Snow in SOUTH TEXAS

**joz** · 02-02-2011, 08:50 AM

It appears that there is a chance that it will be snowing in my city for a couple of days as the temperature will drop to the single digits later tonight and stay below 30 degrees F the rest of the week with rain...that creates snow right? Just how cold does it have to be for it to really snow a few inches? I don't know how to feel. I feel excited that there is a possibility for a good amount of snow to fall. But I hate cold weather. I feel comfortable in 80+ degrees F and feel cold once it gets into the 60s...

**sabby** · 02-02-2011, 09:33 AM

You may get ice rain or sleet. I remember TrakMastaTom talking about ice rain when he lived in Missouri. If you get snow in Texas, the state may shut down.

I'm the same as you, I'm a warm weather guy (since I'm in Idaho, doesn't happen much). Over here, it can be in the high 30's/low 40's for it to snow, but it is very dry here. The warmer it is, the better it packs for snowballs/snowmen. I've been listening to sports radio and everyone is in Dallas/Ft. Worth, the cold weather seems to be the hot topic.

This morning on my way to work, the thermometer outside said -18F, if it wasn't so clear outside, it would be a lot warmer.

**Seahawk** · 02-02-2011, 09:34 AM

In College Station the temp got down to 15 degrees last night, and the wind chill pushed it down to -4.

I've never seen it this cold in Texas in my seven years of living here.......

But I don't think it's going to snow at all. All the precipitation has moved on to the east coast.

**CatalystiCam** · 02-02-2011, 09:54 AM

that sucks to hear, I used to deal with a lot of snow. Not anymore, we've had like 3 or 4 days of snow this entire winter so far. It's weird because the states is getting hit so bad this year with snow and yet BC isn't.

**Mareeps** · 02-02-2011, 03:44 PM

Hard to believe its colder in south Texas than in north Wisconsin.

**RU Joe** · 02-02-2011, 04:21 PM

'Monster' storm engulfs most of U.S.
PressTV - Monster storm engulfs huge parts of US

'Superstorm' likely to hit California
PressTV - 'Superstorm' likely to hit California
California 'Superstorm' Could Cause Mass Destruction (Video) | United States | Epoch Times

{in December}
Severe winter storm causes havoc across Europe
Severe Winter Storm Causes Havoc Across Europe | World | Epoch Times

{now} Ontario dumped with snow ...
Ontario dumped with snow, but storm more Snobigdeal than Snowtorious B.I.G.

British Columbia, Canada seems to be one of the very few places that hasn't been hit too hard yet.

What's going on? - clearly something has changed.

Is it the B.P. oil spill, and the underwater 'clouds' of oil/ dispersant?
Chemtrails? - they've been spraying something on the World for a long time now ..
How about the massive Tesla coil array known as H.A.A.R.P.?

My point is that I haven't seen anything like this in my 40 years on this planet, so that says to me that something besides our normal tracking of the Sun has changed in the meantime.
Those things I mentioned are reported as having the capability of changing the weather, which in turn would have an effect on its Worldwide patterns {energy exchange}

**jim5cents** · 02-02-2011, 04:21 PM

Snow has to do with the temperature in the atmosphere. If it is cold enough, water vapor will freeze while still in the cloud, making snow. If the vapor begins to fall, then freezes, you get sleet (which really sucks) Vapor that falls, then freezes when hitting the ground is called freezing rain and makes the biggest mess because everything ends up covered in ice.

@JG, or it is simple sensationalism. One minute, the planet is cooking because of global warming, next minute we are going to be turned into a giant snowball within 3 weeks. People just trying to sell papers and ad space.

**RU Joe** · 02-02-2011, 04:33 PM

Jim:

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Snow has to do with the temperature in the atmosphere.

I know that.
I was talking about some of the things reported capable of altering temperature, atmospheric and otherwise.

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If it is cold enough, water vapor will freeze while still in the cloud, making snow.

This lesson isn't for my benefit, right?
I know what snow is; I'm CANADIAN for Nye's sake!

I'm saying that I believe peoples' monkeying around with the upper atmosphere, altering the cloud/ weather patterns, and that darn oil spill are possibly causing this through interruption/ diversion of Global energy flow.

'Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed'
Isn't that how that Law of Physics went?

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If the vapor begins to fall, then freezes, you get sleet (which really sucks) Vapor that falls, then freezes when hitting the ground is called freezing rain and makes the biggest mess because everything ends up covered in ice.

No, actually the same thing can happen with regular snow and often does here in Vancouver {on the rare occasion that it snows here}:
it snows, then the weather warms up a bit and melts the snow, then everything freezes and the streets and sidewalks get covered in ice.
A nice, flat, slick coat of ice.

**joz** · 02-02-2011, 05:20 PM

I really don't want ice nor sleet. I'd much rather prefer the snow.

**Seahawk** · 02-02-2011, 05:30 PM

I have a friend who lives in Georgia. Yesterday I gave her a heads up about the cold and wind that was coming her way.

Today she tells me that it was 72 degrees there today! She described it as "the perfect spring day". And here the high was 35 or so, with wind chill pushing that way lower.

It was crazy hearing that, it made me a bit jealous.

**RU Joe** · 02-02-2011, 06:54 PM

I wonder what Al Gore and David Rothschild think of all this - their 'Global Warming' seems rather cool, especially since we're getting snow in places that hardly if ever get any, and exceptional amounts in other places like eastern Canada.
{hence the conspiracy theories}

But really, there is something going on.
Barring conspiracy theories, or theories about Human pollution or activities being the cause, could we be entering another Ice Age? - has something happened to the Sun?

**CrispyChicken** · 02-02-2011, 07:27 PM

I have about 2 feet of snow outside my house from two weeks ago. It never goes away. It's so freakin cold here, there was one inch of snow on the ground that we didn't go to school because the ice was so thick and made the roads extremely dangerous. It's really awful here o.o Worst winter in my life here at New York...

**jim5cents** · 02-02-2011, 07:36 PM

@ JG It wasn't for your benefit, it was for Joz. But since you don't seem to know the difference between freezing rain and snow that melts, then freezes...

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freezing_rain]Freezing rain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

**Dudebro** · 02-02-2011, 07:53 PM

Boo hoo, I'm up here breaking my back shoveling real snow. Today we had tons of extremely wet and freezing snow, that was fun.

Btw this reminds me of an episode of King of the Hill where they got a dusting of snow and people were panicking.

**jim5cents** · 02-02-2011, 07:55 PM

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Boo hoo, I'm up here breaking my back shoveling real snow.

Do you know how to turn your dishwasher into a snowblower?

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**Dudebro** · 02-02-2011, 08:33 PM

Funny but I'm the dishwasher around here.

**CatalystiCam** · 02-02-2011, 10:17 PM

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Boo hoo, I'm up here breaking my back shoveling real snow. Today we had tons of extremely wet and freezing snow, that was fun.

Oh I remember this all too well, I would go and shovel for over an hour everyday, and it would be back to 3 feet within a few days if I didn't I remember specific times shoveling in a blizzard twice because by the time I finished there was a foot on the driveway again.

Edit: Made me 10-20 bucks every time though, and it wasn't really always everyday. Every 1-4 days

**joz** · 02-02-2011, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Boo hoo, I'm up here breaking my back shoveling real snow. Today we had tons of extremely wet and freezing snow, that was fun.

Btw this reminds me of an episode of King of the Hill where they got a dusting of snow and people were panicking.

Yeah well we ain't used to the cold. What's the hottest temperature you've had to deal with and for how long? Without an air conditioner.

**Slime Slayer** · 02-02-2011, 11:04 PM

We got a decent amount today, and the damn plow took my side mirror off.

**Seahawk** · 02-02-2011, 11:08 PM

Here are some pics of the snow last year. Ignore the wrong date on some of them. It was a good time for everyone.

**Dudebro** · 02-03-2011, 12:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jozman3000

Yeah well we ain't used to the cold. What's the hottest temperature you've had to deal with and for how long? Without an air conditioner.

It gets really bad here in the summer, our seasons are dramatic like that. It gets around 100 degrees with humidity sometimes. The kind of weather where you don't wanna move, it's just not worth it. I don't have any exact figures but I know from experience that I'd be almost dying of heatstroke for at least the entire month of july and into august. Average is slightly above 80 though. I know it's consistently hotter where you are but isn't it more of a dry heat? I hate hot areas either way but I think I could deal with it without the crazy humidity.

Btw I noticed a huge icicle outside my bathroom window today. If it's still there tomorrow I'll take a pic of it. It's only about a day old and it's almost five feet long and all gnarled looking. It hangs almost directly over my back door.

**joz** · 02-03-2011, 01:04 AM

School has been cancelled for the rest of the week due to cold weather in my city. SO that means I don't have to work till Monday! I think it's retarded that this is happening. It's only in the low 30s here

. A nice

coat keeps me warm and fuzzy.

**Dudebro** · 02-03-2011, 01:09 AM

They really closed school for a week because it's in the 30s?

I do realize your area isn't as prepared for bad weather as my area is but that's still nuts. Kids around here go to school in the middle of blizzards with temps in single digits. Pretty much the only thing that cancels school is lots of ice. They do cancel school sometimes because of snow but it has to be severe. When I lived in Maine my hair would freeze while waiting for the bus. When I say freeze I meant like literally frozen solid. Those kids in Texas don't know what cold is.

**joz** · 02-03-2011, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

Those kids in Texas don't know what cold is.

No we don't.

That King of the Hill episode you spoke of a few posts back is probably more accurate than one might think.

**Seahawk** · 02-03-2011, 01:13 AM

Did it snow in your area joz?

If not that's pretty weak if school is cancelled because of cold only.
The university cancelled school for a day because of that light storm I posted.

If I recall right, back while that snow was going on Houston was getting hit harder, they cancelled school for a while.