It’s cold. Even though today here in central Texas it’s warmed up, we were 44 just a bit ago, the air is still cold, and the sun is hiding behind light clouds. Yesterday the street began to melt, at least those that got enough sun. My driveway, porch, and front area are in shade and they have not melted yet. Since it’s not light fluffy stuff on it, it is a bottom layer of ice, you can’t just sweep or shovel it off. You have to break up the ice underneath it all.
The houses across from us have yards that are pretty much melted, and driveways that are melted. Well, at least mostly. One house for some reason seemed to have a small snow drift. I fear it iced over. But I did see them coming out the garage taking their dog for a walk. My dog is still stuck using the back yard, since it’s ice from the house to the sidewalk. Most of the side walk is clear, again, it gets sun so it’s been melted.
But due to icy conditions on some roads, schools have been closed both yesterday (expected) and today (not so expected). I’m sure some families are hoping schools open tomorrow just for some relief at home.
I understand the feeling.
Last night, or this morning depending on how you view it, was our coldest. We were supposed to get down to 16. I don’t know if we hit that, but there’s a good chance we did. Today, as I’ve said we are warm, but tonight we’ll be back a bit below freezing – 27 is expected. Tomorrow will be warmer still, should be mid 50’s, with the night at 30. Thursday we climb both day and night above freezing.
Just in time for another cold front come mid Friday and thru the weekend.
Hopefully next week, starting Sunday we should climb above freezing both day and night. With luck, next week we might even get some rain. We can hope.