Here we go again! Chance of Snow/Ice on Tue 1-28-14 (Houston: 2014, commute)

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by DRob4JC

The map I am looking at shows the wintry mix of precipitation running along through Austin, Brenham, Spring, and Cleveland. Regular rain below that around north Houston, and scattered rain south of Houston.

So far, it's a bunch of nothing for most of Houston metro.

Single digit temps in north Texas - yuck.

Spring? I see drizzle. I don't remember ice sleet coming in the daytime. It's always overnight.

Though I do remember once as a kid maybe 1994-1996 there was a hail storm in the middle of the day. Like 2pm or so. I remember opening the garage and putting a bucket on the driveway and real cubes of ice filling it. As if you pushed for cube on the ice machine.

Yuck? That sounds heavenly. Can we get some winter sometimes Houston?

Like I said before, I would have been better for it to last from Friday through today instead of this nonsense.

4 day work week nice but I wanted some cold. 40s is nothing. low 30s is cold to me. It's cold upper 30s but not enough to be brrr! it's cold about.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by DejaBlue

Can we get some winter sometimes Houston?

No thank you.

[texas7]

I like all the people who make fun of closing roads when iced because "they are used to worse where they came from." By all means, go ahead and slip and slide with the others - feel free. Fortunately today, isn't what they predicted but 60+ accidents on Friday - umm, no thanks don't care to drive with those. I value my vehicle and don't care to have to get body repairs on it. Nor would I want to sit for hours on 290 or 225 for hours due to iced up overpasses and multiple accidents to complicate it all.

My boss who is from Chicago commented about being used to driving on bad weather days but added that the roads to get to work were flatter and he didn't recall having to deal with frozen overpasses, etc. on his commute and that is where the difference comes in.

[Oildog]

Up north we didn't get as much of the freezing rain type stuff. Heavy snow and cold, which you had to use extra care to drive in, but having a layer of ice on stuff is very different. Kansas and Oklahoma have this even more, just cold enough to freeze condensation on the roads. I would take vacation whenever these conditions occurred.

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by DejaBlue

Yuck? That sounds heavenly. Can we get some winter sometimes Houston?

I am from the east coast (Virginia, DC). Single digit temps - no thank you.

20 deg temps like we had last month? No problem once I got through the initial shock. Once my body adjusted, it felt like home.

Single digit temps goes right through to my bones.

[DRob4JC]

Wintry precip mix is moving southward... looks llike I-10 west around Schulemberg, Columbus, Sealy -- and then around north Houston around the Beltway and Aldine.

[houstonsuburbs]

This !!!

Originally Posted by 124c41

Snow In Houston - YouTube

I couldn't resist. I was born, and raised in the Houston area, and can Identify with this video.

[ComeAtMe]

Ex just sent me a pic from Kingwood, snow is starting to stick to the cars.

[westhou]

Sleeting here in Uptown.

[Cbink]

Bit of sleet here - Cypress(ish). It's freezing on cars and starting to in places on the ground.