Texas Winter
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From: Texas panhandle
Shoot, I live north of Amarillo, in the panhandle (and it SURE AS HECK ISN'T OKLADAMHOMA!). It was pretty chilly with snow here earlier this week (11 degrees F) but the good thing about the weather here is that it will be 60 by saturday. The fields are muddy and we can't get in to harvest the crops. These cold winter nights I can see Liberal, Ks. off my door step and it's on the other side of Oklahoma.
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Y'all talking Texas would do us all a favor by 'splaining where in TX you is.
Here in So. Cal. we are getting down to just barely 32 for a touch of frost, but no ice scrapers needed. 40 miles north in the high desert, it was 17 overnight.
I was in Clovis NM in 1980-81. 8 miles from the Tx border. The weather would blow in there mighty quick---40 at 7AM, 20 at 8AM, snowing so hard you couldn't see across the street by 9AM continuing to afternoon. At 5PM as clear as you can get, stars from horizen to horizen and 2 degrees.....
Do you have dirt storms in your neck of TX like they do near Lubbock?
Here in So. Cal. we are getting down to just barely 32 for a touch of frost, but no ice scrapers needed. 40 miles north in the high desert, it was 17 overnight.
I was in Clovis NM in 1980-81. 8 miles from the Tx border. The weather would blow in there mighty quick---40 at 7AM, 20 at 8AM, snowing so hard you couldn't see across the street by 9AM continuing to afternoon. At 5PM as clear as you can get, stars from horizen to horizen and 2 degrees.....
Do you have dirt storms in your neck of TX like they do near Lubbock?
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From: Corpus Christi, TX
Maybe this is the year Corpus Christi Bay will freeze over like it did back in the early 1900's. 
I used to hear visitors from up North say that they had never felt a humid cold, like they did while they visited Corpus during a cold snap. They said it was worse than a windy cold day up North. . .you guys ever heard of anything like this? I can't see how our 40° w/wind can compare to -3°!
I used to hear visitors from up North say that they had never felt a humid cold, like they did while they visited Corpus during a cold snap. They said it was worse than a windy cold day up North. . .you guys ever heard of anything like this? I can't see how our 40° w/wind can compare to -3°!
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Where I am at south of Amarillo, we have crops that have been ready to harvest for a month. Just when it starts to dry out, it rains or snows again. It has been getting into the upper teens at night so far this week. Been waiting until the ground freezes to combine milo and strip cotton. Last night (or this morning), we got in the fields at 4 a.m. and combined until 9 this morning. I can't wait until it dries up.
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Originally Posted by Munkey
Maybe this is the year Corpus Christi Bay will freeze over like it did back in the early 1900's.
I used to hear visitors from up North say that they had never felt a humid cold, like they did while they visited Corpus during a cold snap. They said it was worse than a windy cold day up North. . .you guys ever heard of anything like this? I can't see how our 40° w/wind can compare to -3°!
I used to hear visitors from up North say that they had never felt a humid cold, like they did while they visited Corpus during a cold snap. They said it was worse than a windy cold day up North. . .you guys ever heard of anything like this? I can't see how our 40° w/wind can compare to -3°!
-3 and calm....Hhhmmmm, maybe, maybe I'd go that vs. 40, soaking wet and wind. Take 'er down to 35 and driving sleet and your 3 degrees seems like paradise.
How about them west Texas dirt storms?????
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From: Fairbanks, Alaska
Originally Posted by peppy
Texas has four seasons......Spring, Summer, Fall, January. 
s'pose to get down to -25 this weekend! Anyone wanna trade?
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From: WEST TEXAS
Originally Posted by heavnbound
Alaska has four seasons as well...Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction!
s'pose to get down to -25 this weekend! Anyone wanna trade?
s'pose to get down to -25 this weekend! Anyone wanna trade?
having to deal with the highs not above the 20s & then the real kicker 25-30
MPH winds & the wind chill just plumiting (whoever said chicago is the windy
city has never been to west TEXAS) ah now I remember it was 16 years ago
the cold front was refered to as the siberan express.
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER..............TURBO TED
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From: Hockley, Tx.
Originally Posted by faroffthetrack
Houston's been really over due for snow, maybe this year? 
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From: NE Texas
I remember the winds out there turbo TED. I worked out there in the early-80's and it got the point that we'd have to put duct tape around our lunch boxes to keep them from getting dust in them. RRRRReal bad deal.
One winter, when I got back home (1983-84 maybe) Sulphur River was frozen 4 feet thick - not 4 inches - 4 feet! Yep, crazy Texas weather. We went fishing the next week after the ice began to break up - temps in the 60's.
One winter, when I got back home (1983-84 maybe) Sulphur River was frozen 4 feet thick - not 4 inches - 4 feet! Yep, crazy Texas weather. We went fishing the next week after the ice began to break up - temps in the 60's.
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From: Fairbanks, Alaska
Here in Alaska it gets cold - really cold. But the good thing is that when it does there is no wind. Either Mother Nature figures we have had enough or the air just freezes in place...ain't figured out which one yet!
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My cousin spen his last two years in the Air Force teching folks how to load bombs onto aircraft at Sheppard AFB. Well his hometown wasn't more than a few hours drive from Shep, so he pretty much knew the weather there.
Every winter he'd tell his students to bring their field jackets, ponchoes, everything they had because it was going to be cold. And there was always this one guy from some "cold" north place who'd say "I'm from wherever, and it can't get as cold as there in Texas."
So Steven would let them show up without their gear and they'd be the ones freezing.
"Why's it so cold?" They'd ask.
And he'd tell 'em.
"In Texas we have wind chill, and it goes through your jacket, through your clothes, and chills you straight to the bone!"
I live in Victoria and yesterday I had to break out the ice scraper to clean off the truck's windshield.
Every winter he'd tell his students to bring their field jackets, ponchoes, everything they had because it was going to be cold. And there was always this one guy from some "cold" north place who'd say "I'm from wherever, and it can't get as cold as there in Texas."
So Steven would let them show up without their gear and they'd be the ones freezing.
"Why's it so cold?" They'd ask.
And he'd tell 'em.
"In Texas we have wind chill, and it goes through your jacket, through your clothes, and chills you straight to the bone!"
I live in Victoria and yesterday I had to break out the ice scraper to clean off the truck's windshield.
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From: Near Bloom, PA
THIS(click) is a Texan in winter. Y'all crazier than we are.
BTW that was taken just west of D/FW on Valentine's Day.
BTW that was taken just west of D/FW on Valentine's Day.
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