February: Calm Weather To End The Month

[wxman57]

I'd gladly give yall your 60-70 degree weather for the majority of winter, if you can give me two prolonged 4-5 day freezes like 83 and 89 each winter.

Those freezes caused a great deal of damage across the city. Note that they each happened near Christmas when many were out of town. They came home to busted water pipes and flooded homes. Major water mains burst, causing water shortages across the city. Plants were devastated. Plus, I nearly froze to death. No thanks. No maybe if you offered 80-85 degree weather all winter except for one cold week...

[MESOMAN]

Heavy rain last night and this morning in Polk, Liberty and San Jacinto Counties. My mom picked up 3-4 inches and southern Polk got 7-9 inches. Flash Flood Warnings in effect of course. Amazing how a heavy rain event can occur in a localized area where a boundary sits in the same place for hours. Good thing that training event didn't set up over downtown last night.

[texoz]

Was living in Austin during the 1983 cold snap. I believe we had a good ice storm during that one? Spent most of the day hanging out at bar near UT campus, playing chess and watching the cars ice skate down the streets outside our window.

Regarding the storms today/tomorrow, anyone have a good guess when the t-storms might move through central Texas? There are some outdoor events this afternoon and tomorrow that I'm concerned about. thnx

[Portastorm]

Was living in Austin during the 1983 cold snap. I believe we had a good ice storm during that one? Spent most of the day hanging out at bar near UT campus, playing chess and watching the cars ice skate down the streets outside our window.

Regarding the storms today/tomorrow, anyone have a good guess when the t-storms might move through central Texas? There are some outdoor events this afternoon and tomorrow that I'm concerned about. thnx

Per NWSFO EWX, the "severe" part of this system will impact the Austin metro area some time between 5-10 pm tonight. Then, it is supposed to transition into a heavy rain event along and east of the I-35 corridor.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

I'm so warm natured that anything over 70 degrees is miserable... which is odd considering I'm only 195 lbs. soaking wet.

I was walking around in a snowstorm earlier this Winter in shorts and a windbreaker... It was 15 degrees outside. It simply does not bother me.

I used to run 5-7 miles a day in Ohio in single digit and teen temps and it was refreshing.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

.8 inches of rain from the heavy downpour early this morning.

I'm up over 9.5 inches of rain since the beginning of the year. Bring on more!

[MontgomeryCoWx]

I could care less about plants... I can replant in the spring.

And you can certainly winterize your house pre-winter and it doesn't take long. People are just lazy sometimes.

[djmike]

Awfully sunny with blue skies here on the coast in Sabine Pass....Rains quickly dissapeared from radar...Never even would think today-Sunday would be cloudy, wet and cold! Is mother nature playing a joke with me?

[MontgomeryCoWx]

fair enough...

and I do trip quite frequently in the Winter to cold climates. Cascades, Alaska, and New Hampshire/Vermont/Maine are some recent ones.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

when is this rain supposed to get fired up around here?

[srainhoutx]

Keep an eye on West Texas. The cold front is converging on the dry line as the CU field begins to pop...

[Ptarmigan]

Want some cold? Here you go! From WeatherSpark (http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=USA/TX/Houston).

First, the 1983 Christmas Freeze. Note that the graphics below are from Hobby Airport. It was colder in central and north Houston. Look at the high of 28 on the 24th and a low of 13 on Christmas morning. High of 27 on Christmas. And there were a couple of other hard freezes later in December. Central and northern parts of Houston were below freezing from Wednesday evening (Dec 21) through Thursday morning (Dec. 27th).

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Then there was the February of 1989 freeze. Hobby was below freezing for over 4 days:

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And the "mother of all freezes" from the 1980s, the Christmas week of 1989. Hobby reached 9 degrees on Dec. 23 with a high of 26. Look at the 23F for the high on Dec. 22nd! Man, that was cold!

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I remember the February 1989 and December 1989 freeze. The February 1989 freeze was a prolonged but shallow freeze. Before it happened, Alaska recorded the highest pressure in North America. The December 1989 freeze was deeper, but shorter.

[srainhoutx]

Oh my...

[MontgomeryCoWx]

damn and that's only 7 days out per the model... that's the closest we've seen on the models for a blast like that.

[srainhoutx]

lol...

[Portastorm]

Flash Flood Watch now hoisted for much of south central Texas with 1-2 inches of rainfall expected, isolated amounts of 3 inches.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.p ... lood+Watch

[djmike]

when is this rain supposed to get fired up around here?

Wondering the same here. It's been a beautiful sunny day so far here in Beaumont!

[djjordan]

Seeing some rain fire up in Ft. Bend county moving into the Houston metro area ..... keeping an eye out for some intensification and possibly heavy rainfall. I'm driving to Austin later today .... should be an adventerous trip.

[weatherguy425]

Keep those graphics comin' srainhoutx! Interesting that the GFS has been consistent with a very active storm pattern as well. Now all we need is the Euro graphic to verify.

[MontgomeryCoWx]

ECMWF and GFS hoppin' on the train to polartown?