here...lol with shorts it's really nice

Weird how places just an hour or two away are 20-25° colder

[don]

The temperature gradient across the area is really bizarre. Like the cold air forgot to come with the front.

It's because the front stalled right offshore, which puts a temporary pause on the filtration of cold air advection. This was already forecasted to happen though. That's why HGX mentioned the potential for a bust in temps today depending on where exactly the front stalls. Temps will drop quickly once the sun goes down though. The HRRR seems to be doing a good job handling temps so far today. The 18Z HRRR has the freeze line reaching the I-59 corridor around midnight tonight.

For the central counties, this will be mainly a Monday event. Northern and western counties though may see problems starting tonight.

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[DoctorMu]

The temperature gradient across the area is really bizarre. Like the cold air forgot to come with the front.

Not here. It's 25°F. I was covering an outside faucet, and yes I just saw a few teeny, tiny snowflakes.

The freeze line is near Columbus to Prairie View to north of New Waverly.