By Lew Patton:
I was driving around on Saturday near Cowboys Stadium with my windows down enjoying a balmy 75 degrees. It almost made me want to go buy some suntan lotion. The traffic around the stadium was crazy enough, but now I have learned the frigid air will return for Tuesday in Texas.
A winter storm is expected to bring below-freezing temperatures to North Texas on Tuesday afternoon, and there’s a chance that freezing precipitation could follow.
The good news is that local authorities may never have been better prepared to deal with bad weather.
“We’ve been planning for this for months,” said Michael Morris , director of transportation at the North Central Texas Council of Governments in Arlington. Weather contingencies were part of the area’s bid to host a Super Bowl.
According to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth, an arctic front will reach Dallas-Fort Worth around noon on Tuesday, plunging temperatures below freezing by that evening and keeping them there until Friday.
Wind chills will be in the teens and 20s by Wednesday.
The National Weather Service’s preliminary forecast for Super Bowl Sunday calls for mostly sunny skies and highs in the upper 50s.
A Weather Service report issued Sunday said there was “significant uncertainty” about when the worst of the weather will arrive; whether it will bring rain, snow, ice or a combination; and whether ice or snow will accumulate.
Great, so there is a chance there will be terrible traffic problems AND icy streets????
By the way all you Packer and Steeler fans….in Texas, you can turn right on red.
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Dallas resident and heroic blogger Lew Patton will be checking in with Super Bowl updates all this week.
