I just looked at the latest data.
It's like 9:00 AM on Thursday.
I mean, we got a lot of,
we've got a lot of frozen stuff on the way.
I mean, a lot more. We have more on
the way than we've already had, OK.
And we've been hovering for 37 hours.
We've been hovering between 26
and 29 degrees. So your point is
valid that you mentioned earlier,
this isn't anything like what we had,
you know, February 2021.
I mean, someone mentioned that
on the tweeter earlier.
I'm like, come on, Mandy, were you not here?
Hold it. And no one had power.
Yeah, it was down to the single digits.
And no one had power.
I mean, it's 26 to 29 degrees, which is cold.
And we do have a a coating of sleet
and freezing rain, which is not good.
But this isn't nothing like February 2021.
Let me show you this.
So I mentioned these warnings earlier
and and I I started with kind of that.
Now that's the the bad stuff.
Here's the fun stuff.
The kids are all out of school.
Brenya Thompson sent me this.
An ice shark spotted in Dallas.
Doesn't that look good?
The kids did a great job.
With that now, Keith Marshall,
it was 65 degrees two days ago.
North Texas, am I right?
Well, it was 70, Keith.
Two days Saturday.
Do you did you know that the
temperature Saturday we had 70 degrees.
So you're close. Look at this.
My neighborhood this morning. Sierra ray.
I'll step out of the the picture here.
Sierra Ray tweeted us this one, man.
Goodness. And look at this little one.
Vincente tweeted us this.
What a cute little one right
there sliding down the driveway.
Ohh, my gosh. Yeah.
Put the baby in a box, kiddos.
Having fun? No doubt about that.
OK, so there's the fun stuff.
Here's the here's the Not so fun stuff.
There's an ice warning that goes
into effect at 6:00 o'clock tomorrow
morning until 6:00 AM on Thursday.
Denton County, Tarrant County,
Johnson County.
All locations W ice accumulation
up to 1/2 an inch.
We still have the winter storm warning
in effect until 6:00 AM on Thursday.
That's accumulating sleet
and accumulating ice.
We're all under that until
6:00 AM on Thursday.
Here's another little batch.
But so moving through the Metroplex
right now, as you take it, this is sleet.
These purples here are sleet.
Remember the pink on the map?
That's freezing rain.
That's down around Cleburne right now.
And the West side of Ellis County,
the freezing lines to the east.
That's where it will stay until Thursday when
it finally moves back toward the Metroplex.
There's your freezing
drizzle and freezing rain.
Remember, that's the pink.
That's at 4:00 o'clock.
Here we go.
Watch this.
Check that out.
So it's just on and off as
we head through tonight.
Then it really blossoms.
Up as we head into the
day tomorrow.
There's midnight tonight.
Now watch this.
There's, there's the morning hours.
There's five tomorrow morning.
Here's 7:00 o'clock in the morning.
See how widespread it is?
That's freezing rain, freezing drizzle,
even some sleep mixed in.
Eight o'clock.
Nine o'clock, 10:00 o'clock.
Look at that.
Then we have a little bit of a
break around lunchtime tomorrow.
Then more just rolls back in
1:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Put a lot of pauses here just so you
can see the timing up here at the
top three in the afternoon tomorrow.
I mean, this is a mess.
That's what I'm talking about.
A lot more is on the way.
That's 6:00 o'clock tomorrow night.
There's seven tomorrow night.
Here's 8:00 PM to tomorrow night.
Now we go to midnight tomorrow night.
Here's the freezing line.
It's moving toward Dallas County
at midnight tomorrow night.
And then it's right in.
It's in Dallas.
By sunrise on Thursday and
then by 9:00 o'clock.
It's right there at DFW at 9:00
in the morning on Thursday.
So yeah, I mean the hourly temperatures,
we don't make it to 9:00 AM on Thursday.
That'll be above freezing for
the first time in 86 hours.
We hit 32 degrees at 7:00 PM on Sunday.
My forecast tonight, 27 tonight, on and off.
Freezing drizzle on and off.
Freezing rain and sleet, icy roads,
cold temperatures don't change
a whole lot 27,
remember.
26 to 29 we've been there for 37 hours,
so 27 for the low tonight.
Then during the day tomorrow we're
looking at a high temperature of only 31.
We'll warm up a tad tomorrow,
but we still don't make it to 33 degrees.
Icy day, a cold day,
and then finally the Sun comes out on Friday.
50s and 60s in my forecast on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday with a chance of rain.
All liquid precip as we
head through next week.
Meteorologist Kyle Roberts is here,
Kyle,
and one of the big stories that
everyone has been asking is why does
this always happen this time of year?
Well, Pete, I think you fancy
yourself as a savvy meteorologist.
Why is it always triple digits in August?
Can you answer that question for me?
Because it's winter, I mean that's,
that's, that's it's it's the
middle of winter. We normally
get winter weather events
this time of the year,
but it's not just this time of year.
Obviously we can have winter weather
events are something called recency bias.
The last couple februaries,
yes we've had winter weather events and
technically it's not even February by
the way it is still January right now,
but the last couple of Februaries
had a couple of winter events last
February and then obviously a couple
februaries ago you know what happened.
But before that we had a long stretch of.
Nothing really happening in February.
In fact, we've had some very notable
winter weather events that have happened
outside of late January and February.
Let me take you back to March 2015
where we had three to 7 inches
of snow across DFW 2013.
In December, if you were here,
you remember that that was
that cobblestone IC event.
In March of 2010,
there was 5 to 9 inches of snow
that fell across Collin County.
And then December of 2009,
we had that Christmas Eve Blizzard where
we had a ton of snow and even Blizzard
conditions across parts of North Texas.
So it's just kind of.
In the last several years that
we've had these winter weather
events late January into February,
but there's nothing magical that we've
gotten in some sort of pattern where these
things are always gonna happen in February.
You know,
it's just it's just the middle of winter
and this happens this time of the year.
But it also can happen at other points during
the winter as well and even into the spring.
As you can see there with a couple
of winter weather events in March,
we'll be back with more come
up here in a little bit.
In the meantime,
back to you guys at the desk.