Welcome to polar Texas

[Skiprr]

Right now, at 18:30:

Houston -- 78 degrees
Waco -- 45 degrees
Dallas -- 32 degrees
Amarillo -- 6 degrees!

Sure looks like a cold front to me. Anchorage, Alaska, by the way, is 31 degrees.

[carlson1]

DFW:
31 degrees
28 mph winds
16 feels like

I used to love cold weather now it hurts physically. Maybe we can at least get snow or ice out of this deal.

[Flightmare]

Once a year, I like ice. Just so I can find an empty parking lot and do donuts in my pickup.

[NotRPB]

Right now, at 18:30:

Houston -- 78 degrees
Waco -- 45 degrees
Dallas -- 32 degrees
Amarillo -- 6 degrees!

Sure looks like a cold front to me. Anchorage, Alaska, by the way, is 31 degrees.

TV showed Amarillo at TWO degrees in the morning ... wonder what the wind chill will be ...

[tomtexan]

Maybe we can at least get snow or ice out of this deal.

Hush
You take that back RIGHT NOW!

I personally like the cold, but being volly fire amd ems - my love for the slick stuff has dwindled.

I can think of plenty of places I'd rather be than on the side of the road tonight.

I brought my bunker gear home, went by the station and ran the engine on the Hurst tools for a few minutes to freshen the fuel... hopefully I've put the jinx against getting called out.

I second that!

I'm in the towing business and on rotation for two counties. I too, do not care anything about seeing freezing precipitation. I'd rather be inside where it is warm! Too dangerous out on the roads in that stuff.

[rmr24]

Right now, at 18:30:

Houston -- 78 degrees
Waco -- 45 degrees
Dallas -- 32 degrees
Amarillo -- 6 degrees!

Sure looks like a cold front to me. Anchorage, Alaska, by the way, is 31 degrees.

TV showed Amarillo at TWO degrees in the morning ... wonder what the wind chill will be ...

Wind will only be 3-5mph so it shouldn't be too bad.....but I won't be going outside!

[K5CLC]

Here in Georgetown the temp went from a nice 75, to 45 in 15 minutes. As of this writing at 8:19p it's now 40 and dropping.
and the WIND is making it painful to stand outside. That's why i'm inside on the computer! :)

[cmgee67]

My dads up in Oklahoma huntin and he said it's gonna be 14 in the morning and the wind will make it feel like it's 1 degree! That's nuts!

[Mxrdad]

I cant stand the cold anymore. It hurts! Although, I like to see it snow here in Houston since we dont see it often and rarely does it stick to the ground. I do understand the issue with the roads previously mentioned though. Ha, Houston has a hard time with plain ol rain/wet roads, the icy roads are a nightmare. Was anybody in Galveston, or remember hearing about the snow that hit somewhere around 1994 (ish). Give or take a couple of years? We were doing a job there and a co-worker and I walked on the beach while it was snowing.

[treadlightly]

I didn't evolve for this habitat. I'm at risk.

Where is global warming when you really need it?

[Skiprr]

The Weather Channel just scrolled the forecasts for the NFL games today. Indianapolis is at Minnesota, kickoff at noon Central. Forecast? A balmy -12 degrees actual air temperature.

Digging back in history, some games held up as among the coldest showed only windchill, not air temp. Best I can tell, the record is December 31, 1967 when the Cowboys met the Packers at Lambeau Field in the infamous "Ice Bowl"; it was -13.

If the Indy/Vikings game is televised here, I'll have to switch over to it once in a while...as I sit in a recliner with a mug of hot chocolate at hand.

[TexasJohnBoy]

I was outside yesterday when the front blew in. I was enjoying a pistol match when it was my turn for a stage, and literally within a minute it went from humid and comfortable in a short sleeve shirt to needing my jacket and gloves. Two gusts of wind dropped the temp 10-15* it felt like and it was all downhill from there!

This morning my weather app says it's 12* here, with a wind chill of 2*!!

[The Annoyed Man]

I was outside yesterday when the front blew in. I was enjoying a pistol match when it was my turn for a stage, and literally within a minute it went from humid and comfortable in a short sleeve shirt to needing my jacket and gloves. Two gusts of wind dropped the temp 10-15* it felt like and it was all downhill from there!

This morning my weather app says it's 12* here, with a wind chill of 2*!!

Wow, you've got it tough! Here at my house this morning, it was a balmy 14º, with a wind chill of 5º. But not to worry......it's going to rocket all the way up into the high 20s today. That's T-shirt weather in Nome, Alaska; so that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Personally I WILL be wearing a T-shirt..........underneath everything else........