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HONORING RUTH IN HOUSTON!
14 years ago
Friday, December 4, 2009
Houston Winter Weather Update - 12:20 pm
Was snowing moderately in downtown Houston until about 11:45 am...has let up...just some light sleet falling. But radar shows another band approaching from northwest...eta 2 pm.
HOUSTON WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 8 PM FRI. - update
The National Weather Service is maintaining Winter Storm Warning until 8 pm today (Friday). 3 to 4 inch snow accumulations are possible with 1 to 2 inch accumulations common.
Everyone has noticed so far this a.m. the rain and snow mix. As some dry air moves into the area, there will be evaporative cooling and that will cool the air to freezing by late afternoon. This will allow accumulations. It is going to be a tricky commmute home. I think most of the school pickups will work out (3 pm pickups) but after that the snow will start accumulating.
Rapid drying after 9 pm with a clear morning and freezing temperatures ahead. Be careful to watch for icey spots if you are driving overnight and early Saturday (even though the snow will have been over for many hours).
Protect your pets and plants. There will be 10 to 12 hours of freezing temperatures for much of the area with about 3 to 6 hours near the coast and 5 to 9 in Houston. The only areas staying above freezing will be the immediate coast and Galveston.
Be safe everyone.
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Everyone has noticed so far this a.m. the rain and snow mix. As some dry air moves into the area, there will be evaporative cooling and that will cool the air to freezing by late afternoon. This will allow accumulations. It is going to be a tricky commmute home. I think most of the school pickups will work out (3 pm pickups) but after that the snow will start accumulating.
Rapid drying after 9 pm with a clear morning and freezing temperatures ahead. Be careful to watch for icey spots if you are driving overnight and early Saturday (even though the snow will have been over for many hours).
Protect your pets and plants. There will be 10 to 12 hours of freezing temperatures for much of the area with about 3 to 6 hours near the coast and 5 to 9 in Houston. The only areas staying above freezing will be the immediate coast and Galveston.
Be safe everyone.
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Winter Storm Warning for Houston
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Houston from 10 am to 8 pm Friday. This means that snow accumulations definitely expected. Some 4 inch totals are possible. See my previous post for other details.
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
WINTER STORM WATCH AND FREEZE WARNING FOR HOUSTON
This is a special update. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch and Freeze Warning for the Houston area. Snow is expected as early as mid-morning Friday and continuing into Friday evening. There is a possibility of accumulation of 1 to 3 inches...especially in the counties closest to the coast (mainly east of the Hwy 59 corridor). Most likely place for accumulations are exposed bridges, roadways and cooler grassy areas.
The National Weather Service also noted that this will be the earliest snowfall in Houston (last year's Dec. 10th was the record for earliest) and it will be the first year for back to back years with accumulations.
I think the majority of the snow will fall between 1 and 6 pm. There will be rapid drying and clearing overnight into Saturday. But, motorists should be on the lookout for ice patches early Saturday.
Be careful everyone and enjoy!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
The National Weather Service also noted that this will be the earliest snowfall in Houston (last year's Dec. 10th was the record for earliest) and it will be the first year for back to back years with accumulations.
I think the majority of the snow will fall between 1 and 6 pm. There will be rapid drying and clearing overnight into Saturday. But, motorists should be on the lookout for ice patches early Saturday.
Be careful everyone and enjoy!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Snow for Houston!/Ghostbusters in Galveston
WEATHER
Okay Houston...here's the deal...yep...it's going to snow Friday afternoon into Friday evening. Probably no accumulations except on exposed surfaces Friday evening because the temperatures the ground will still be too warm. This will not be a pipe freezing situation. Just looked at the latest data and the 1000-500 mb thicknesses and 850 mb temperatures should be low enough to support snow. That combined with an approaching upper storm and enough moisture will all snow as early as early afternoon Friday. This reminds of last December 10th...see my photos way down on the right. It will be short lived just as that was with skies clearing by Saturday morning.
For Houston on Thursday, it will be a chilly day with sunshine. Friday will be cloudy with cold rain turning to snow/rain mix and then snow. Saturday will be sunny and cool with light freeze early. Then some clouds return Sunday with a slight warmup.
In the nation on Thursday, look for highs in the teens over the northern Plains and some snow from the western Great Lakes to Denver. Southern Florida will be balmy in the 80s. Cold air will be in the Rockies, Plains, Great Lakes and Midwest. Highs will be in the 60s and 70s west coast and southern and eastern states.
SPANISH WORD OF THE DAY
Let's do snow or nieve , pronounced knee-EH-vay. Let it nieve, let it nieve, let it nieve...doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it?
No need to head out shopping for the youngsters on your list. Just order send me an email to info@frankandpaco.com and enjoy the pre-Christmas special (through Dec. 22nd) to get our award winning volume 1 DVD or newly released volume 2 DVD of the Frank & Paco series for $10 (even--that includes the tax in Texas--outside of Texas it will be even lower than $10) and free shipping. I will send it to you and you can mail me a check or money order.
Or you can order via the following web sites for a higher amount: http://www.frankandpaco.com/, http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.bn.com/, http://www.bestbuy.com/, or http://www.ebay.com/. By the way, I found the DVD on the shelves on another Barnes & Noble store (this one in Sugar Land).
AND MORE
I was so proud of my hurricane expert buddy Lew Fincher, who appeared in Tuesday night's Ghostbusters on Discovery Channel. He was just there to give historical details about the hurricane history of Galveston. The Ghostbusters were checking out some ghostly goings on at The Galvez Hotel. A few years ago, I heard that the new Holiday Inn on the east side is even more haunted. But, I couldn't find anything about it on the net. What I did find is a cool site with all kinds of hauntings in Texas. Check it out:
http://www.texasghosthunters.com/.
Spooky!!!
Have a terrific Thursday!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Okay Houston...here's the deal...yep...it's going to snow Friday afternoon into Friday evening. Probably no accumulations except on exposed surfaces Friday evening because the temperatures the ground will still be too warm. This will not be a pipe freezing situation. Just looked at the latest data and the 1000-500 mb thicknesses and 850 mb temperatures should be low enough to support snow. That combined with an approaching upper storm and enough moisture will all snow as early as early afternoon Friday. This reminds of last December 10th...see my photos way down on the right. It will be short lived just as that was with skies clearing by Saturday morning.
For Houston on Thursday, it will be a chilly day with sunshine. Friday will be cloudy with cold rain turning to snow/rain mix and then snow. Saturday will be sunny and cool with light freeze early. Then some clouds return Sunday with a slight warmup.
In the nation on Thursday, look for highs in the teens over the northern Plains and some snow from the western Great Lakes to Denver. Southern Florida will be balmy in the 80s. Cold air will be in the Rockies, Plains, Great Lakes and Midwest. Highs will be in the 60s and 70s west coast and southern and eastern states.
SPANISH WORD OF THE DAY
Let's do snow or nieve , pronounced knee-EH-vay. Let it nieve, let it nieve, let it nieve...doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it?
No need to head out shopping for the youngsters on your list. Just order send me an email to info@frankandpaco.com and enjoy the pre-Christmas special (through Dec. 22nd) to get our award winning volume 1 DVD or newly released volume 2 DVD of the Frank & Paco series for $10 (even--that includes the tax in Texas--outside of Texas it will be even lower than $10) and free shipping. I will send it to you and you can mail me a check or money order.
Or you can order via the following web sites for a higher amount: http://www.frankandpaco.com/, http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.bn.com/, http://www.bestbuy.com/, or http://www.ebay.com/. By the way, I found the DVD on the shelves on another Barnes & Noble store (this one in Sugar Land).
AND MORE
I was so proud of my hurricane expert buddy Lew Fincher, who appeared in Tuesday night's Ghostbusters on Discovery Channel. He was just there to give historical details about the hurricane history of Galveston. The Ghostbusters were checking out some ghostly goings on at The Galvez Hotel. A few years ago, I heard that the new Holiday Inn on the east side is even more haunted. But, I couldn't find anything about it on the net. What I did find is a cool site with all kinds of hauntings in Texas. Check it out:
http://www.texasghosthunters.com/.
Spooky!!!
Have a terrific Thursday!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Monday, November 30, 2009
Weather this Week/New Poll/Sunflower Surprise/Special on Frank & Paco DVD
HURRICANES AND WEATHER
Happy last day of hurricane season. I'll let you know if I do a recap. Tropical Atlantic and Pacific are quiet.
Nice and chilly across much of the US thanks to a cold air mass. A cold front, the leading edge of the cold air mass is pushing into the southeast US and producing some thunderstorms. See Storm Prediction Center forecast figure at right. No severe weather is anticipated. Highs today will be in the 30s across the northern tier of states (except for coastal Washington with highs in the 40s). Warm spot will be Florida with highs in the 70s and 80s. Across Texas, highs will be mainly in the 50s. California will have highs in the 60s.
Houston, there will be rain on and off today with more concentrated rain overnight and on Tuesday. Rain should be gone by Wednesday. It will be chilly...lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s through Thursday and in the 30s (maybe even a light freeze for outlying areas) early Friday. Warming through the weekend with some showers on Sunday.
SPANISH WORD OF THE DAY
Let's do special or especial, pronounced esh-pehs-see-AL. I have an especial on our DVD for only readers of this blog. See the AND MORE for details.
If don't want to use the special, Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco, Volumes 1 and 2 are available from www.frankandpaco.com, www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.bestbuy.com, and www.ebay.com. Also, you can find Volume 1 on the shelf at Barnes and Noble. Volume 2 should be there soon.
AND MORE
Through December 22nd, Special Offer on Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco for Friends and Family - $10 even for each with free shipping! Just email me directly at info@frankandpaco.com. I will invoice you with the shipment and you can send me a check or money order. I can't accept credit cards when I do it this way. Just specify how many of each of the following you want:
Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco Vol. 1
Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco Vol. 2
Aprendamos Ingles con Frank y Paco Vol. 1 (this is the ESL version for Spanish speakers).
Our poll about shopping progress by 10 pm Friday (after Thanksgiving) is closed. 40% said they will have done no shopping at all. 40% said they would have completed just a bit. And 20% said they would have completed most. No one said All, 1/2, or a 1/4. Thanks to all who participated. Only one answer was allowed.
Our new poll comes courtesy of Megan. Which of the Twilight movies did you like more, the first or second or have you only seen one or neither? Only one answer is allowed. Thanks in advance for participating.
Hope you enjoy the sunflower photo at right. Sarah's class planted these seeds and brought them home. Take a look Mrs. Mantini and Mrs. Cadenhead! I put it in our vegetable garden in the back. This tenacious little bugger has survived chilly weather and at least one child stepping on it.
Have a great week everyone!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Happy last day of hurricane season. I'll let you know if I do a recap. Tropical Atlantic and Pacific are quiet.
Nice and chilly across much of the US thanks to a cold air mass. A cold front, the leading edge of the cold air mass is pushing into the southeast US and producing some thunderstorms. See Storm Prediction Center forecast figure at right. No severe weather is anticipated. Highs today will be in the 30s across the northern tier of states (except for coastal Washington with highs in the 40s). Warm spot will be Florida with highs in the 70s and 80s. Across Texas, highs will be mainly in the 50s. California will have highs in the 60s.
Houston, there will be rain on and off today with more concentrated rain overnight and on Tuesday. Rain should be gone by Wednesday. It will be chilly...lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s through Thursday and in the 30s (maybe even a light freeze for outlying areas) early Friday. Warming through the weekend with some showers on Sunday.
SPANISH WORD OF THE DAY
Let's do special or especial, pronounced esh-pehs-see-AL. I have an especial on our DVD for only readers of this blog. See the AND MORE for details.
If don't want to use the special, Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco, Volumes 1 and 2 are available from www.frankandpaco.com, www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.bestbuy.com, and www.ebay.com. Also, you can find Volume 1 on the shelf at Barnes and Noble. Volume 2 should be there soon.
AND MORE
Through December 22nd, Special Offer on Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco for Friends and Family - $10 even for each with free shipping! Just email me directly at info@frankandpaco.com. I will invoice you with the shipment and you can send me a check or money order. I can't accept credit cards when I do it this way. Just specify how many of each of the following you want:
Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco Vol. 1
Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco Vol. 2
Aprendamos Ingles con Frank y Paco Vol. 1 (this is the ESL version for Spanish speakers).
Our poll about shopping progress by 10 pm Friday (after Thanksgiving) is closed. 40% said they will have done no shopping at all. 40% said they would have completed just a bit. And 20% said they would have completed most. No one said All, 1/2, or a 1/4. Thanks to all who participated. Only one answer was allowed.
Our new poll comes courtesy of Megan. Which of the Twilight movies did you like more, the first or second or have you only seen one or neither? Only one answer is allowed. Thanks in advance for participating.
Hope you enjoy the sunflower photo at right. Sarah's class planted these seeds and brought them home. Take a look Mrs. Mantini and Mrs. Cadenhead! I put it in our vegetable garden in the back. This tenacious little bugger has survived chilly weather and at least one child stepping on it.
Have a great week everyone!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Friday, November 27, 2009
Weekend Weather Wrapup/Holiday Shopping Progress
HURRICANES AND WEATHER
Tropical Atlantic and Pacific are quiet.
A few travel trouble spots on Saturday...some scattered thunderstorms for coastal southern California and parts of New Mexico and Arizona. Temperature wise, we're looking at 40s and a few 30s (extreme north and higher elevations) for the northwest, Rockies, Great Lakes, northeast and northern plains. Elsewhere highs will be in the 50s to 70s.
On Sunday, there will be some thunderstorms and rain from Texas all the way into the Great Lakes. There might even be some rain/snow mix around the Great Lakes. From the Great Lakes west and south in the desert southwest, highs will generally be in the 30s and 40s. The southeast and coastal California will be in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Houston will be cool early Saturday with increasing humity and some clouds...highs in low 70s. Sunday will be milder with lows in the 60s and highs in the mid to upper 70s and thunderstorms possible later in the day. Look for it to be cool Monday through Wednesday with some rain Monday and Tuesday as a closed low over the southwest US lifts northeastward and produces rain.
SPANISH WORD OF THE DAY
Let's do championship or campeonato, pronounced cahmp-pay-oh-NAH-toe. My Aggies didn't win, but I know someone who just won a state campeonato. See the AND MORE section for details.
Judging by the results of our poll on shopping progress at this point, many of you have a long way to go. Let me make your life easier. Your friends and family will thank you win you get them the Volumes 1 and/or 2 DVDs of Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco. By the way, big news!!! Megan found one of our DVDs on the shelf of Barnes and Noble store on the west side. You can also order these educational and entertaining DVDS through http://www.frankandpaco.com/, http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.ebay.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, and http://www.bestbuy.com/.
AND MORE
And this one comes to you from the department of "I threw my brain out the window"...driving westbound on Highway 290 (outside Houston) on Thursday afternoon, I become concerned and perplexed as the traffic almost comes to a halt. I decide to get to into the left lane which is moving a bit and I can't help but notice all the Aggie stickers and flags etc. on the cars. And I think, well this is the way you go if you are heading to A & M. But then I start noticing Longhorn stickers etc. and then I realize just where I am...very close to the turnoff to Highway 6 and what is happening in College Station in just a couple hours--why the big Aggie/Longhorn game. And I did get to watch it, once I got to my sister's in Austin. Sorry about how it turned out Aggies. After staying the night and visiting with family all day, Sarah and I headed back home..arriving just a little while ago.
Speaking of football on a more happy note...Congratulations to the St. Albert's football team of Council Bluffs, IA for winning the state football championship. Don't even ask me what division. I have no idea. But, I do know they have a great team, made even better because my nephew Nick is on the team.
Well, did you go shopping today? As I write this post, only a little time left to answer the poll about how much shopping you completed by 10 pm today.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone and safe travel home!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
Tropical Atlantic and Pacific are quiet.
A few travel trouble spots on Saturday...some scattered thunderstorms for coastal southern California and parts of New Mexico and Arizona. Temperature wise, we're looking at 40s and a few 30s (extreme north and higher elevations) for the northwest, Rockies, Great Lakes, northeast and northern plains. Elsewhere highs will be in the 50s to 70s.
On Sunday, there will be some thunderstorms and rain from Texas all the way into the Great Lakes. There might even be some rain/snow mix around the Great Lakes. From the Great Lakes west and south in the desert southwest, highs will generally be in the 30s and 40s. The southeast and coastal California will be in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Houston will be cool early Saturday with increasing humity and some clouds...highs in low 70s. Sunday will be milder with lows in the 60s and highs in the mid to upper 70s and thunderstorms possible later in the day. Look for it to be cool Monday through Wednesday with some rain Monday and Tuesday as a closed low over the southwest US lifts northeastward and produces rain.
SPANISH WORD OF THE DAY
Let's do championship or campeonato, pronounced cahmp-pay-oh-NAH-toe. My Aggies didn't win, but I know someone who just won a state campeonato. See the AND MORE section for details.
Judging by the results of our poll on shopping progress at this point, many of you have a long way to go. Let me make your life easier. Your friends and family will thank you win you get them the Volumes 1 and/or 2 DVDs of Let's Learn Spanish with Frank & Paco. By the way, big news!!! Megan found one of our DVDs on the shelf of Barnes and Noble store on the west side. You can also order these educational and entertaining DVDS through http://www.frankandpaco.com/, http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.ebay.com/, http://www.barnesandnoble.com/, and http://www.bestbuy.com/.
AND MORE
And this one comes to you from the department of "I threw my brain out the window"...driving westbound on Highway 290 (outside Houston) on Thursday afternoon, I become concerned and perplexed as the traffic almost comes to a halt. I decide to get to into the left lane which is moving a bit and I can't help but notice all the Aggie stickers and flags etc. on the cars. And I think, well this is the way you go if you are heading to A & M. But then I start noticing Longhorn stickers etc. and then I realize just where I am...very close to the turnoff to Highway 6 and what is happening in College Station in just a couple hours--why the big Aggie/Longhorn game. And I did get to watch it, once I got to my sister's in Austin. Sorry about how it turned out Aggies. After staying the night and visiting with family all day, Sarah and I headed back home..arriving just a little while ago.
Speaking of football on a more happy note...Congratulations to the St. Albert's football team of Council Bluffs, IA for winning the state football championship. Don't even ask me what division. I have no idea. But, I do know they have a great team, made even better because my nephew Nick is on the team.
Well, did you go shopping today? As I write this post, only a little time left to answer the poll about how much shopping you completed by 10 pm today.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone and safe travel home!
Cecilia Sinclair
Wonder Weather Woman
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