Daily Winter Elsewhere Discussion Thread

Dallas area goes from low 80's today to possible sleet and freezing rain Wednesday.

Ive always been fastinated by exteme temperature changes. The frontal ones interest me most...from warm to cold. Many of the cold to warm are produced by other phenomena like Chinook winds and collapsed temperature inversions in mountain valley areas.



Https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/extreme-short-duration-temperature-changes-us

I've been able to paste links on the mobile version when out and about. I'd usually upload to IMGBB or IMGUR, and copy one of their links to paste here.

Kind of enjoying reading the TX forum as the shallow cold air busts even the very short term forecasts.

What a tough job being a MET around Arctic fronts. Knowing models don't handle it well and drastically changing the forecast is tough to do in front of the public

But yet during hurricane season some on the Tx forum were acting upset that the canes kept coming for us and not them. Until they see once the excitement has passed with having to do repairs 6 months later and still lots to do. Some in Dallas and Ok, were complaining about not getting snow. But they get it every winter. No big deal to go a few weeks without. Some of us on the gulf coast esp the south shore are lucky to see a single flake every 10 years

Looks like the ice event in Texas hasn't quite played out as far as spread and amounts. Still hundreds of accidents in the dallas area but probably they are overall thankful.

Still getting some snow in the Drakensburg mountains of Lesotho in southern Africa which is moving well into spring

Lesotho is an interesting country geographically speaking. It's the only country completely surrounded by one other country.

It's also the only country with the lowest elevation above 1000 meters. It's lowest elevation is 1,400 metres (4,593 ft).

"Lesotho is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) in elevation.[6] The highest point is the peak of the Thabana Ntlenyana mountain, which reaches an elevation of 3,482 metres (11,424 ft).[1] Over 80% of Lesotho lies above 1,800 metres (5,906 ft)."

Wikipedia