Minus 6 Degrees In Fort Worth With A Winter Storm Warning Plus A Wind Chill Advisory

Currently, as we are nearing the time of the day, on this first Sunday of March, when the sun starts setting, the outer world is chilled to 19 degrees, whilst the wind is making that 19 degrees really feel like -6 degrees.

Minus 6 degrees. Brrrrr.

There have been several bouts of freezing rain today, more so than I have ever experienced before.

The most lacerating bout of freezing rain happened soon upon leaving my abode for the second time today, with the second time being a return to Miss Puerto Rico's because I forgot to leave her faucets dripping.

This afternoon the U.S. National Weather Service updated its earlier WINTER STORM WARNING and added a new warning in the form of a WIND CHILL ADVISORY, which you can read below...

....WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CST MONDAY...

* LOCATION...THIS STATEMENT IS FOR THE COUNTIES OF GRAYSON... DENTON...COLLIN...TARRANT...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...KAUFMAN... JOHNSON...AND ELLIS.

* TIMING...TEMPERATURES ARE ALREADY WELL BELOW FREEZING AND LIGHT ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF SLEET ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* ACCUMULATION...A TRACE TO A FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH OF ICE ACCUMULATION IS FORECAST. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH OF SLEET ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* MAIN IMPACT...LIGHT FREEZING RAIN WILL COAT BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES WITH A GLAZE OF ICE. ANY SLEET ACCUMULATIONS WILL LEAD TO SLICK SPOTS ON ALL ROADWAYS. TRAVEL WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS THIS AFTERNOON.

* WIND CHILL VALUES...WIND CHILL VALUES OF 0 TO -5 DEGREES ARE LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

* OTHER IMPACTS...TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE TEENS TONIGHT. ANY WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS WILL LIKELY FREEZE AT THESE TEMPERATURES MAKING FOR HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THE COLD MAY RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.

When is Global Warming scheduled to arrive at this location on the planet one can not help but wonder?

With The Outer World Feeling Like 3 Degrees North Texas Gets A Wind Chill Advisory

With the outer world being chilled to 13 degrees this morning, soon after the sun arrived, with a wind blowing from the Northwest making that 13 degrees really feel like 3 degrees, I decided I really did not need a hot tub hydrotherapy session this morning.

I am fairly certain this is the coldest snap since I have been in Texas and one of the coldest snaps I have ever experienced.

I recollect, decades ago, returning to Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, after Christmas break and upon exiting the freeway soon seeing a bank temperature sign reading -17 degrees.

That -17 degrees may have been the coldest I've ever experienced. I am not remembering anything colder.

A few minutes ago I heard, on the radio, that we are being advised to cut back on electricity use today so that the need for rolling blackouts does not occur.

So, I have my furnace set to 68 degrees.

I am thinking it might be fun to have myself a mighty fine time today getting real chilly hiking the Tandy Hills.

Perhaps Tandy Falls is frozen into an icicle.

I do not remember when last I laid my eyes upon a frozen waterfall.

I do know I will not be driving to the Coyote Drive-In to go ice skating at Panther Island Ice, because two weeks in to winter Panther Island Ice has closed.

Right when Mother Nature starts providing natural ice, Panther Island Ice shuts down.

Is this some sort of metaphor for the entire Trinity River Vision Boondoggle? I suspect so....