When Will It Snow in North Texas Again

Travel will be hard due to ice and snow through Thursday morning. Ice accumulations and gusty winds on utility lines could cause power disruptions.

DALLAS — You'll want to pay close attending to this storm. Turn on WFAA at 10 p.m. each nighttime this calendar week with Chief Meteorologist Pete Delkus. He's covered many a wintertime event, and will brand sure you know what you lot need to each nighttime.

Winter storm alarm

A Winter Storm Warning is in event for all of Due north Texas. Accumulations of sleet, snow are ongoing in Northward Texas.

Travel will exist difficult due to ice and snowfall Thursday and Friday. Water ice accumulations and gusty winds on utility lines could cause power disruptions. Cold current of air chills could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken.

The Alarm is set to expire at 6 p.m. tonight when all wintry weather should be done falling in North Texas, simply cold temps and hazardous roads are possible into the weekend.

Spotter Pete'due south extended forecast from Tuesday dark:

Here's what to expect rest of the mean solar day:

Timing

Temps have fallen well beneath freezing across D-FW and most of North Texas.

Freezing pelting transitioned to mainly sleet mixed with snow during the late night hours. Sleet then continued to transition snow across D-FW and the western half of Due north Texas by Thursday morning. Snow is now ending from due west to east through the early afternoon hours.

Accumulations or amounts

Call back, freezing pelting, which will cause water ice, accumulated outset. Followed past accumulations of sleet and snow Th morning.

Ice accumulations northwest of the Metroplex were on the society of 1/10 to 1/4 inch with localized areas of 1/ii inch closer to the Red River.  We even so expect additional ice accumulations of 1/10-one/4 inch southeast of the Metroplex as temperatures fall into the upper 20s. Total snow and sleet accumulations will range from 3-iv inches across the northwest with much less across the southeast with 1-2 inches being most common elsewhere.

Areas that see the highest amounts of freezing rain will also be most susceptible to power outages.

For D-FW and the rest of N Texas, any sleet or snow accumulated on pinnacle of the freezing rain or ice.

Travel concerns

Then travel issues will continue all mean solar day on Thursday and Fri due to the very cold temperatures and picayune melting on Friday.

Since inappreciably any melting will occur, Friday morning will likely take big issues as well.

During the twenty-four hours Friday, actual temps (which are taken in the shade) may not warm above freezing, but information technology will besides come with sunshine. Areas that see good sunshine should beginning to melt whatsoever water ice or snow.

Still, anything that does melt will re-freeze Friday nighttime and lingering slick spots or travel issues are possible Saturday morn.

Thankfully, a adept deal of melting will occur on Sat with only a few slick spots likely by Sunday morning.

Temperatures

This does look to exist the coldest air of the season so far. Temps vicious below freezing sometime Midweek evening (8 p.g. give or accept) and won't warm up in a higher place freezing until Sat around midday.

Lows look to be well downwardly in the 20s Thursday morning time, with lows in the teens Fri and Saturday morning.

None of these temps look to be tape cold, but very cold nonetheless.

Power Outages

With the events of last year, this is likely on everyone's mind.

With any wintertime conditions upshot, there is always the risk of power outages. Especially if ice is in the forecast.

Ice can accumulate and weigh down powerlines causing them to terminate working. Or ice on tree branches tin sag downwards onto powerlines too. You lot tin can accept the all-time electrical grid in the world, but if powerlines are above footing, there will always be a threat for ability outages.

Nosotros've seen that before. Events of February 2011 and December 2013 "Cobblestone Ice" come to mind.

What ends upwards happening with this consequence remains to exist see, but we've seen winter storms take a strong affect on ability and travel in Northward Texas.

Will this be like February 2021?

In short, no.

That was a once in a xxx- to 50- to 100-yr issue, depending on what metric you want to wait at.

Last yr we had over seven days in a row with below freezing temps. Lows in the single digits and below 0 degrees. Besides every bit highs merely in the teens.

While information technology will get cold this week, it will not be that cold. And at that place does not look to be threat of the cold sticking around for that long. High temps by the weekend look to be back in the 40s to 50s.

Could there be power outages? It'south certainly possible, merely this cold snap and winter weather event does not look to affect the entire state like final year, which was one of the major problems in 2021. Power outages may be more than localized due to ice. Where that occurs is very hard to predict.

Unfortunately, this looks to be a winter storm that we tin get in North Texas from time to time. Nosotros've had them before, and we volition have them once more in the future.

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Source: https://www.wfaa.com/article/weather/dfw-weather-arctic-cold-freezing-rain-sleet-and-snow-likely-headed-to-north-texas-this-week/287-5c758b2b-5d22-4c02-a459-99302b869ee2