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TK’s Special Briefing….

February 7, 2014 by troyk

1259pm CT – Fri / 7 Feb 2014

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY.. as issued by the NWS/Austin-San Antonio..
continues for Travis County (metro Austin) as well as all surrounding counties
throughout the area until 4pm today….

1 pm temperatures include…

Austin/City (Mabry)….. 33 F
Austin Bergstrom International Airport….. 32 F
Austin Executive Airport (Pflugerville)….. 30 F
Lago Vista Rusty Allen Airport….. 30 F
Georgetown Municipal Airport….. 30 F
San Marcos Municipal Airport….. 30 F

Lingering light freezing drizzle will transition to light drizzle as temperatures continue to
slowly rise to freezing and slightly above by early into mid afternoon today. Exercise
caution on roadways as patchy ice has been reported in some areas.

Just for the record, Mabry went below freezing just before 9pm on Wednesday night (5 Feb)
and remained at or below freezing until about 1215pm today… or a little more than 39 straight hours.
ABIA went below freezing about 830pm on Wednesday night (5 Feb) and has remained at
or below freezing into the 1pm hour today… which is about 41 straight hours.

TK’s Special Briefing….

February 7, 2014 by troyk

800am CT – Fri / 7 Feb 2014

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY.. as issued by the NWS/Austin-San Antonio..
continues for Travis County (metro Austin) as well as all surrounding counties
throughout the area until 12 noon today….

Some reports of light freezing drizzle have been received to the south through southwest
and west of the Austin area in the last few areas. No major problems reported yet around
our area.

Remember, very light drizzle does not show up very well on Doppler weather radar and
automated weather observations, like most the sites below except ABIA, aren’t able to
distinguish drizzle as a current weather type. So the first indication that freezing drizzle
is occurring may come from your representatives in the field rather than via radar or
surface weather reports. Please forward your reports, via this email address, from the field
to me and I’ll get those to the NWS/Austin-San Antonio on your behalf.

I am keeping my precipitation probability at 30% for today through midday then
decreasing thereafter… potential trace to several hundredths of an inch amounts possible.

8am temperatures include…

Austin/City (Mabry)….. 30 F
Austin Bergstrom International Airport….. 28 F
Austin Executive Airport (Pflugerville)….. 28 F
Lago Vista Rusty Allen Airport….. 27 F
Georgetown Municipal Airport….. 27 F
San Marcos Municipal Airport….. 28 F

Temperatures should to freezing and slightly above by midday or very early afternoon
today.

In my opinion, this continues as a low probability event with, if it materializes, a high
potential impact for the Austin metro area and the IH35 corridor.

Troy Kimmel Weather

Forecasting Austin and South Central Texas Weather Since 1984