The **Official** Texas weather thread.

Fun little storm we had come through here.

Why does Plano set off the emergency sirens and announce tornado warnings when the tornado warning area wasn't anywhere within 10 miles of Plano?

15-20 minutes after the worst of the storm hit too.

This is one crazy winter. I've lost track of how many snowstorms y'all have had. While in Seattle, we haven't had any snow at all and up in Whistler at the Olympics, they've been trucking snow in from a mountain that is three hours away. Whistler finally got a little snowfall yesterday.

wfaaweather

new record!!!!! as of 9pm dfw has received 9.4 inches of snow. this is the largest snowstorm ever on record for dfw!!!!

North Texas hasn't seen a winter this white in 32 years.

The 5.7 inches of snow that had fallen by 2 p.m. at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport on Thursday shot the total seasonal accumulation to 8.9 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

That makes it the seventh-snowiest season ever.

It's far below, however, the 17.6 inches that fell in 1977-1978, still the snowiest on record in Dallas-Fort Worth.

That year, 13.5 inches fell here in February alone, also a record.

The record for snowfall in a 24-hour period is 12.1 inches recorded Jan. 15-16, 1964. The most snowfall in one calendar day occurred on Jan. 15, 1964, and Jan. 14, 1917, when 7.8 inches fell.

As snow continued to fall Thursday afternoon, winter 2009-2010 seemed poised to rise further on the list, said Bill Bunting, a meteorologist with the weather service. The system is not supposed to move out of North Texas until tonight.

The sixth-most snow to fall here was 9.2 inches in 1916-1917, records show.

"We'll keep creeping up there but it's hard to say how high we'll go," Bunting said.

The ingredients for a snowy season are simple: Multiple upper storm systems supported by temperatures cold enough to turn moisture to snow. Those two elements have collided more than once over North Texas this year.

"It's definitely one of those winters," he said. "You never really know when you'll get one."

D/FW - SNOWIEST SEASONS
1 - 17.6 1977-78
2 - 15.3 1963-64
3 - 13.5 1923-24
4 - 10.4 1976-77
5 - 9.5 1909-10
6 - 9.2 1916-17
7 - 8.9 2009-10*
8 - 8.8 1947-48
9 - 8.1 1937-38
10 - 7.3 1965-66 / 1941-42

D/FW - MOST SNOW IN FEBRUARY
1 - 13.5 1978
2 - 7.5 1924
3 - 5.7 2009*

wfaaweather

new record!!!!! as of 9pm dfw has received 9.4 inches of snow. this is the largest snowstorm ever on record for dfw!!!!