We have a chance for snow in Houston on Friday according to the latest forecasts. You guys think it will actually happen? Here's to hoping we get at least a few flurries and the entire city freaks out and shuts down.
you can't be serious. i even laid out by the pool on friday. it's going to snow exactly a week later?? cold weather blows.
I have lived in areas where it has snowed a lot ... I hate summers here in Houston , but i rather have decent winters w/o snow or flurries.
Make sure you take your heavy jacket tomorrow morning. Going to start off warm and then temps will plummet during the day. Windchill readings may be in the low teens by Wednesday morning. Friday is looking more interesting with each model run. In the long-term there's another arctic blast possible for next week with more winter precipitation possible.
Even Brownsville, TX has snow/sleet in their forecast. Brownsville has only had one accumulating snowfall in the last 115 years...the Christmas eve snow of 2004.
So, when the rockets get one fastbreak dunk in the 3rd quarter, do you know the outcome of the game against the Spurs? smh. Surely we are beating the Spurs! Did you see that DUNK!
Area forecast discussion National Weather Service Houston/Galveston Texas 328 PM CST Monday Jan 31 2011 ..slight chance of severe weather late tonight and Tuesday morning... ..Arctic airmass will move into the region Tuesday... Discussion... Arctic front should clear the cll area 6-8am and the southeast coast near gls by noon. Temperatures in the 60s at the start of the day will fall into the 30s and 40s prior to sunset. Winds will be strong in the wake of the front at 20-35 miles per hour with higher gusts. Will need a wind advsy but will let the midnight crew take care of that once they determine best locations/timing. Wind chills Tuesday/Wednesday night will be in the single digits and teens. Several cold days on tap as the Arctic high builds into Texas. Expect a hard freeze almost everywhere except the beaches Tuesday/Wednesday (and possibly thurs) nights. Daytime highs likely won't get out of the 30s. Medium range models still in good agreement regarding dropping a trough near the 4-corners Wednesday...into northern Mexico Thursday...then ejecting eastward into Texas Thursday night & Friday. Still some minor differences in timing with the GFS being around 6 hours faster than the ECMWF/Canadian. Will see increasing isentropic lift and moisture over the cold llvls beginning Thursday. There is increasing confidence that we could southeast some wintery precipitation with this system (most likely snow attm) as historically it is a classic setup for this area. Will nudge chances of precipitation up to 40% areawide Thursday nt and Friday with the eventual plan to pin down timing/quantitative precipitation forecast as it becomes more clear and increase chances (as warranted). Fwiw this far out...model based accumulations suggest anywhere from a trace to several inches. Gradual warming trend starts this weekend as onshore winds resume. Next front on track to arrive Monday. European model (ecmwf) has an even colder airmass filtering into the region during the middle of next week (1050mb high in tx)...GFS not so much (1030mb-ish). Hopefully the groundhog won't see his shadow on Wed!
Doubt it reaches over here in Beaumont (its only snowed enough to stick once as long as I've lived here) but I'd really like to see snow. Not a whole lot though, not enough to cause problems. Though I've never lived in a cold area and really have only seen snow twice, and it wasn't much snow at all either time.
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I am scared ****less of the predictions of 15-18" here on Tuesday night... My firm just sent out an email to take laptops home tomorrow in case the office is shut down on Wed.
