Here's the current record report for today's weather from the National Weather Service:
... Greatest all-time calendar day snow on record set at Dallas Fort
Worth...
... Record 24-hour snow for February set at Dallas Fort Worth...
... Record daily maximum snowfall for February 11th set at Dallas
Fort Worth...
Through 7 PM CDT... Dallas Fort Worth Airport has recorded 7.9 inches
of snow. This breaks the greatest calendar day snow on record. The
old record is 7.8 inches set on January 15... 1964 and January 14...
1917.
This also breaks the record 24-hour snowfall for February which
was 7.5 inches... set on February 17... 1978 and February 25... 1924.
Obviously... .this shatters the record daily maximum snowfall for
February 11th... of 1.4 inches which was previously set in 1988.
With the snow continuing... the snow total will increase. An updated
record event report will be sent later this evening.
It is due to freeze at about midnight and stay below freezing until midday when all that slush will freeze. I've seen Texas roads under a couple of inches of ice (usually from an ice storm though). I won't be driving on Friday morning...
Be careful!!Must be bad,when you get proper bad weather.At least you should be able to deal with it.A few flakes here and you'd think Armageddon had arrived!!
Well most of the schools have closed, there aren't any ploughs (plows), and few shops stock de-icer!
For the trip to New Mexico we had to go to a motor factor to buy de-icer, a scraper, and sub-zero screenwash!
Luckily it didn't freeze overnight, so the roads are technically "drivable" just very slowly.
Wow! Who'da thunk it. The white stuff that far south, Richard. Still I guess it could be worse, the U.S. east coast is really getting a hammering. We've had snow (approx 2') on the ground since mid-December up here and it got really cold for a couple of weeks or so. Thing is, we're geared up for it - I can imagine the chaos it must cause down in Texas. At least, it won't last too long for you.
Hark! Is that Manna I hear chuckling in the background?
Well most winters we get a sprinkling but rarely more than an inch or two. Ice storms are much more common, so they roads are usually clear by late morning- and the whole "late opening for schools and businesses" is a familiar thing in winter.
This time around most of the plane cancellations were simply because they hadn't allowed for de-icing time in the schedules. DFW stayed open.
G'Day Gents
Hee Hee Hee Hee, Ho Ho Ho, HA HA HA,OH NO Don't make me LAUGH HAA HAA, OH Sorry, I'm sorry (wipes tear from eyes) 30c again,just sitting here in a pair of shorts, crying, stop it , think of those poor B******* in all that snow, hee hee
If you go out in the snow tonight (sung to the teddy bears picnic) Take a Thermos of soup
Take it easy guys, I know how dangerous it can be out there in the snow
manna
Here's an odd statistic for you. Here in snowy old Edmonton we get roughly 2,300 hours of sunshine per year. That's not a lot less than Adelaide's. We do, however, have far greater extremes of temperature. While summer temperatures are frequently around 30C with the odd spell at 35C, and our winters are frequently around -20C. This year has been a doozy, though, when we almost beat a world record on one particular day. Only some place in Siberia beat us out by a mere 2 degrees at -60C. This week has actually been quite balmy at around -5C. That's almost tee shirt weather in these parts . I even had the "barbie" fired up this week. If variety is the spice of life, we sure get that here.
Since I laughed about the weather, you guys were having, the KARMA GODS have really got me back,first I had a nasty virus in my computer, which shut everything down, so we,ve had to wipe everything from the memory, except my pictures, then the car took umbridge to the hot weather, and has been boiling over every time the weather got above 32c, which is most of the time. So I'm sorry I laughed, and please tell your gods to leave me alone for a couple of weeks to recover, or I'll point the bone at ya.
manna
You know it's summer in South Australia when you put your sunnies on and burn your nose
. I even had the "barbie" fired up this week. If variety is the spice of life, we sure get that here.
