February 2021: Arctic Outbreak/Warmup Begins

[cperk]

Sorry about the orientation.

[weatherguy425]

Not to jump ahead, but overnight trended towards starting (at least) our next storm system as freezing rain across a large portion of the area. We'll have to see if models continue to trend colder with a longer duration of freezing rain Tuesday night and Wednesday.

[cperk]

Temps are still dropping down to 15.4.

[TexasBreeze]

Might as well jump ahead since maybe another winter storm watch could be issued for some areas if the surface air stays like an ice box. Not as brutal though.

[Sloth]

Long Point and Blalock


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[cperk]

Our high temp of 19 will bust we're sitting at 15 degrees.

[txbear]

Awesome coating of white outside. Been without power now for a little over an hour and a half at this point. Would presume part of the blackouts, but difficult to say for sure for obvious reasons. Gas fireplace is on. Will have an old fashioned campfire-style breakfast if things don’t get going here in a bit.

[Kingwood36]

Well it happend..just as the precip ended here in Angleton I has 3 TINY snowflakes fall..I call that a WIN!...SO when is the next ice storm?

[djmike]

Beaumont

[Snakeswx]

On radar it looks like precip has moved out of my area but it's actually still snowing here pretty good..

[djmike]

Beaumont

[Rip76]

Snowing pretty good in Friendswood

[art3]

15 deg in Westbury with snow https://twitter.com/aspronin/status/136 ... 71200?s=19

[Snakeswx]

I'm kinda amazed at how steadily the snow is still coming down... On radar the precip moved out a long time ago.. kinda thought it would shut off when that back edge got here but it's still snowing

[Cromagnum]

No snow. Lots of ice and sleet. Staying put for a couple days minimum.

[DoctorMu]

We’ve got a bigger problem. ERCOT said 15 minutes to an hour for rolling blackouts, but Center Point is apparently saying that due to excessive demand they’re having to cut power during rolling blackouts for longer than expected. Many including me have been out for hours so they owe a bit more of an explanation as to how long we’ll be out for and how frequently they’ll be shutting off. Apparently 12,000 megawatts of power is offline due to frozen wind turbines. Those who want us completely off reliable natural gas should take a cue and learn an important lesson in logic and reason from this event.

More than half of America is an emotion over logic crowd so don’t hold your breath.

TBF, wind turbines in the Dakotas don’t go offline. This is a walk in the park for those in Fargo or Minneapolis. They’re laughing at uss and how we’ll need Federal assistance for snow and cold. I had to explain last night to my post-doc from Europe that he did not have to show up for work. In Chicago this is just another Monday. Texans are I’ll prepared for real winter weather.

[Kingwood36]

Lot of ice...no snow

[djmike]

Honestly I think we dodged a bullet as far as freezing rain on power lines. Roads are covered in ice under the snow but as far as ice one trees and power lines, I see very little here in Beaumont. Entergy sent a text now for us that rolling blackouts will begin today. No outage duration. Thats scary. Power keeps flickering for past several hours. Im sure they are switching over to different grids or something. Im not a power guy. Lol. But we will start having blackouts here too.

[jasons2k]

It’s pretty but was hoping for more snow than that. Just a dusting on top of the sleet.. 15 degrees.

[Kingwood36]

What's this freezing rain for Wed looking like..if that happens it's really going to wreck the the power situation