Texas to get hit with freezing rain, sleet
Source: AP-Excite
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
A storm blamed for at least eight deaths in the West was expected to bring freezing rain and sleet to parts of Texas as it continued making its way through the Southwest before moving east ahead of Thanksgiving.
The National Weather Service said late Sunday night that a winter storm warning for most of North Texas had been replaced with a winter weather advisory through noon Monday. A mix of rain, light freezing rain and light sleet was expected, but meteorologist Steve Fano with the weather service's Dallas-Fort Worth office said the temperatures would not be as cold as initially forecast.
"They will still go below freezing in some places, just not as much below freezing as we initially thought," Fano said.
Meteorologists said they expected the Arctic mass to head south and east and threaten plans for Tuesday and Wednesday as people hit the roads and airports for some of the busiest travel days of the year.
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Icicles formed on a photinia bush after the first round of winter weather moved through Tarrant county, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. A second, stronger round of freezing precipitation is expected to hit north Texas Sunday night and Monday morning. (AP Photo/Star-Telegram, David Kent)
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Both of our regions get ice storms on a semi-regular basis, but y'all seem to ( mostly ) leave your brains on the fireplace mantle, right before grabbing your car keys and heading out into traffic. What's up with that? Seriously.
You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
I thought it was a vegetable 
The whole place shuts down. Best time if year! 
you call your boss and say "I ain't driving in this shit!"
ETA, of course it only lasts a day or two--it's in the upper 80s again soon enough.
That is where the 1950 Thanksgiving day snow Storm started and where most deep snows in Pittsburgh come from. Philadelphia's deep snow come up the coast, but the mountains stop them before they get to Pittsburgh. The big storms for Pittsburgh starts in Texas then go up the Mississippi River then the Ohio to Pittsburgh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Appalachian_Storm_of_November_1950
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http://duquesnehunky.com/2011/11/14/thanksgiving-1950-it-snowed-and-snowed-and-snowed/
Saturday and Sunday that was all the media coverage...to the point that DfW airport "pre cancelled"
300 flights on Sunday (and another 190 for Monday) so there would be less stranded people at the airport. My daughter's movie theater sanded their parking lot because of the forecast.
City of Dallas declared "Ice Force Level 1" on Sunday (talk about making it sound like a video game!).
In the end, after 48 hrs of media hype, Dallas got nothing. Probably couldn't have found a patch of ice to save your life. I'm sure the thousands of passengers were not happy to see nothing happen yet their flights were cancelled. And now ALL those people from Sunday and Monday will be cramming into the airport midweek right before Tgiving with those who have midweek flights.
Our local weather people do great in the springtime with tornado season. Not so much when it comes to winter weather. One year they predicted an inch of snow, we ended up with 7 inches within hours. Another year they kept tacking on inches predictions as the day went on, ("1-2 inches, um, 4-5 inches, um, we're just aren't sure anymore cuz it won't stop snowing"
. Another time they swore the snow would stay down by Waco and we awoke to icy snow blizzard that shut down schools. Their response "oh, it came north". No shit.
I've learned to expect the opposite of what they predict.
