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The weather here in Fort Worth Texas was cold enough to need a winter coat all day long despite temperatures in the lower 50’s. The bone dry air and strong winds produced windchills 5 to 10 degrees below what the thermometer suggested, all in all, I am now under the impression that winters in North Texas are not anywhere near tropical in nature.
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Originally Posted by Isleofpalms85
The weather here in Fort Worth Texas was cold enough to need a winter coat all day long despite temperatures in the lower 50’s. The bone dry air and strong winds produced windchills 5 to 10 degrees below what the thermometer suggested, all in all, I am now under the impression that winters in North Texas are not anywhere near tropical in nature.
To get a near tropical winter in Texas, you have to go all the way down to the RGV. McAllen and Brownsville both hit 68°F today, and will be near 80°F in a few days
To get a near tropical winter in Texas, you have to go all the way down to the RGV. McAllen and Brownsville both hit 68°F today, and will be near 80°F in a few days
The forecast for the Houston area was slightly cooler than those two places. Today temperatures were in the low to mid 60s, and the next few days expect temps up to around the mid 70s.
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Originally Posted by Veritas Vincit
Just four areas with fairly reliable warm winter weather in this country:
And, of course, there is also Hawaii. But I don't really care too much about that island out at sea - with respect to the CONUS, there's a sore lack of reliably warm, or even mild winter area in such a huge territory. Outside those mentioned areas, all that's left for decent warmth is pretty much the rest of the area along and south of I-10 - this is the rest of the southern half of Texas eastwards along the Gulf to North Florida, then along the Atlantic coast to a couple of those Sea Islands.
Southern Florida at that. South of Orlando. Orlando generally is warm to mild most days of the winter (highs in the upper 60's to low 70's, with lows in the 50's and maybe upper 40's) but that city is known it get some chilly spells, and occasional freezes. I'm assuming you mean a frost-free climate and in the Southeast, you really can only get that below the 27N parallel in FL (even freezes have occurred quite a few times there but not every year).
Hey, we actually got a coating of snow yesterday evening! Very wet snow. Officially just 0.4 inches though we are a bit closer to an inch here on my side of town. Off and on snow showers are set to return this evening and continue into tomorrow. Maybe another inch of snow by tomorrow night, we shall see. It's been close to a month since our last good accumulating snow.
Hey, we actually got a coating of snow yesterday evening! Very wet snow. Officially just 0.4 inches though we are a bit closer to an inch here on my side of town. Off and on snow showers are set to return this evening and continue into tomorrow. Maybe another inch of snow by tomorrow night, we shall see. It's been close to a month since our last good accumulating snow.
I should say that amount of snow is the amount of snow that fell during the day yesterday. Factor in overnight snow, officially we got 2.2 inches. Around an inch at our house. About 10 miles to the northwest there is barely a dusting.
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