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Gene Norman: December 2008 ArchivesAnother round of winter weather follows the 15th cold front to invade Southeast Texas this fall. Officially, winter doesn't begin until this Sunday, but we've already seen snowflakes and by Tuesday morning, there could be ice on bridges and overpasses north and west of Houston. Officially, the National Weather Service has issued a Freezing Rain Advisory for several counties north and west of Houston: >> Continue reading: First Snow, Now Ice - Yikes!! Did you see the moon tonight? If you thought it looked big and bright, you're right! This month, the moon is at perigee. That means the moon is closest to the Earth, so it's bigger in our sky. The moon orbits the Earth in an elliptical orbit, so it's not a circle, but more like this:
This was the scene Wednesday on the Jesse Jones bridge (Beltway... That was the reaction around here when I uttered those words during tonight's newscasts. Computer models are showing that it will get very cold here after the front that brings Tuesday's rain moves through. Okay, we've seen a few bouts of chilly air move in, but this time, there's something else going on. In the upper levels of the atmosphere, a pocket of very cold, dense air will slide all the way down to south Texas late Tuesday and then ...
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