Let it snow...ice?

I wondered about the possibility of severe weather this weekend, since I'll be on the road.

And here we have it:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=fwd&wwa=special%20weather%20statement

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
346 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-112200-ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-WISE-YOUNG-

346 AM CST THU JAN 11 2007

...COLD TEMPERATURES FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THIS WEEKEND ALONG
WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN OVER NORTHWEST PARTS
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...

A FRIGID ARCTIC FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW APPROACHES THE REGION. WITH ABUNDANT GULF MOISTURE IN PLACE...THE RESULT WILL BE WIDESPREAD RAIN AND TEMPERATURES PLUMMETING BEHIND THE FRONT. THE CONCERN FOR NORTH TEXAS IS IF TEMPERATURES WILL FALL BELOW FREEZING BEFORE THE RAIN ENDS. AT THE PRESENT TIME...IT APPEARS THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY OVER THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE AREA...GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A COMANCHE...WEATHERFORD...BONHAM LINE.

THERE STILL REMAINS SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW THIS WINTER WEATHER EVENT WILL UNFOLD IN THE TEXAS-OKLAHOMA REGION. THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS STILL HAVE DIVERSE SOLUTIONS BUT FOR NOW IT APPEARS THAT THE GREATEST THREAT OF WINTER WEATHER WILL BE TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF NORTH TEXAS. HOWEVER...JUST A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN THE TRACK OF THE SYSTEM COULD MAKE A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE TO OUR AREA. THUS...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WILL CONTINUE TO ANALYZE INCOMING WEATHER DATA AND GENERATE MORE PRECISE FORECASTS ON THIS WINTER WEATHER OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. RESIDENTS OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN INFORMED OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

REMEMBER...YOU CAN ALSO KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST FORECASTS AND MUCH MORE ON OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/FORTWORTH

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It could be ugly, or it could be nothing. And isn't that the way it always is with winter weather?