Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Here we go again.  This has been one wild winter for Texas and it isn’t over yet.  Snow began falling this morning across western and central Texas, including the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.  This is in response to a Pacific storm system interacting with another arctic cold front, bringing moisture over a cold dome of air at the surface.  Typically this would result in sleet or freezing rain.  But this winter has been anything but normal and all snow is expected to fall today across central Texas.  This is because true arctic air has invaded Texas again and it is deep enough to support snow.

Below is the National Weather Service forecast graphic for today from the Dallas office.  They are expecting about an inch of snow for the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.  Further south higher amounts ranging from 2 to as much as 5 inches of snow are expected, with locally higher amounts.

National Weather Service snowfall forecast for Tuesday 2/23/10

National Weather Service snowfall forecast for Tuesday 2/23/10

At my apartment in Shelton, Connecticut I received about an inch of snow overnight.  So once again Texas will top me in snow accumulation for the day.

Does anyone else find that very disturbing?  And might I remind everyone that Dallas received 12.5 inches of snow a couple weeks ago back on February 12, which broke the previous daily snowfall record of 12.1 inches set back on Jan 15/16 1964! What a snowy winter it’s been for Texas….

-Jim