Welcome to the Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather. It’s Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023 – Groundhog Day, and the halfway point of winter. Start your day the right way with everything you need to know about today’s weather. You can also get a quick briefing of national, regional and local weather whenever you like with the FOX Weather Update podcast.
Temperatures are forecast to slowly warm above freezing in Texas and the mid-South later Thursday, eventually bringing a merciful end to the days-long ice storm that has left several people dead from icy highway crashes. Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power across the region.
Aside from multiple road closures throughout the region due to the ice storm, thousands of flights into and out of the region were also heavily impacted, with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport leading the pack with the most cancellations and delays.
Several areas in Texas reported at least a half-inch of ice accretion, with Fischer reporting three-quarters of an inch.
It’s Groundhog Day – the day we shun all our weather apps and maps and get forecast advice from a groundhog in Pennsylvania. (Or perhaps a groundhog in Ohio, New York or Wisconsin?)
You should all know the drill by now, but in case you, like Phil, spend a lot of time hidden inside, if Phil sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter, while not seeing his shadow means an early spring.
We’ll see if he’s right – he’s had a tough run of late. By FOX Weather’s account, Phil is batting four for 10 over the last decade of prognostications, including zero for his last two.
For what it’s worth, here’s what NOAA’s long-range forecast is suggesting.
A video from the shores of Lake Michigan showed a surreal frozen scene: Hundreds of slabs of sand covered in snow and ice are scattered down the beach.
The tide had pulled back at Michigan’s Tiscomia Park Beach when the video was taken, revealing a strip of the beach littered with chunks of sand.
“Every year, as wind blows across the lake, there’s no friction to stop it, so it pushes the sand around,” said photographer Nate Voytovick. “Then, once it freezes over, the sand locks in place.”
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