Let me show you what's happening out there.
I got some pictures. Look at this one.
I mean, the sisters braving the elements.
I like that.
Look at all the pictures we've had today.
Jody sent us this one.
Couple sleep men in Forney.
Cute right there. Let me see.
What is that? Let me look here.
I'm just kind of looking at that.
Are those those carrots that
they stuck on there? I can't.
Get to with those are the cute baby carrots.
Yeah that's cute though.
I like this,
these pictures here look at Christie 048
the backyard at least the pool still going.
Hey at least we have power this time right?
I mean, you know, you think back to two
years ago when we didn't we were all in.
I mean you talk about it.
I mean it's not that cold it's.
I mentioned this since we started at 3:00.
O'clock today we're hovering now
our 38 between 26 and 29 degrees.
So 38 hours we've been right there.
2026 to 29 degrees.
I I wouldn't call this an Arctic blast.
I I don't think you would either,
especially after, you know,
what we had happened, you know,
the week between Christmas and New
Year when we were down into the teens.
And then you think back to February 2021
when we were down into the single digits.
That's an Arctic blast.
This is modified Arctic air,
we'll call it.
But the ice,
the ice and the sleet is a real mess.
But at least everybody's well pool
pumps are running and they're
not frozen over right now.
This is not good news.
An ice storm warning 6:00 AM
Wednesday to 6:00 AM Thursday.
Denton, Tarrant,
Johnson County and locations to the West.
Why are these counties under this
warning and counties just to the east?
Collin County, Dallas County, Ellis County?
Not in it.
More ice is expected in these counties.
Ice is expected here.
It's just around 1/2 an inch
or so is expected here.
So lower amounts here, higher amounts here,
more impactful problems here.
Less here,
but still problems.
For everyone and everyone's under
the Winter storm warning until
6:00 AM on Thursday due to more
sleet and more freezing rain and
maybe even a few flakes of snow,
we have some look at this right here.
That's just a little bit of sleep.
That's what the purple is on this map.
The white, of course, is all snow.
Then you head down and you see these pinks,
that's freezing rain and
also some freezing drizzle.
And you can see we have just more.
It's kind of on and off, and it will
stay on and off the freezing line.
It's it's in East Texas.
Texarkana is at 35 Shreveport,
LA.
37 down at center it's 41 Dallas
2726 and Fort Worth 28 and Graham and
28 in Albany and 26 out in Abilene.
So tonight here you go,
that's freezing rain and drizzle.
Freezing drizzle.
Watch this. That's midnight.
There's sunrise tomorrow.
See how kind of another wave
rolls in 7:00 AM tomorrow?
Look at that throughout the day.
Tomorrow there's noon.
Check this out.
This takes us until 6:00 o'clock
and see what I'm talking about.
It's on and off for the next you know,
48 hours. Then. Then watch this.
This is this is as we head into Thursday.
This is late late tomorrow night.
There's midnight freezing lines trying
to creep back to the to the West.
It's still we still wake up Thursday
morning right around freezing.
We don't make it to 33 degrees until
9:00 o'clock in the morning on Thursday.
In areas West of this line,
the western half of North
Texas is still below freezing.
On Thursday morning.
So here we go overnight tonight,
kind of hover in that same area the the
middle to upper 20s for our overnight lows.
And then at noon tomorrow we get to 30.
And then finally by 9:00
AM on Thursday we hit 33,
and by 3:00 PM on Thursday
we're up to 37 degrees.
So we will be above freezing by 9:00 AM on
Thursday for the first time in 86 hours.
We dropped the 32 degrees
at 7:00 PM on Sunday.
Tonight we're still in that.
That range of 26 to 29.
My low tonight is 27.
It's on and off sleet and freezing
rain and freezing drizzle overnight.
It's the same thing.
Tomorrow it will be widespread.
Tomorrow we warm up to 31.
The next 10 days there's Friday,
Jason, 51 with Sunshine,
57 Saturday and 62 on Sunday.
But more freezing rain,
more sleep,
more freezing drizzle.
It's all in the forecast over
the next 36 hours or so.
Meteorologist Kyle Roberts is here now.
And Kyle?
People keep talking about snow when it's
sleet and freezing rain when it's sleet.
So give us a update on the differences,
please.
Yeah,
there's been a lot of confusion as
to exactly what's been falling from
the sky over the last 24 hours.
And it has been, I think,
a combination of all three,
freezing rain and sleet.
But primarily what you're
seeing on the ground is sleet.
You might have seen a snowflake or two
falling from the sky here or there,
but what has been impactful
across North Texas,
what has caused the roadway issues?
It's been sleet and freezing rain.
It has not been. Snowfall.
Snowfall is much better,
at least for the roads.
Freezing rain and sleet is not.
So remember freezing rain
is just normal rain.
It's falling as liquid but with
temperatures below freezing.
So as soon as that makes
contact with something,
whether that's the hood of your car,
a tree, a bridge, something like that,
it freezes and becomes freezing rain and
creates that coat of ice on everything,
sleet or ice pellets.
So that's primarily what was
falling earlier today.
Some of you had Thunder sleet.
If you stepped outside,
you were getting pelted
with little pieces of ice.
That's snow that melts into rain.
And then refreezes while falling.
So it becomes those ice pellets
as it hits the ground and that
is the majority of what has
accumulated in North Texas today.
Yes, going back to yesterday and today snow.
Well that's kind of obvious,
kind of hard to describe
exactly what is snow.
You know it if you see it,
it's just those six sided fluffy
crystals falling from the sky
and of course snow starts as snow
in the clouds and then falls the
snow all the way to the ground.
There's no melting and refreezing
or anything like that like you're
dealing with freezing rain and sleet.
So we did see all three today,
but primarily sleep.
And freezing rain.
This has not been a snow event
for us here in North Texas.
We'll be back with more to get back to you.