[2014] Winter Storm... In Houston?

Is El Nino and global warming no longer valid?

Seems, it's getting hotter and colder.

 

Didn't you get the memo?

We can't say 'global warming' any more, because, well duh, it's not actually getting hotter like their computers promised it would. Now we have to call it 'climate change', because that way, no matter what the weather does, we can blame Americans!

 

wish summers were cooler. I could tolerate an 89 degree August.

 

Winter Storm Warning for Austin and adjacent areas of Central Texas:

 

Global Warming implies retaining more energy within the system (spaceship Earth) rather than radiating it out into space. At higher energy levels you have greater potential for energy exchanges causing more dramatic weather.

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Bring it on if it means heavy snow dumps in the Rockies

 

^ You can see the tropical storms every June-Oct

 

...TX...

MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH A SHORT WAVE IN THE SOUTHERN STREAM WILL
PRODUCE THE POTENTIAL FOR AN AREA OF FREEZING RAIN ACROSS A
PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TX TOWARDS LA...MAINLY
OVERNIGHT MON INTO TUES MORNING. THERE WAS FAIRLY GOOD MODEL
AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE OVERALL SETUP...SO THE FORECAST WAS
BASED ON A BLEND OF THE ECMWF... GFS AND NAM. THE SHORT WAVE WILL
INTERACT WITH MOISTURE TRANSPORTED INTO A COLD WEDGE... AS
BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPS WILL BE NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING. THE BULK OF
THIS MOISTURE WILL BE FAIRLY LIGHT BUT WPC KEPT A LOW PROB OF .25
INCH AMOUNTS JUST NORTH OF THE AUS/SAT AREA.

At this point, I think we are more likely to see a major event than an underwhelming one, at least here in Austin.

 

The bullseye in Texas is just north of downtown Austin. HPC puts the chances of getting > .10 inches of ice in Austin at 40-50%.

 

Spoiler

Spoiler for possible large image. WRF model of possible scenario in Houston area.

 

if its gonna be cold could it atleast ****ing snow. Make things interesting.

 

UT has preemptively cancelled classes until 11:00 AM tomorrow.

 

So basically the most miserable mixture of events possible.....awesome. I'm so done with this winter.

 

I can report a thunderstorm here inside the loop. I have never seen a thunderstorm in Houston at this temp.

 

Lol. Wow.

I'm near 290 and the beltway. Was watching television when I heard thunder rumbling.

 

Freezing cold and we're about to get something big. Lots of lightening and thunder inside the poop and the radar is already showing a lot of heavy sleet or freezing rain close to Katy coming this way.

 

I hope anyone thinking about getting on the roads thinks otherwise. The roads are going to get treacherous.