It snowed like a mug here in the DFW area yesterday and broke all sorts of records. Needless to say, I'm snowed in, but got the days off, paid. link ... Greatest all-time calendar day snow on record set at Dallas Fort Worth... ... Record daily maximum snowfall for February 11th set at Dallas Fort Worth... ... Greatest all-time 24-hour snowfall total set at Dallas Fort Worth... ... Record 24-hour snow for February set at Dallas Fort Worth... Dallas Fort Worth Airport recorded 11.2 inches of snow for February 11... 2010. This breaks the greatest calendar day snow on record. The old record was 7.8 inches set on January 15... 1964 and January 14... 1917. Obviously... .this shatters the record daily maximum snowfall for February 11th... of 1.4 inches which was previously set in 1988. The greatest all-time 24 hour snowfall record was also broken from 4 am Thursday to 4 am Friday. The new record is 12.5 inches. The old record was 12.1 inches set January 15 through January 16... 1964. This also breaks the record 24-hour snowfall for February which was 7.5 inches... set on February 17... 1978 and February 25... 1924 Here's some pics of my house yesterday and this morning: <embed src="http://img18.imageshack.us/slideshow/smilplayer.swf" width="426" height="320" name="smilplayer" id="smilplayer" bgcolor="FFFFFF" menu="false" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="id=img18/45148396.jpg"/>
Mid February seems to be the sweet spot for amazing Texas snowfalls. It was Valentines day 1895 when Houston had its biggest snowfall of nearly 2 feet and Galveston had a foot. February, 1895 snow has never been equaled By Stan Blazyk On February 15, 1895 residents of Galveston County and southeast Texas looked outside and viewed a scene that was never witnessed before nor has been seen since. A blanket of snow measuring 1-2 feet stretched from the shores of the Gulf to the Pine forests of East Texas, making the entire region look more like the upper-peninsula of Michigan than Texas. There had been some hint of an unusual weather pattern developing the week before as an extremely frigid cold wave sent the mercury in Galveston plummeting to 15 degrees on February 7. The high temperature that chilly day was only 25 degrees, matching the record for the all-time coldest maximum temperature ever observed on Galveston Island. In the next few days, temperatures gradually warmed up to near normal levels, before another strong cold front raced into the area on February 13, 1895. The new push of cold air kept temperatures below freezing all day on the 14th. In contrast to the previous blast of cold air, however, dark clouds began drifting over the area from the west and southwest as the day wore on. Late on the 14th into early morning of February 15, huge flakes of snow began to fall so rapidly that that visibility was reduced at times to near zero and a thick blanket of snow began coating surfaces across all of southeast Texas. By the time the snow moved out later that day, 15.4 inches of snow covered Galveston and an amazing 20 inches of snow choked Houston and Orange. As the storm moved east the snow spread across Louisiana to New Orleans and eventually to Mobile. Even more remarkable were reports of snow depths of 30 inches in southwest Louisiana near Lake Charles. While this area has seen snowfalls over the years, some with depths of 4-6 inches, nothing has ever come close to the snowstorm of 1895. Considering how much even fairly light snowfalls disrupt life in the Houston-Galveston metropolitan area, it is hard to imagine what more than a foot of snow would do today!
I was so happy when they cancelled classes, I had an exam today which I was studying for....but... Only thing sucks, is that I have 3 packages from Newegg that are supposed to be here today. 2 of them are on time out for delivery....THe other is stuck in Mesquite, Texas and currently labeled as "weather exception". So, my I7 860cpu, mobo, 8gb DDR3 2000 ram, HD's etc are going to be sitting here with out a SATA cd drive to do the Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit install....
I didn't get any days off but was let out early. Here's a pic one of coworkers took of our office yesterday morning. Most of the snow is melting away now.
Snow is always pretty in pictures, but when you have to scrape that s**t off your car every morning, it becomes a gigantic pain in the ass.
Isn't "like a mug" a less profane version of... a worse word involving a matronly term and a naughty word beginning with the letter "f?" Snow at my house yesterday morning... Nearby park... After the melting began...
