Alright everybody good Tuesday afternoon,
David Paul with you here in the HU11
Weather Center TX is under the under
the gun to experience a significant
winter weather event especially
going into tonight and Wednesday and
that's when Central Texas and North
Central Texas could see you know 1/2
inch of ice or more with 1/2 inch
or more of sleet on top of that ice.
This is going to create in central and
North Texas a significant travel issue
problem on the roadways with icing.
Likely airports delays significant
at Austin Bergstrom and then at
the DFW with deicing planes.
And I understand from time to time
they've had full ground stops
up at the Dallas airport because
of the deicing situation there.
And also power outage threats will be
significant central and North Texas.
Because if we do end up with, you know,
getting more than 1/4 of an inch to 1/2
inch of ice on some of the power lines,
that's enough to add an extra £500 or
more to a power line in between the poles.
And that weight can cause the
lines to come down,
it can cause lines to break.
It can cause tree limbs
come down on power lines.
So what Central Texas is facing
the next 36 hours is significant.
And you have, if you have travel,
plans anywhere West of the College
Station area, West of Brenham,
toward Austin to Waco to Dallas,
and then W to Abilene after San Angelo.
Those are areas where I would urge
you to reconsider your travel plans
because you don't want to get out
there when there's an ice storm and
travel becomes not only impossible,
but very, very dangerous now locally.
Most of the Houston and Southeast Texas
area is not expecting any ice at all.
However,
our NW counties including Waller County,
Austin County,
Grimes County are under a
winter weather advisory.
That means there is a very slight
chance we could see a little bit
of icing if temperatures do indeed
drop to freezing or below and that
would be limited to bridges and
overpasses and exposed metal surfaces.
So you're in the advisory area here,
but I I think the threat there for
places like industry and newholm.
Waller and and folks up into Grimes County,
Navasota beat Eyes.
I think your threat there is minimal.
It's as you get into Washington County,
Brenham up toward the College
Station and then up to Madisonville.
You're included on the eastern
edge of the winter storm warning.
You've got a little bit of chance
of seeing icing there.
But I really think it's going to be
West of Brenham and West of College
Station and from Madisonville,
northwest of Franklin and then on
West to the I-35 corridor where we see
the significant icing threat developed
late tonight into tomorrow morning
and lasting through the day on Wednesday.
So expecting significant icing there.
That's what we're looking at here in Houston,
a cold rain for the most part,
but zooming out,
notice the the the darker purple areas.
That's beyond winter storm warning.
That's an ice storm warning.
That means that from Fort Worth
West down I-20 to almost Abilene,
they're expecting significant ice
accumulations of 1/2 inch or more.
And I just happened to remember a
younger me being stuck on this portion
of I-20 West of of Dallas Fort Worth
during one of these ice storm warnings.
And it's a place you do not want
to be on as the traffic comes
to a complete standstill.
You can't go anywhere.
It's cold your cars.
On ice and if you can avoid
this section of I-20 up across
North Texas starting now through
the overnight through tomorrow,
probably don't want to get back
up there until Friday when the
Sun finally comes back out.
I would seriously consider
avoiding that completely.
Temps across the state right
now Dallas below freezing at 27.
They've had a lot of sleet and
some freezing rain during the day.
Today often is at 33,
a degree above freezing.
They've had several problems earlier
today with accidents on the roadways there,
the bridges and overpasses.
Here's Houston at 40,
so we're well above freezing and
we're going to stay above freezing,
but further W to San Angelo
and Abilene Mid 20s.
Anything that falls there is frozen
and if it is liquid falling and
hitting those frozen surfaces,
you're going to get ice and
that's ice on the roadways.
Galveston has fog and there's
a dense fog advisory for the
Upper Texas coastal waters and a
fog advisory for Galveston Bay.
49 degrees in foggy in Galveston right now.
Bush at 40, Tomball 39,
but notice we're getting down to just
a couple degrees above freezing.
Brennan's at 34, Columbus at 34,
Huntsville at 35. It's Brenham to Columbus.
You know you're right on the edge.
I think that you're icing threat
there is low, but it's not 0.
So it's something that we're watching
and we have a crew that will be
spending the night tonight up in
College Station and be able to get
to Brenham or Huntsville or Columbus
if we do indeed see a little icing there.
These are current wind chills.
Feels like 33 at Bush.
Hobby feels like 35 Sugarland,
34 Tomball.
It feels like freezing at 32.
Right now there's downtown.
In a very,
very light mist and drizzle that
continues to fall across the Houston area,
but the significant precipitation
is here in this swath across
West Central and North Texas.
And then look what's heading into Memphis,
TN.
The Upper Mississippi Valley
is also in on this ice storm.
They'll see significant icing and
power outages and travel threats
there over the next 24 hours.
Across North Texas,
Dallas has had at times significant sleep.
The pink that they're now in or excuse me,
the purple, the purple that Dallas is in,
that is sleet.
So it's tiny little ice pellets,
frozen raindrops falling down across
the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex
right now. We've got some great video
on our website and we'll be sharing
it with you on our news broadcast,
456 and 10 of this, the heavy sleet
coming down on the icy roads.
Got a lot of drone footage to share
with you at 4/5 and six this afternoon,
so stay tuned for that. On the TV side,
the pink is where it's freezing rain.
We're seeing that across the this.
Northern section of I-45 ahead of
course the Canada Palmer to Dallas.
There could be some icy spots
beginning to develop there.
And then the I-35 corridor South of
Dallas to Hillsboro and Waco will I think
see significant icing especially later
tonight and tomorrow now in Houston.
It's just a very light mist.
We're not seeing any travel issues here.
There's Brian and College Station
Franklin just on the edge of a
little bit of a frozen mixture.
Temperatures holding at about 33 right now.
So you may see a little bit of.
Blazing on bridges and overpasses,
Franklin, north and West of you tonight,
Brian,
North and West of you tonight after Rockdale,
and I think it will be most likely
West of Brennan,
Western Washington County and then
out toward Giddings that you begin to
see the icing and travel issues on
the roads as we head into tonight and
especially going into tomorrow morning.
Big picture, this is the water vapor imagery,
our storm system.
The upper low is still out here,
but ahead of it we've got a very active
jet stream and that's bringing in
Pacific moisture and little impulses
and that will bring in another.
Impulse overnight tonight and
tomorrow so here's 12 this is midnight
going into tonight,
Tuesday night early Wednesday morning
we begin to see sleet freezing
rain developing to to our West.
Houston just a cold rain and then
going into Wednesday morning.
This is what I think things may
get bad for areas to the North and
West of the Houston area.
Perhaps from Brenham W Out 290 to
Austin that could become treacherous.
And then again from Franklin and
College Station West to I-35.
That's where I think the icing
will become an issue. The I.
35 Corridor Austin to Dallas may
be a complete icy mess,
and San Antonio is not left out of this.
They're also under the windstorm warning
they've got a possibility of seeing
icing and glazing on their roads.
Especially the high flyovers,
the bridges and overpasses.
We go into.
Wednesday noon, it's cold rain for Houston,
but we're above freezing,
still icy from Abilene to Dallas,
Austin to Waco tomorrow afternoon,
still icy.
I35 and that I-20 corridor may
become impassable,
if indeed this forecast for ICE does verify.
And then Wednesday,
Thursday morning cold rain by
the time it's all said and done,
1/4 to 1/2 inch of ice.
That's important because you get
up to 1/2 inch of ice if that
does settle on power lines.
That can begin to bring them down and bring
limbs down on those power lines as well.
So the ice accretion will be a significant
factor to watch in the power outage
threat across central and North Texas.
The next 48 hours closer view of our area
by 10:00 o'clock tonight we're in the 30s.
It's a cold rain still just above freezing.
College Station Brenham,
we go into Wednesday, 7:00 AM,
that's when we'll be near freezing.
So again, College Station Brenham,
you'll be just on the edge of the
possibility of seeing some ice
on those bridges and overpasses.
For Houston, it's cold rain.
Wednesday morning we go into
Wednesday at noon.
Pockets of moderate rain temps in the 30s.
What a great day to be able
to stay indoors if you can.
But again,
no icing expected in the Houston area
or for most of our county warning area,
5:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon
light sprinkles temps holding
in the upper 30s and low 40s.
And then going into Thursday morning,
more rain, more cold, but above freezing.
For Southeast Texas,
I think the flash flooding threat is low,
but it's not 0 because of the saturated
ground we've had across northern Harris
and southern Montgomery County, right?
In this area,
if we get a couple of inches of rain,
we could possibly see the
creeks react quickly and rise,
so we'll watch for that.
At the moment they're all falling,
and again, the flood threat is slight,
but it's something we'll keep
an eye on as we move forward.
As far as our local area,
Southeast Texas,
from Brenham to Galveston,
the worst of it as far as a slight
chance for ICE will be confined
to the Northwest counties,
Brenham to College Station.
A light glaze is possible there,
but remember.
Just West of that,
it could get really bad really quickly,
so travel is not recommended.
From Brenham to College Station and
north and West of there the main
concern will be slippery roads.