It's snowing in Houston.

[kentauros]

Gawd, as if the liquid stupidity falling out of the sky isn't bad enough to confound the local drivers, now I have to contend with frozen white stupidity falling out of the sky to confuse them all even more.

I hate global climate change :P

[hatredisnotavalue]

1. In central Maine today, it was 58 degrees

and raining. Truly crazy weather in both Maine and Texas! Monday it was 12 degrees with snow. Windchill was minus 20.

[kentauros]

3. Well, at least you're acclimated to such low temps.

I can't take it if it stays below 50 for more than a day or so. Give me my normal 80+ temps and humidity and I'm in heaven :D

[Wapsie B]

2. Ah yes, winter in Texas.

Video clips on the news about good old boys trying to drive 90 on freeways covered with sheets of ice. Another sign of the season. Makes me all misty-eyed thinking about it.

[kentauros]

4. Luckily, Houston doesn't get the kind of icy weather that's semi-normal for North Texas.

This is abnormal weather for us. Even thirty years ago, I can remember Christmases that were shorts and shortsleeve weather and that was considered normal :D

[Wapsie B]

5. That's good. I hate ice more than anything in the winter.

Even in North or Northeast Iowa we had snowless Christmases before. Not unusual at all. Several years ago I didn't get my shovel out once, having one 2-3 inch snowfall all winter. That year it was windbreaker weather until late in the month.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. I thought you got ice storms about every ten years?

I lived there 1988 and 1989 and we got them both winters; totally closed the whole city.
Literally could not drive except about 15 mph. Of course 4x drive guys thoughtthey were bulletproof until they tried stopping

[kentauros]

10. I remember the freeze of '89

Water pipes froze and broke all over the city. I had to get out on the roads to get to my bank (I lived in Webster/Clear Lake, and had to get into Houston back then to do a half-hour radio spot at KPFT.) The landscape watering system had busted and overflowed into the parking lot, turning it into a rink. One half of the lot was away from everything, just open space. I decided I wanted to see what it was like in a slide. I had a little VW Fox wagon at the time (I miss that car!) and took a running start of only about 10 to 15mph, then threw on the handbrake. Wheee! Sliding sideways, turning the front wheels with no reaction whatsoever! :D

Then I hit 'dry' concrete and jerked to a stop ;)

I learned that day when you slide on ice, you might as wll just brace for the impending impact than try anything else.

[yellowdogintexas]

35. yeah, that was my first winter in Fort Worth and I was stunned. I did not know

it did that sort of thing down here.

We did not get any precip THIS time, just hellacious wind and a 30 degree temperature drop during the day yesterday.

[kentauros]

36. My brother and his wife used to live in Arlington

and have told me of the ice storms they've gotten there before. They live in Austin now, though :)

[justabob]

6. it'll be in the 70s again tomorrow

I love those drivers on ice skates too. They do really treat it more like sport than driving. I stay locked in my house and off the roads on the 2 days a year when we get that kind of weather.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Snowing in Houston County too (North of Huntsville).

33 degrees.

[Xipe Totec]

20. Isn't that near Moscow, Texas? n/t

[kentauros]

23. Doesn't look like it.

Here's a site for GIS DEMs (digital elevation maps) that lists the main towns/cities in Houston County:
http://www.webgis.com/terr_pages/TX/dem75/houston.html

From the City of Houston and Harris County, it's three counties from us, due north. I have some county maps on the walls here as one of our clients has pipelines all across East Texas :D

[Xipe Totec]

25. 51 miles from Hunstsville to Moscow

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Moscow&1s=TX&2c=Huntsville&2s=TX

[LostinVA]

9. Poor, poor MrsG...

[kentauros]

11. Hmmm, that's true....

She's on the north side of town at that ;)

[LostinVA]

13. Is that where the ski slopes are???

[kentauros]

14. Only if you're water-skiing downflow in flooded bayous heading into Galveston Bay

:P

The only "hills" around here are overpasses on the freeways ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Just talked to my cousin and they've had no snow.

Perhaps it's just localized. :shrug:

[kentauros]

17. Probably.

I work on the NW side of town, though only about 16 miles from home, further in. I'll ask neighbors when I get home if they saw any. That was about 3pm today and the news media did report it, so maybe it was "scattered" flurries.

[Mr. Blonde]

12. It was in the 20s yesterday here in Tulsa

Of course you have to factor in the 40 mile an hour wind too.

A kid here from California asked what is wrong with the weather in Oklahoma. He said he checked the average temperature and it was like 70 which didn't seem so bad. I told him yeah the average of cold and miserable in the winter and hot and miserable in the summer. Never actually that temperature.

[Jamastiene]

15. It is currently 66 degrees at 7:30 PM here in NC.

It was freaking amazing outside today. Yesterday was even better. It was 66 yesterday. I enjoyed the hell out of that.

[kentauros]

19. It was warm here, too, yester-day.

Yeah, it lasted all of a day, now it's frakkin' freezing again! I have never liked the cold

You'll get yours soon enough

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/tropicalwx/satpix/eaus_ir4_loop.php

[Xipe Totec]

18. Meanwhile, it's raining buckets in Boston

can we trade? :P

[kentauros]

21. Gladly!

So long as it's a warm bucket-o-rain ;)

[Xipe Totec]

22. 36 degrees, practically the tropics

:evilgrin:

[kentauros]

24. Yeah, if you're talking 36C!

Which is comfortable to me

[Xipe Totec]

26. No, that was Rankine

Kidding, it's Fahrenheit...

:hide:

[kentauros]

27. No "Centigrade"?

;)

Well, y'all can keep it. You live up there in the Arctic Circle anyway, so you're used to it, like we're used to droughts, hurricanes and flash floods :P

(going home, k?)

[texanwitch]

28. I live in central Houston, westend.

It is still snowing, yes.

Nice to see it every once in a while.

[kentauros]

31. Yeah, it's fine

when you don't have to get out and drive in it ;)

Seeing as how pretty much all employees at my office live either south or east of here, I kind of doubt we'll be making it in, or not until much later in the day...

[texanwitch]

32. I remember living in Austin and driving those hills.

It only figures we would get snow after Ike.

Drive carefull.

[last_texas_dem]

29. Woohoo! Same thing in Huntsville...

It had stopped for a while, but I just went and walked around outside. Little snowflakes blowing around, and my car has a nice coating of snow on it. Really don't get to see this much...

[kentauros]

30. If I get a "snowday" from work, it'll be fine, and I'll get photos.

But, of course, we're on a heavy deadline, so we'll see if I can afford to call in snowbound or not ;)

And it's still snowing here on the semi-SW side, too. All the way home from Holister and 290, while I pumped gas and just now as I attempted some night photos. I'll have to try some long-exposures later on the tripod and see how they come out :)

[texanwitch]

33. It is snowing really hard here in central Houston,

Take care everyone.

[kentauros]

37. I made a tiny snowball a little while ago from what accumulated on a pickup

here. Didn't throw it; saved it on a potted palm I have out there. I think I'll go take some time exposures now :)

[Generator]

34. Yikes!

My husband is going to go to a conference there on Monday. It says the high is predicted to be 78!??? Is this normal?

Snow.... then Miami! Crazy place.