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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Five twenty four now here in Houston's morning News. We'll
take some more calls later in the hour here, but
Jeff Linder is standing by with Harris County Meteorologist. This
one seems to be setting up just about the way
they predicted, Jeff, which is unusual.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yeah, so far, we've seen the snow kind of verifying.
It's been a little bit slower to turn over from
the sleet down along the coast where your collar actually
called in from. As he gets further north into the city,
the conditions are going to get a lot worse. We
have a lot of snow on the roadways. We do
have text dot currently out with plows. You know, how
often do we say that here working to keep at
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least one lane of the freeways open.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
So they're working. That's kind of the mission right now is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
To keep one lane of our freeway system open and
treat those lanes. But we will continue to see snow,
probably becoming a little bit heavier as we get towards sunrise,
with some more banding sitting up. And it wouldn't surprise
me if we got some quick burst of one two
three inches here across the metro area between about sunrise
and ten eleven AM. That's gonna kind of start shifting
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down toward the coast and offshore. By one two o'clock
this afternoon, that'll be the end of this. The real
kind of next story is with the snow on the ground,
clearing skies.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Really cold to night.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We're talking mid upper teens to low twenties across all
of the metro area.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Obviously, that will refreeze or really freeze.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Anything that is on the ground out there that has
melted a little bit. And then second infrastructure, right your pipes,
even protected infrastructure, could have some issues tonight. So tonight
we're really gonna have to watch for that type. So
we haven't had to really deal with that yet with
temperatures kind of in the upper twenties, but tonight's gonna
be that kind of critical night.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We warm up tomorrow, we'll probably get.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Some melting, but freeze again Wednesday Thursday morning, so we
could have some refreezing this time, maybe more of that
back black ice where you can't really see it on
some of the roadways and bridges. So we're gonna be
dealing with this at least in the Thursday morning and
in some areas.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, I haven't imagine. So I think too that the
thing that concerns me at least a little bit. I
don't know about you, but we temperture getting as cold
as they're going to get tonight. Usually that can set
off a few broken water mains in the city. And
if we have something like that, then you you take
those temperatures and you throw some water from from broken
water means into the mix, and you've got yourself a
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skating rinck before you know it.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, that's exactly right. You know.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's it's that, it's it's sprinkler systems that weren't prepared
properly and those start to break, and medians and stuff
like that, and you know, water gets out on the
road and those temperatures, uh, it's going to freeze. Even
even right now, it would freeze with with us in
the upper twenties.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And so you know, that's what we've been saying the
last several days.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You know, make these precautions, take these precautions to try
to prevent that. And then you know there's still time today,
I mean, as it's cold and snowing out there, but
by this afternoon the snow stops to you know, drain
some of this stuff out of those pipes and everything,
and and and make sure we can try to minimize
any structure, any infrastructure damage tonight and tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
All right, sir, Hey, good to hear from you. I
usually talk to you during hurricane season, so this is
quite unusual. One more question for you here, because we
just got a blizzard warding out of Beaumont. What in
the world.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, I was just reading the text product out of
La Charles, the Weather Service, Like Charles.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
They're getting a quarter mile visibility.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And heavy snow with thirty five mile in our winds,
and so it's about as close as you're ever going
to get to a blizzard down here.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So the blizzard warning from Beaumont to Like Charles over to.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Lafayette, and you know, this just just kind of to
bring you know, this is a Houston problem for us.
But if you look, this is all along the entire
Gulf Coast, the entire itun corridor from Texas all the
way to Florida, accumulating snow potentially up to seven eight
inches in the city of New Orleans. Wow, their greatest
snowfall ever two point six inches.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Amazing, amazing. Jeff Linder. Always a pleasure. Thank you sir,
do appreciate it. Jeff Linder, Harris County Meteorologist.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It is