Posted on 02/05/2011 11:38:56 AM PST by Hojczyk
As we slip toward the end of a Super Bowl week that has inflicted a winter’s worth of misery on North Texas — from springlike temperatures to an ice storm followed by a record snowfall — it would seem things have to get better.
Well, maybe not.
In the final run-up to Super Bowl XLV, huge chunks of snow and ice tumbled from the roof of Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Friday, injuring six people, one seriously. Among the injured was Win McNamee, a photographer for Getty Images, who was shooting exterior photos of the stadium when a chunk of ice hit him in the shoulder, breaking it in four places.
And Super Bowl Sunday, which forecasters said would be dry and seasonably warm — in the upper 50s — now looks to bring a mix of snow and rain to the big game with temperatures in the 30s.
The weekend begins in a promising way on Saturday, with sunshine, southerly breezes and temperatures near 40, ending a 100-plus hour run of subfreezing weather.
The sun should help clear some of the ice and slush covering Dallas-area roadways from back-to-back storms Tuesday and then Thursday night into Friday morning.
The first storm left ice. The second brought heavy snow, 6 to 8 inches for the day in some places, causing dozens of accidents on North Texas highways.
But National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Patrick said sun and temperatures in the upper 30s on Saturday won’t be enough to melt everything. And when the sun goes down, anything left on the roads will freeze again.
Then comes Sunday
Then comes Sunday and another cold front that will cap temperatures in the 30s and bring a good chance of rain, snow or both —
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dallas is actually part of southern oklahoma.
They really screwed up the forecasting on this one. Every day it was supposed to be ‘better’ the next, this whole week. It got worse and worse until today and it’s finally decent.
I can’t believe it might go worse again tomorrow, phew.
fighting words.
GOOOO STEELERS!
You folks are gonna have to take up ice fishing.
Will the Rush jinx continue ???????????
By nest week, they’ll be blaming it on the Gulf spill and more folks will be out to scr** BP.
Obviously this is all being caused by the people who are driving eco cars and using screwy lightbulbs. They have changed the climate and look what they’ve done. We must all make a huge effort to produce more greenhouse gas to warm up the planet again.
Shouldn’t that be the logic, Mr. Gore?
There’s a hole in the stadium, right? So that means when they’re playing football, it may actually snow?
Oklahoma is a suburb of Plano...
That was the old stadium.
Wrong again, Mr. Metorologist. It’s in the 50’s already (I’m right by the stadium).
If the weather idles a bunch of the Texas wind turbines the game may be played in the dark.
Retractable roof.
I understand that during the “rolling blackouts” last week, power was never cut off to Jerry Jones’s palace because the “security” activities there were considered too important. I think it would have been a nice gesture if Jones had offered hospitality to those not able to keep their homes warm. They could have camped in the stadium just like folks did in the Louisiana Super Dome during Hurricane Katrina.
To be fair, they should have left the dome open.
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