Snowstorms Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Impressive sleet/snow pack. The layer of ice ontop certainly doesn't help. Hoping it will melt more rapidly tomorrow but the nights look to remain below freezing all week with forecasted lows around 20 tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 About 20K people in ETX still remain without power tonight. Since Saturday night. Namely, Shelby & Nacogdoches counties, that have been "Ground Zero" for this 2026 ETX major ice storm. The outages jumped from 30K (early this morning), back up to near 40K. But those additional 9K outages further south in Jasper county (and east) earlier today may have been unrelated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiegeog Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 11 hours ago, Stx_Thunder said: About 20K people in ETX still remain without power tonight. Since Saturday night. Namely, Shelby & Nacogdoches counties, that have been "Ground Zero" for this 2026 ETX major ice storm. The outages jumped from 30K (early this morning), back up to near 40K. But those additional 9K outages further south in Jasper county (and east) earlier today may have been unrelated. My wife's family in Shelby Co is still without power. Been a long week over there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 9 hours ago, aggiegeog said: My wife's family in Shelby Co is still without power. Been a long week over there. I can only imagine how tough it is to stay comfortably warm. Especially when it goes on for days with the cold still in place in the state all this week. I was without power for only 2 days after hurricane Harvey (2017), and even that wasn't too comfortable either without A/C. 11 K people still look to remain without power in ETX tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 Looks a little interesting this evening with the ongoing severe risk and some more discrete clusters ongoing in S-SETX coastal region on the southern extent of the frontal convective line moving through ETX. Even outflow boundaries alone are producing strong gusts to 50+ mph in STX. Stronger support for lift aloft digging a bit further south in the state than usual (per Euro had projected all week) with the incoming SS trough. And this may also be an indication that ENSO has finally started its transition away from LN and hopefully toward the advertised warm/EN phase in the coming months. Which would likely make the upcoming severe season more interesting with the SS jet anchoring further south. Probably the bigger story today is rainfall amounts especially in NTX over 2" just in the past 24 hours with some flash flood alerts. Especially, considering we're currently in the driest month of the year. Very needed since over 90% of the entire state was already in some kind of ongoing drought status looking at U.S. drought monitor data on February 3rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinook Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 possible tornado(es) near Houston. This one was close to the radar at League City Quote ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR GALVESTON...EAST CENTRAL BRAZORIA AND SOUTHERN HARRIS COUNTIES... At 704 PM CST, a severe squall line capable of producing both tornadoes and extensive straight line wind damage was located along a line extending from League City to near Liverpool, moving east at 40 mph. HAZARD...Tornado. SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 Decent rainfall totals with the Friday - Saturday frontal system over the state, for February (being the driest month of the year). This should make some kind of impact on the drought coverage on this week's drought monitor update (that was nearing 100% coverage over the entire state). https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?TX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 New maximum daily rainfall records were set at DFW and Lubbock over the weekend, also. Both (old) records are from 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stx_Thunder Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago With the lack of sweeping cold fronts through early next week and subtropical ridging moving off to the Eastern US, things are already looking very interesting for a multi-day springlike (April/May) convective pattern over the state with MCSs or MCCs certainly possible. Starting later this upcoming week, to start March. Ensemble runs have been trending on higher rainfall amounts during the past week or so. Especially over CTX/NTX, up to 5 inches (even higher). Which is still way ahead of schedule for spring, just now entering March. So flash & river flooding will definitely be possible. Esp. with all the drought conditions of late. MJO is prog to head back into the latter phases with a new wave propagating through the Pacific in the coming week or so. Which will likely provide rainfall insurance. Esp. over Eastern half of state. Severe threat is bound to exist with this abnormal UL pattern setup with multiple, stronger shortwaves tracking through the state into next week. Especially near the 10th. Both Euro & GFS models and ensembles have also more or less, been keeping up on (increasing) shear values over the state. And even more persistent, steep mid-level lapse rates (7-8 C). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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