Monday night we had some severe weather. A long squall line came through at 4am or so. I just love night time storms...NOT!! It brought 75mph winds (hurricane strength; CAT 1) and I just learned that there was an EF1 tornado in Irving and Wise. I woke up to find my outside sofa moved 15 feet across the patio, pillows tossed about 25 feet and a generally messy yard filled with debris. We have some fence damage. We're fine, but other people lost trees and some counties really got it bad. We still have to check our roof now.

On Tuesday, we had a massive dust storm with dust coming from West Texas. The sky turned yellow and the sun disappeared. I have to say, kind of wondering what kind of Spring to expect if it's already starting out this way?

I hope everyone else in Texas is fine and have your power back from the storm. I also hope everyone is staying warm and cozy for this early March too.

It's amazing how long it's been since I've updated this thread.  I'll tell you, it's because Texas has had the mildest spring, mild summer, mild fall and so far, the mildest winter of 2025.  We didn't have violent storms in the spring, no severe heat in the summer and no severe storms in the fall.  We have had actually temperatures we can live with for Texas, if you can believe that. December of 2025 was colder than average. January of 2026 has also been mild and warm.  The past nine months, we've had very little rain also.  Until now.  Coming to a Texas resident near you or a friend of yours is coming a to be wild, and hopefully not extreme winter storm this Friday and through the weekend.

Isemageddon and Snowmageddon is coming with very cold temperatures and appears to be more ice and snow that I've ever seen in a forecast.

If you lived in Texas in February of 2021, when we hit ZERO degrees (0F) and so many of us lost power for days, this storm is a storm coming to pay attention too and get ready for.

Praying for our Texas friends and other states that may have extreme weather too. 

We have had the mildest spring of 2026, but summer of 2026 was full of record-breaking hot temperatures that includes 60 days without rain from July to September and the record-breaking high temperatures of September broke all-time records as we've been 100F plus for weeks.

The Old Farmer's Almanac and the Farmer's Almanac predictions for winter 2026 through February have conflicting predictions.  I'm going to go with the Farmer's Almanac that predicts an exceptional wet winter for the south since we are experiencing a Super El Nino.  If it's correct, then Texas may experience a lot more snow or ice storms than normal.  I really hope not, but I'm putting in my bet that we will have a pretty bad winter with very fluctuating temps that will be unfortunately timed with a lot of precipitation of cold rain and perhaps a few ice storms. Let's check in a few months and see if my predictions are right for Texas. :)

It's been a similar story here in the UK 2026! A record breaking Spring, Summer and year overall with droughts and hose pipe bans across the country.

I don't know anything about the Old Farmer's Almanac and the Farmer's Almanac, but we are into Autumn now with plenty of rain and still having unusually warm temperatures for this time of year. Let's see what Winter brings. We have rarely had snow over the last decade or so and morning frosts are getting rarer, the last proper white Christmas (not including the Met Office rules!) was back in 2010!

I think out of the past few summers in the UK, this past summer of yours was the most dramatic in terms of severity in drought and heat.

That's a long time to not have a white Christmas.  Was it more common before 2010 to have more snow and particularly around Christmas?

Looking back, snow has slowly got rarer and rarer over the last 15-20 odd years, like I said, 2010 was the last real white Christmas we had, but here's an interesting fact!

In the UK the Met office has around 405 weather stations, but for the Met Office to declare a white Christmas, only ONE snowflake has to fall and be detected at any of the weather stations on Christmas day.

Along with those rules, all of the betting companies/bookmakers shops follow those rules, so if you bet on a white Christmas, all you need is ONE snowflake to win!

The official definition by the British Met Office and British bookmakers is for snow to be observed falling, however little (even if it melts before it reaches the ground), in the 24 hours of 25 December.

A bit ridiculous really don't you think? LOL