As you can see,
the stadium is jam packed.
There's thousands here weathering the
sub 20 degree temps. It's so cold.
The fountain drinks froze.
They couldn't sell fountain drinks.
You get a beer like me.
The beer froze by the time I,
like, started drinking it.
Listen, he's bundled up, though.
We brought him looking good out there.
I know, right?
He's got a ski jacket on WF's Matt
Howerton rooting on his alma mater,
Baylor, at the Armed Forces Bowl yesterday.
You heard him mention drinks were frozen.
He was not being dramatic.
That is how cold it is.
And if you do have
to head out this morning, layer up.
It's going to be even colder this morning.
Thanks for being with us.
I'm Kara Sewell. And I'm Cleo green.
And from Mark is took.
Meteorologist Maria Luis is in
for Greg this morning, buddy.
Else, I guess.
How long is it safe to be? Outside.
That's a tricky question.
So any exposed skin whenever you
have sub-zero temperatures can
cause can can have some frostbite,
5 to 10 minutes. Wow.
So really if you're doing anything outdoors,
if you can avoid that today,
it's a good option, absolutely.
It's the wind that's really the dangerous
part because that is what brings
down the wind chill significantly.
So as long as you're covered up,
we talked about the wind chill yesterday,
and if you're looking for that explainer,
it's on wa.com we have this thin layer of.
It's warmth right above our skins.
And anytime the wind picks up,
it kind of takes it away.
That's why we talk about a
wind chill very often.
And this morning the wind chill is
sub-zero across all of North Texas.
That's why there is a wind chill
advisory in place right now,
11 degrees at DFW Airport.
But it actually feels like -, 6.
It's very dry out there and it's
still on the windy side, winds out of
the north and West about 10:20 mph.
So yeah, you.
If you have to be outdoors,
you want to make sure you
are completely covered up,
you wanna make sure to cover your head,
make sure to cover you know,
long sleeves, gloves,
you want to make sure to wear that scarf.
Anything you can do to really limit your
skin's exposure to the conditions outdoors.
And again, that wind advisory is in
place because wind chills this morning
at one point did get down to about -,
12 to 13 and that is in some
locations closer to the Red River,
a few locations.
Actual temperatures though 12
degrees and Wiley, 11 and.
Rockwall, Mesquite and Terrell,
about 11 degrees in Kaufman,
12 degrees for Grand Prairie Arlington,
11 in Benbrook, and in Bridgeport,
about 10 in Weatherford.
That factor in that still gusty north wind.
It actually feels like -,
6 at DFW and in Lewisville,
as well as in Fort Worth.
It feels like zero degrees in Benbrook -,
5 in Mesquite and in Terrell -,
4 and Rockwall -,
3 and Wiley Mckenney a brisk -.
8 degrees is what it feels
like for you this morning.
And it does not improve too much
in the next couple of hours.
I'm thinking we still stay
at about 10 or 11 degrees,
at least through the mid morning.
It'll still feel like sub-zero
temperatures out there,
18 degrees expected by around midday at
about 24 degrees at 4:00 in the afternoon.
I'm expecting temperatures,
though to improve barely above
freezing Saturday for any
little L Mansfield and Saginaw,
about 3435 degrees on Saturday and
in the low 40s on Christmas Day.
Sunday. So improvements are coming.
We just have to hang in there.
And we were talking about this
cold air that's in place.
And obviously we always think
about our energy demands.
Ariel Placencia is here this morning,
you were talking about how
we reach some of those
peak demands kind of early,
absolutely. Well, yesterday Arcott said
originally we were going to not going to
reach that peak until early this morning.
Well, if you were awake last night at 10:00
PM, we had 74,000 megawatts of demand.
Our cost said the peak
was going to be 70,000.
So last night at 10:00 PM.
That's exactly where we were.
We were already over it.
Let's check out where we are this morning.
This is ERCOT supply and demand graph
that updates in real time and I hover my
cursor over here, 605 demand forecast,
look at that 72,000 megawatts.
So we're already over what they thought.
Excuse me, the, excuse me,
the peak would be which would be 70,000.
Apparently it's so cold in here.
I can't find my voice.
I'm so sorry.
Alright, let's try this again.
Here we go.
Six AM, 72,000 megawatts of demand,
available capacity,
that's going to be 80,000.
Now obviously, quick note about this graph,
that purple line,
that's going to be your capacity,
the blue line, that's going to be demand.
So I'm so sorry guys.
Obviously you want enough
capacity to meet the demand.
That's where we are right now.
Now as we move forward through the day,
notice how close these lines get though,
like we'll take a look for example
at 8:00 AM, demand forecast 76,000.
Like what's available capacity, only 83.
We'll keep moving on.
As that sun comes up,
those temperatures warm up ever so slightly,
right?
But when we get to 6:00 PM,
look at this 64067 thousand megawatts of
our demand, available capacity only 75.
So that graph significantly
narrows as that night goes on.
So of course, that's something that
we're going to be keeping our eye on.
Now let's talk about operating reserves here.
The only thing you need to know about this,
look at this number,
when this number gets below 2300,
that's when we start to have some concern.
So right now we're at 55.
Doing OK in the green,
all normal conditions.
Wanna make one mention of where
our power is coming from,
right.
Maria was talking about the wind
that actually is powering a
lot of the grid right now,
wind making up about 20% of our energy.
So a little bit of good news,
it's bringing it cold,
but at least it's helping out the grid here.
Last thing I want to mention,
that's going to be the encore outage match.
So we'll take a look.
Unfortunately,
we've got almost 600 active outages,
15,000 effective customers,
but Encore says they've got crews
working around the clock trying to
get those lights turned back on.