Witness Protection Program

Hmmm, based on the Wundermap radar (stitched together?) it should hit me soon. Not hearing anything at the moment. So how does Wundermap have radar and the new and 'improved'(?) NWS radar product doesn't? Does Wundermap just do a better job of stitching together and projecting from radars surrounding the down DFW site? They both use the same radar sites, correct? And just as I type this, big hail hits the roof. Edit: Sounds bigger than it looks. Maybe pea to marble so far. Only lasted a minute then just a good downpour.

Thunderstorms on the north side of DFW. Welcome back, thunder! I see the NWS' DFW radar is down, once again. It works really great, except when it rains...Good thing they had that preplanned 2-week maintenance outage last month. "Heck of a job, Brownie!"

Supposedly the initial botch by ERCOT, waiting too long to start rolling blackouts, damaged both generating plants and parts of the grid. Add in the supply issues and they have to be very careful with the grid now, load balancing is critical. Having it go down completely would be 100 times more disastrous than the current terrible fiasco. That said, we've slowly improved from less than 2 hours total power per day to about 40% on, 60% off. The outage gaps down from 11 hours to under 4 hours the last 3 times. Enough time on each return (1.5-3 hours) to rewarm the house and where the lowest temps inside during outages are getting progressively higher. They are making progress, hang in there. I know it's really awful for many.

Yes, I heard sleet for about a minute and then freezing rain ever since, here on the north side of DFW. This sucks, I don't want power outages. Edit: And now that I've posted, we've thankfully started getting swirling flakes instead of the freezing rain that was falling fast at a 45 degree angle. Starting to get a nice dusting on top of the glaze.

God blessed North Texas, with his own hands Brought down angels from the Promised Land Gave us a hole, where we could dance If you want to see heaven, brother, here's your chance I've been sent, to spread the message mmmmm Bust North Texas

Currently the only part of Texas not predicted to freeze in the next week is Port Isabel and S. Padre Island. Even Brownsville is too far inland, Port Mansfield too far north.

Um, no. I'm certain that Galveston Bay will not freeze over.

This just in: Reynolds Wolf is the worst phony to ever blather on TWC. Thankfully I taught my remote to automatically mute as soon as it recognizes his voice.

Looks like some bureaucratic idiot decided this would be a great day to eliminate the summary graphics on the front page of each NWS forecast office. Don't see any on Austin-SA, Houston, or DFW, despite potential severe weather today and more rounds this week. Those were quick, simple, easy, and very informative. Maybe similar is buried in one of their bazillion links, but I couldn't find any in a quick search. Just ridiculous. https://www.weather.gov/ewx/ And to be honest, lately several of the offices have been slow to update their forecasts. Things the local TV weather pages would be predicting that wouldn't show up on NWS local forecast pages until much later. Go to bed trusting the NWS forecast of no rain tomorrow while the TV mets were calling for it all day, only to wake up and NWS finally added it in. And always amusing to see things like the NWS page show current temp of 83 at 11am while the forecast continued to show high of 77 (and no front had passed that day.) NWS is turning into the Post Office.

SPC upgraded today's Convective Outlook from marginal to slight in CenTex. Added a Tor Watch until 5pm.

You can already see the lightning show from Fort Worth. 60+ miles away.

Dueling 'news' rooms: (and check out that shadow) That was in response to ABC13 in Houston running with the EF-2 claim for a few hours now.

5 minutes of drone footage: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/04/23/aerials-drone-footage-from-onalaska-shows-the-trail-of-destruction-left-by-tornado-wednesday/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=kprc2

I see that at 7:57pm the NWS extended until midnite the tor watch for several counties north of Houston, and now storms are developing over and east of Lake Livingston, just south of Onalaska. A second round possible?

Less than 100 miles to Mississippi, ye of little faith.

Looks like it, but we'll find out tomorrow that the levee broke, Shep.

Not according to Google Maps traffic. It looks to have passed 1 to 1.5 miles north of town.

About to pulverize Purvis.

^^^^ No. And the storm southwest of Houston just got a tornado warning. Headed east towards W. Columbia. https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=hgx&wwa=tornado warning

The ol' Nacogdoches/Natchitoches conundrum. One, the other, or both?

Town name checks out.

Looks like it passed north of Clemson Univ? Though of course the campus is closed because of the Wuhan Flu.

5 current tor warns along the line from SC to FL.