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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?


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57 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Anyone make the commute to downtown via MoPac? Wondering when to head to the office. 

Yeah.  MoPac and the downtown streets are more-or-less fine.  

But getting to MoPac is a bear.  Loop 360 was worse than I've ever seen it.  

I'd say give it a couple hours for some other intrepid souls to help melt some of that ice on the lanes of traffic.  I think it'll be fine before too long, but right now it's pretty bad.

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Final Crisis Weather Report:

- Roads 8:30 21st ATX: Highways - great; Medium roads (main roads with lights)- not super; Residential streets - good until snow gets packed into slip/ice-- don't drive if you're not used to it until after lunch (treatments/some melting)
- Sun will come out today... when? Depends on speed of system moving out. Best bets are for maybe 3-4 p.m. so not a lot of solar melting. Temps expected to > about 2 but could easily stay below freezing if no sun. Roads should be good though later.
- Models did very well on this (they're getting better), almost exactly bullseye for Central/East/SE Texas. Called it very well with amounts, locations, including bullseye for Houston/SW LA.
- Clearup-melting by later tomorrow afternoon it'll be gone. For today, travel not recommended until mid-late afternoon for most non-residential streets. 
- Temps tomorrow get into the 40's again, so that'll be it for this one.

See you next crisis!

 

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got the date wrong. Math - who can understand it?
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And the squirrel on Cesar Chavez got it because he couldn't make up his mind.  If he'd dashed across the (nearly deserted) road, he'd've been fine.  But no--he had to stop in my lane and change directions four times, paralyzed by his indecision about whether to finish crossing.

Look, bud--it's icy.  I'm not hitting my brakes for you.  And I'm not changing lanes.  Particularly when I can't figure out what fucking direction you're going to decide to go.

But it's ok--all is not lost.  If you just hunker down in the middle lane as I drive overhead, you'll be fine.  In fact, you'll get a nice little warm breeze from my exhau . . . Nope.  Thunk.  Dumbass.

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10 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

See you next crisis!

So what, 2 weeks or so? 

1 minute ago, Ghost of LL said:

And the squirrel on Cesar Chavez got it because he couldn't make up his mind.  If he'd dashed across the (nearly deserted) road, he'd've been fine.  But no--he had to stop in my lane and change directions four times, paralyzed by his indecision about whether to finish crossing.

Look, bud--it's icy.  I'm not hitting my brakes for you.  And I'm not changing lanes.  Particularly when I can't figure out what fucking direction you're going to decide to go.

But it's ok--all is not lost.  If you just hunker down in the middle lane as I drive overhead, you'll be fine.  In fact, you'll get a nice little warm breeze from my exhau . . . Nope.  Thunk.  Dumbass.

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27 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

And the squirrel on Cesar Chavez got it because he couldn't make up his mind.  If he'd dashed across the (nearly deserted) road, he'd've been fine.  But no--he had to stop in my lane and change directions four times, paralyzed by his indecision about whether to finish crossing.

Look, bud--it's icy.  I'm not hitting my brakes for you.  And I'm not changing lanes.  Particularly when I can't figure out what fucking direction you're going to decide to go.

But it's ok--all is not lost.  If you just hunker down in the middle lane as I drive overhead, you'll be fine.  In fact, you'll get a nice little warm breeze from my exhau . . . Nope.  Thunk.  Dumbass.

Glad you got one of those snide bastards

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Getting a solid few inches of snow accumulation here in Spring Branch. On the roads its a half inch of ice and slush, and then an inch or two of snow. It's an absolute casserole out there.

Really fun morning though with my daughters first snow and my husky mutt going buckwild in the snow on our walk.

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1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Yeah its not blizzarding but def snow “storm” right now. Maybe 3 inches so far in heights. Lived in houston my entire life. Definitely most snow ive seen here

yep this a legit bonified snow storm, not what we usually get "squint and maybe you see a couple snow flakes". By far and away the most snow I've ever seen in Houston.

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35 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

One of the few wildflowers left in the yard.

An idea of the depth as compared to the 6" inch.

Faucet protection working like a champ.  Wife just snuck a peek outside, she says it is still coming down.  I'll update later.

 

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Tell me more about the faucet protectiom set up.

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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

Yeah.  MoPac and the downtown streets are more-or-less fine.  

But getting to MoPac is a bear.  Loop 360 was worse than I've ever seen it.  

I'd say give it a couple hours for some other intrepid souls to help melt some of that ice on the lanes of traffic.  I think it'll be fine before too long, but right now it's pretty bad.

My commute was fine.  My neighborhood streets were slick in some areas and the layer of snow/ice wasn't worn though yet.  But 183/Mopac to my office downtown was fine.  Most of the traffic was driving in the 45 mph range to play it safe, which was good to see.  

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