Weather Reports?

[GoMeanGreen1999]

My grass is now frozen where as before this evening was just wet. Our trees are covered and 380 to Denton has been sanded on the bridges all day. With the more moisture that is supposed to fall tonight, I am sure it will be icy in the morning as far as bridges are concerned.

[MeanGreen61]

Mid 70's here today Mid 40's & rain for most of the coming week

[Keith7]

I don't understand, i'm in Gainesville right now, and they have shown that freezing rain has been here for the past 2 hours, but i've yet to see it..

[CaribbeanGreen]

I don't understand, i'm in Gainesville right now, and they have shown that freezing rain has been here for the past 2 hours, but i've yet to see it..

Likewise... in Plano/Frisco area now, and they keep talking about how much we've gotten, it's right on us, etc.... NOTHING.

[UNTFan23]

Snowing right now in NW Ark ... which is better then sleet and freezing rain.

[FirefightnRick]

For those of you that stayed inside today, your local emergency workers thank you.

Many of the bridges are ice rinks and have been since early yesterday(Sunday) morning, but got really bad after sundown. And even though there may be several firetrucks, ambulances and P.D. cars present with 3 lanes cut down to one people still seem hell bent on driving 60mph within feet of us while we work. We have been getting run ragged for 18 hours now. Although nearly hit multiple times we've been lucky. Other crews have not been so lucky. As of 10 p.m. we are now running with chains on. Every emergency worker in the city right now is up against it, all ambulances are now strickly running priority 2(non emergency due to concerns of safety on the ice) and the system is being taxed to it's edge out on the highway's for absolutely no reason other than pure negligence and stupidity.

Rick

[JayDub]

I had never seen what happened in the weather on Saturday. Being a pilot I follow the weather some.

What happened is the reverse of what happens in the summer with thunderstorms. In the summer, the rain falls and carries the cooler air above to the ground, cooling everything off.

Saturday, there was a “temperature inversion” meaning the air temperature at higher levels is higher then on the ground. (the norm is for the temperature on the ground to be warmer then the temperatures aloft)

So what happened is heavy rain fell from the higher altitudes and forced the warmer air to the ground. Several cities were below freezing before the rain and above freezing during and after the storms.

Isn't science neat!?

It's just enough to really really screw up an airline's day.

I don't understand, i'm in Gainesville right now, and they have shown that freezing rain has been here for the past 2 hours, but i've yet to see it..

If the temperature is reporting at or below freezing and there is precipitation, it will likely report as freezing rain...

[GoMeanGreen1999]

121 and I35 are both passable if you go around 20 - 25mph. My driveway and streets in our neighborhood have sheets of ice on them. Have no idea if I am going into the office today. I guess I might attempt it as the day light comes up.

[UNTflyer]

Definitely worse today than it was over the weekend. Up here in Denton we now have 1/4- 1/2 of ice all over the roads.

I'm taking an ice day!

[eppy4life]

Anyone in the Lewisville area know how the roads are looking now?

[GoMeanGreen1999]

Anyone in the Lewisville area know how the roads are looking now?

I tried to drive to my office in Lewisville. I stopped to get a coke at the convient store in Denton and a Police officer told me to "go back home" when I inquired how I-35E south was. He said he didn't believe that I-35E or I35W had been sanded and that they were horrible to drive on. Needless to say, I came back home.

[UNTflyer]

I 35 is now just wet and slushy, with small patches of ice on bridges and shady underpasses. I just got into the office in downtown Dallas driving from Denton.

[FirefightnRick]

Took me two hours to make the 35 mile drive home this mornng. 5 Jacknifed 18 wheelers had both directions at the I 20/I 30 merge west of Fort Worth completely blocked. I went off road to get up to the side service road to get around it.

THE END OF STUPIDITY

You know how the commercial goes, about the guy actually finding the end of the internet? This morning a co-worker found the END OF STUPIDITY, or rather the end of the length of it I guess? My coworker drove out ahead of me west, then south on 377 towards Granbury and calling me to give updates on the roads. When he got just south of Benbrook there's a grade uphill and down that leads into Whiskey Flats. He called and said, "Your never going to guess what I'm driving behind?". I asked what? He said there was a guy on a motorcycle with both feet dragging on the ground with the bike slipping out from under him, one side then to the other and he was just able to keep it up without falling, and refused to pull over to let anyone by.

Job Security.

Again, if you DON'T have to be out in it, STAY HOME!

Rick

Edited January 15, 2007 by FirefightnRick

[AnotherEagleFan]

For those of you that stayed inside today, your local emergency workers thank you.

Many of the bridges are ice rinks and have been since early yesterday(Sunday) morning, but got really bad after sundown. And even though there may be several firetrucks, ambulances and P.D. cars present with 3 lanes cut down to one people still seem hell bent on driving 60mph within feet of us while we work. We have been getting run ragged for 18 hours now. Although nearly hit multiple times we've been lucky. Other crews have not been so lucky. As of 10 p.m. we are now running with chains on. Every emergency worker in the city right now is up against it, all ambulances are now strickly running priority 2(non emergency due to concerns of safety on the ice) and the system is being taxed to it's edge out on the highway's for absolutely no reason other than pure negligence and stupidity.

Rick

You are greatly appreciated for the work that you do.

[gksmith]

My experience was fun this morning going home from work.

1. My doors were frozen shut. I had to pull hard to finally open the driver door. Before I left work, one of the guys who was supposed to relieve me called for the same thing. I talked with him this afternoon. He had to take a tennis shoe to break up the ice around his car door.

2. I spent about 15-20 minutes trying to open enough holes in the ice on my windshield so I could drive. I stopped a couple of times on the way home to further clear more ice.

3. There is always some IDIOT on the road close to you and he was close to me. He was DYING to drive a lot faster then everyone else. I slowed down enough to let him get far enough ahead so when he slid into a ditch/car/guard rail I would be able to avoid him.

Fortunately, this afternoon the roads a much better. No ice, all dry (for the most part) and not as many hazards as there were at 6AM when I was experiencing all of the above.

Still colder then a well digger's arse.

[runt96]

I GUESS ITS TIME TO GET THIS THREAD GOING AGAIN.

[JayDub]

Still colder then a well digger's arse.

The question is...how is it in comparison to a witch's tit?

[axis]

Wow, I totally did not see this coming. I woke up early because I'm trying to get in this class, I open the door to leave... What the hell...

I really should check the weather forecasts more often.

[untgirl04]

North Texas campus is closed for the day. It's still snowing and sleeting here in Lewisville, at 9:21 AM. Roads are pretty icy, judging from the view out my window at SH 121. If you have to drive, please be careful.

[Coach]

There was some snow in Abilene. It hasn't been above freezing since Friday, so conditions weren't that good anyway. Our school was cancelled for the day and I am pissed because we really need to have basketball practice, and we already missed one practice on Monday. The way they are cancelling school, I think we will wrap up this school year the week before two-a-days start.

[MeanGreengdub]

I'm at 35e and loop 288 and 35 is moving a lot better than it was at 8:30am this morning. Most of the snow in the parking lot is now slush but the cars are still covered with snow.

[runt96]

It sounds like we're going to dealing with this crap for the rest of the week. Y'all be careful, drive slow, people are sliding all over the place.

[GBarksdale]

Unbelievable -- Texas is getting pounded by winter weather, meanwhile the mid-Atlantic was (until yesterday) basking in 70 degree spring-like weather. This global warming thing is confusing.

[AustinTalon]

Haven't been at work since Friday — we're getting cabin fever. It's finally going to get above freezing today (as in 33-ish).

More Austin ice photos

[Keith7]

long live christmas break '06-'07!!