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The storm between Fort Worth and Hillsboro looks a bit ominous on radar.

This thread sure has been quiet lately. SPC has put the Ark-La-Tex region in a 5% tornado probability for later this afternoon (the 24th)...

It felt like early May outside today. High of 87. Tomorrow will be very similar, high of 85. I'm hoping we can get some decent storms out of this system coming later this week.

Definitely looks like Springfield will miss the worst of the storm, with the main part diving hard right to their south. And the storm is definitely winning the battle versus the weaker storms to the west.

That storm looks like it's rooted on the outflow boundary moving south. It will be interesting to see if it can clear itself of the storms to its west.

I tried a test-run of a GoPro time-lapse on my way to work this morning, thinking I might catch some good views with the front/storms moving through. I still have some things to figure out. Luckily, the views weren't that interesting, weather-wise. It was mostly light rain the whole way with a few heavy downpours here and there.

Well it looks like this afternoon was mostly a dud. One storm did get going fairly well around Lake Fork, with a severe warning tagged on it. But it never really looked that ominous except for maybe some hail. I was close to heading out the door to catch up with it before sunset, but decided not to. In hindsight I probably should have, I've been wanting to get more experience in shooting with my old GoPro that I haven't used much. The lack of low clouds in the area might have made for a nice show.

Looks like new storms are firing southeast of Dallas.

Keeping an eye out this afternoon. The 18z HRRR is hinting at a pretty substantial UD Helicity Swath sweeping through east Texas this afternoon/evening. Pretty much right along I-20 east of Dallas. I wonder if it is picking up on an outflow boundary being laid down by current storms in NE Texas, with later storms firing east/south of Dallas and latching on and riding it all the way to Shreveport? I stepped outside around noon and the atmosphere definitely had that feel to it. The sun is shining and it is 78/64 in Tyler.

I was hoping for some lightning and thunder overnight... but alas, nothing. Just a steady cool rain. If we aren't going to have any more winter, I'd at least like to get the severe weather season rolling around here.

Looks like a really nice week upcoming for East Texas. Boring as far as precipitation goes, but we'll be close to a record high in Tyler on Monday, February 6th. Forecast high is 83F and the record (1911) is 84F. *EDIT - Looks like the record high is for tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb 7th at 82F. The forecast high is 83F.

We ended up with 5.33" rainfall since this past weekend at my office.

At my office east of Longview, TX, we've had about 3.7" of rain measured in our rain gauge. The streams/creeks are just out of their banks. We may end up with a few more tenths to a half an inch today depending on if we get hit by any of the heavier cells that have yet to move through the area.

Finally seeing a couple flurries here and there in Tyler. Not going to get anything more than this it looks like. Congrats to you guys in DFW with the dusting.

You're still sitting better than us in East TX! Wintry precip to our SE and NW... Nada here.

The radar returns are lining up pretty well with Lake Ray Roberts, Lewisville Lake, and Grapevine Lake. Lake effect snow in DFW... who'da thunk it?

We all want storms/blizzards/interesting weather, that's why we are here in the first place. That doesn't mean we want to see it cause harm to anyone or their property. But that is the nature of the weather and there's nothing we can do about it except raise awareness and track it.

SPC mentions that the front is trending slightly faster, so the severe risk is trending the wrong direction, towards the east. Bummer. Hope that changes.

I hope I did this right and it's not time-sensitive, but I'm glad to see a Day 5 slight risk for deep east Texas. I'd like to see the system slow down a bit and move a bit farther west, but at least there's some interesting non-winter weather possible in my neck of the woods for Saturday: A cherry on the top would be a bit of wintry precip behind the front Sunday morning. At least we have something interesting to follow!

I would love to see some wintry precipitation around Christmas, as long as it doesn't mess with my drive to Iowa from DFW on the 26th!

I wouldn't start worrying until January rolls around and we haven't seen any positive signs. Wayyy too early.

I'm not a good forecaster, but does anyone see any hope at all for any kind of severe weather in the central/east Texas areas? The fall severe weather season has been a dud around here.

The rain has made it to far ETX, or at least parts of it. Getting a pretty good downpour here at work, but just a sprinkle back at my house. No lightning/thunder to speak of. *EDIT* Well, mother nature just made a liar out of me. First crack of thunder.

Heat islands. You can also pick out a handful of other cities; Shreveport, Omaha, New York, etc. And then there's the meat locker known as Amarillo.

We'll take it here in East Texas! My employer had only recorded 0.17" in September and 0.02" in October before yesterday/today.