Bitter Cold & Chance Of Snow For North Texas
COLD WEEKEND TOPPED OFF WITH POSSIBILITY OF WINTRY PRECIP…
Cold Arctic air is rushing down the Plains this evening and will arrive in North Texas overnight. Temperatures tonight will drop into the 20s area wide. It will be a bit breezy tonight too with winds out of the north at 10 to 20 mph. This will create wind chills in the teens Saturday morning. Not much of a warm up expected on Saturday with a high of only 40 and north winds continuing to blow at 10 to 20 mph all day. Really bundle up!
You'll want to think about protecting any plants tonight and tomorrow night and also be thinking about our outdoor pets.
SUNDAY will be just as cold with temperatures Sunday morning dropping into the mid 20s and then warming only to 43 in the afternoon. There will be less wind on Sunday, but any breeze will certainly put a chill in the air.
CHANCE OF SNOW, SLEET, AND RAIN…
Sunday evening into Sunday night is when we might see the first snowflakes of the season flying here in the metroplex. An upper level disturbance will be arriving Sunday night and should generate precipitation. Initially, we could see a mixture of sleet, snow and rain in the DFW area as early as 9pm Sunday. This mixture may continue for a period of a several hours overnight into Monday morning. This does not appear to be a travel problem winter event, because ground temperatures will be in the 32 to 36 degree range. This would mean no freezing on roadways, but there could slushy accumulation on roadways especially for areas along the Red River.
Here is a graphical timeline of the potential weather moving into the area.
10PM SUNDAY EVENING - note precip entering western sections of North Texas
MONDAY 3am - Mix of rain, sleet and snow moving into metro area, but note temperature of 40 degrees at DFW.
MONDAY 9am - Mix of snow and sleet and rain falling for areas from Denton, McKinney up to the Red River. Mainly all rain in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Note temperatures above freezing in all locations so icy conditions on roadways not expected. But slushy accum could be possible for areas along Red River.
HOW MUCH ACCUMULATION IS POSSIBLE...
There could be some slushy accumulation on grassy areas across the northern two rows of counties here in North Texas. This would include areas from Denton and McKinney to the north. Our RPM high-resolution forecast model is showing about 1/2" of snow accumulation possible in these areas Sunday night into Monday morning. (NOTE: the default total is TRACE, so where you see Trace does not mean we will see any snowflakes)
