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Winter in North Texas this time around?? My reaction is, "What winter?" Truth be told, we just haven't had temps under 30 degrees in Dallas all season long.......before tonight, that is. It's mid-January and temps have been more spring-like of late.
Something much colder by months end? Our Met Office seem to think so..
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However there is also a significant risk of much colder weather becoming established right across the UK, with snow in places and widespread overnight frosts
We have not yet had accumulating snow.. it's definitely been cold enough but a) it's too dry or b) we miss out on all the precipitation due to the hills blocking it all!!
Very happy with today's cold and overcast weather. A Winter Storm Watch has been issued for Saturday. There's also a chance of snow tonight. I'll believe when I see it though.
Since the 17th we've had a dramatic reversal of fortunes; went from famine to feast.
Up to the 16th we've had 0.7 inches (~18mm) of rain at Corvallis' (OR) official weather station north of town and I saw 0.8 even. That's roughly 25% of normal for mid-month. From then on 'til the present (1/19) 6.57 inches fell at the official station and an astounding 8.25 (or 206mm) fell at my house. Cities all up and down I-5 in Oregon, southern Washington and northern California have had similar or (usually) greater amounts. Our coast and Coast Range were particularly hard hit with torrential rain and winds gusting to 110 miles per hour (177 KMPH).
Even folks in the east side of the Cascades were not spared. Bend (OR) had 14 inches of snow on the 17th and 1.12 inches of rain the 18th. The numbers aren't in for today but I'll bet they saw nearly another inch.
The weather dudes and dudesses are forcasting another 5 to 9 days of this <insert favorite scatological idiom here> and are already posting flood notices for virtually all of western Oregon. It's too early to tell now, but we could end up with the most significant flood event since 1996...
This is my walkway. We've had a lot more snow since this photo and now the pile is well over 7 feet high and almost 5 feet wide. It's snowing an inch per hour now and another storm is moving in on Saturday with "significant snow accumulations", whatever that means.
NAO and AO are about to flip sign and go negative. GFS for several model runs has been indicating that a trought could set up in the eastern US for February. We will see if any of this is actually verified.
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Winter is finally here, wind last night was steady at 25 mph, frequent gusts at 40+!
Truth be told, we just haven't had temps under 30 degrees in Dallas all season long.......before tonight, that is. It's mid-January and temps have been more spring-like of late.
