Posted on 01/12/2007 2:09:16 PM PST by Dysart
Wow, doesn't sound good at all there. Hope you have a fireplace and plenty of dry wood as you may be on your own for a few days if the lines go down.
Things not too bad here yet, though our big event is expected tomorrow am and through the day. About an inch of freezing rain expected.
Good luck to you and yours.
No fireplace. No stove. But plenty of thermal underwear.
Winter Storm Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 1220 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007
...WINTER STORM SYSTEM TO LIKELY PRODUCE ICY WEATHER OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS LATE TONIGHT THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY...
.A LARGE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL INTERACT WITH AN ARCTIC SURGE OF COLD AIR TO PRODUCE A DANGEROUS ICE STORM OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. COLD AIR WILL SPILL SOUTH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT WITH NEAR FREEZING CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AFTER MIDNIGHT ACROSS AN AREA GENERALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF AN SONORA TO LEAKEY TO NEW BRAUNFELS TO LAGRANGE LINE. THE AIR TEMPERATURES SHOULD MODERATE ONLY SLIGHTLY DURING THE DAY SUNDAY BEFORE THE SUB-FREEZING AIR PROCEEDS SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SUNDAY NIGHT.
ABUNDANT MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO OVERRUN THIS COLD AIR MASS THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION WILL FALL AS RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON...WITH SOME AREAS SEEING LIQUID PRECIPITATION CHANGING OVER SNOW AS EARLY AS MONDAY. SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ONE-HALF TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE.
TXZ171>173-184>194-206-208-209-140600- /O.NEW.KEWX.WS.W.0001.070114T0600Z-070115T1800Z/ LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE- KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-COMAL-CALDWELL-FAYETTE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LLANO...BURNET...GEORGETOWN... ROCKSPRINGS...LEAKEY...KERRVILLE...BANDERA...FREDERICKSBURG... BOERNE...BLANCO...SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS... NEW BRAUNFELS...LOCKHART...LA GRANGE 1220 PM CST SAT JAN 13 2007
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 12 PM CST MONDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 12 PM CST MONDAY.
EXPECT RAIN TO CHANGE OVER TO FREEZING RAIN LATE TONIGHT AS TEMPERATURE FALL TO FREEZING. A FEW PATCHES OF SLEET ARE POSSIBLE. OVERRUNNING RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY MORNING WITH SOME AREAS SEEING THE RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW MONDAY. THE CHANCE OF FROZEN PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY...BUT AMOUNTS ARE EPXECTED TO DECREASE AFTER MIDDAY MONDAY.
ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE COULD REACH ONE-HALF TO ONE INCH DUE TO THE CONTINUED EXPOSURE TO FREEZING TEMPERATURES. THIS COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO POWERLINES AND TREES. HAZARDOUS TRAVEL WILL BE EXACERBATED BY THE EXCESS RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS...WHICH COULD RESULT IN MANY ROAD CLOSURES.
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS ACCUMULATIONS OF SNOW...SLEET... FREEZING RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE TRAVEL PROBLEMS AND MAY POSE A THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY.
ANOTHER STATEMENT ON THIS RAPIDLY EVOLVING WEATHER EVENT WILL BE ISSUED BY LATE THIS EVENING.
Weather guy is saying that the enormous storm is pulling gulf moisture up into our area. It is also slow moving which is prob. why you didn't get your mess until later than first forecasted.
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