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. Come up here to Michigan. We gots the snows and 10 degree weather. The UP had -20 with windchill yesterday.
THE THREAT OF MIXED PRECIPITATION IS LOOKING MORE LIKELY FOR MUCH
OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY.
HOWEVER, VERY LIGHT FORECAST AMOUNTS BY MODEL DATA CONTINUE TO
SUGGEST ONLY A MINOR TO MODERATE IMPACT ON TRAVEL.
SATELLITE IR IMAGERY IS PICKING UP THE ARCTIC COLD FRONT MOVING
INTO SOUTHERN OK THIS MORNING. THIS FRONT IS ON TRACK TO MAKE IT
INTO NORTHERN PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS BY AROUND DAYBREAK
WEDNESDAY. THIS LARGE DENSE MASS OF AIR WILL LIKELY SPILL INTO
TEXAS IN ADVANCE OF THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AS AN UPPER LOW DIGS
INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MOST OF THE HIGHER
PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL OCCUR DURING A PERIOD OF ISENTROPIC
LIFT AND WILL LIKELY FALL AS RAIN WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY
EVENING. THIS LIFT PATTERN WILL DIMINISH BY AROUND MIDNIGHT WHEN
THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE OVER TO A MIX. MOST AREAS
WILL HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE A MIX OF RAIN AND ICE PELLETS. WITH THE
NORTHEASTERN HALF OF THE AREA EXPECTED TO SEE FREEZING TEMPS AND A
POSSIBLE MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SNOW TOWARD DAYBREAK. WITH MUCH
UNCERTAINTY IN THE AMOUNT OF INITIAL RAINFALL EXPECTED, CONFIDENCE
REMAINS LIMITED ON HOW FAST THE AIR WILL COOL. HOWEVER, GIVEN THE
TRENDS IN THE MACHINE GUIDANCE IN THE HANDLING OF THE COLD AIR,
WILL TAKE A SPLIT BETWEEN THE WARMER GFS AND THE COOLER NAM.
WILL ISSUE AN SPS SHORTLY TO ADDRESS THE THREAT OF FROZEN
PRECIPITATION.
. Come up here to Michigan. We gots the snows and 10 degree weather. The UP had -20 with windchill yesterday.
that, I'm tropical.
Bring on old man winter!!
Woo hoo. Our week of winter has arrived.
I hope you Texans feel the fierce bitter winds of the nothern climates.
I hate cold weather.
Handy hint for all the wonderful San Antonio drivers:
If you hit ice on a bridge/overpass, do not jump on your brakes, bad things happen.
Would you like 9 months of 95+ degree daytime highs?
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from some mill in Wisconson
As the big freighters go it was bigger than most
With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.
The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound
And a wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,
T'was the witch of November come stealing.
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashing
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane West Wind
When supper time came the old cook came on deck
Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya
At 7PM a main hatchway caved in
He said fellas it's been good to know ya.
The Captain wired in he had water coming in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the words turn the minutes to hours
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They may have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the ruins of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,
The islands and bays are for sportsmen.
And farther below Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.
I love the cold weather. Just hate to hear about all the accidents though.
Either that or 5 months of freezing weather.
February of 04 I hit ice on 35 at abouty 6am on the way home from work. That was the time they didn't close the highways because our city government is really stupid.
It really wasn't a big deal. I let go of the gas, slid for a bit, then got traction again and proceeded on. However, that morning I passed almost 20 wrecks. People are ing stupid.
That would be kick ass if it snowed like last year.
I'll take the hot summers.
This isn't going to be snow.
You don't have to shovel the heat, you can dress down not up. You don't have to worry about the heat keeping you stuck indoors, etc...I guess.
Yeah, I know but I can only hope that it snows this winter.
Snow is fun. You can build snow forts...throw snow balls...make snow cones...make Frosty the Snowman...throw your little brother into a pile of snow...throw snow at your superiors...throw snow in front of someones door, and spray water on it.
I grew up with ice, wind and snow every year in Oklahoma in the Great Plains. I'll take good ole' SA weather any day of the week. Give me the heat, baby.
Forget that ...I lived in Chicago and I remember windchill of 81 below....I agree with Manny...Tropical!!!!
Yeah...I get my ambulance ran from one side of the county to the other for a minor Motor Vehicle Accident....
Same here although I was driving my Ambulance on 281S by the airport...I managed to get traction and get off the highway.To bad that SAFD had a truck slide into the gaurd rail...sucked for them that day...
I spent 4+ years in Ohio. Snow stopped being fun after the 1st week. When you're driving to work in it every day it's not fluffy and neat and fun...it's a pain in the ass.
There's a reason our normal temperature scale is in positive numbers. Negative numbers truly suck. Negative double-digit numbers suck beyond all imagination.
And then there's the wind chill.
I'll take the tropical heat, thankyouverymuch. People who like that North Pole obviously have had their brains frozen.
Great song that I don't hear much down here!
I grew up in Ohio and loved the seasons.
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