The forecast is now saying -2 with -25 windchills with 6-10 inches with heavier amounts locally. Between Sunday/Monday and Wednesday/Thursday most of DFW is going to be looking at a foot of snow with some places getting 18” or more. Add into the wind there are going to be some massive drifts.
At this point it’s not if we get snow it’s how much snow are we going to get. The projections will get more and more accurate the closer we get but right now they only keep going up. Schools in DFW are preping to go 100% remote next week.
Texas isn’t equipped for this. Hell the freezing rain/ice line is forecasted to be well past San Antonio. Some parts of south Texas are looking at 3” of ice. I’m glad DFW will have artic temps because it should make for some dry powdery snow. Anything but ice please. They are already expecting brown outs next week. Ice will just take down power lines and that could be life threatening with the prolonged single record low temps. The first event will for sure be snow. The Wednesday/Thursday will probably be snow but at times 3” of ice has been projected. If Sunday/Monday is snow and Wednesday/Thursday is ice this will be a repeat of 2014’s icemaggedon.
I've lived in DFW all my life. The last time I remember a multi-inch snowpack was 2009 with 10 inches of snow!
In 2013 we had something called "cobblestone ice", where we had consecutive winter storms bringing a couple of inches of ice that made travel very difficult. During the day, temps would go just above freezing, then at night it would refreeze compact into waves which were basically dips and crests....ie...cobblestones:
Crossing bridges was the worst and I had to get over the Hulen St. bridge back and forth daily. I was driving an SUV at the time with a roof rack that had packed ice and snow. Driving down the bumpy cobblestones on the long bridge caused the ice sheet on the roof to work itself loose and
COVER THE FRONT WINDSHIELD WHILE I WAS DRIVING. I had to roll down the window and stick my head out to drive, Ace Ventura sytle!
