We have crews across North Texas monitoring the latest conditions, especially on bridges and overpasses, which can freeze more easily in frigid weather.
DALLAS — North Texas woke up to frigid temperatures in the teens and wind chills making it feel even colder Wednesday morning. Parts of North Texas were also seeing snow flurries early Wednesday.
Despite the freezing weather and flurries, we weren’t seeing any widespread issues on the roads as of early Wednesday morning, as commuters began hitting the freeways on their way to work.
That being said, we have crews across North Texas monitoring the latest conditions, especially on bridges and overpasses, which can freeze more easily in frigid weather. We were seeing lake effect snow in the Grapevine area, and some areas on the western side of North Texas appeared to have some light snow along the sides of the roads.
TxDOT cameras in Weatherford showed light snow on the roadway and along the side of the road on Farm Road 3325 near Morning Mist.
Here’s a look from the Cockrell Hill area of Dallas County, which was also seeing snow flurries.
However, for the most part, it was too dry for any snow to be sticking on roadways.
While the winter weather this week wasn’t expected to be an ice event, the Texas Department of Transportation was still taking precaution. They’ve closed all TEXpress managed toll lanes across DFW until further notice. The freezing temperatures are expected to last until around noon Thursday, and even when it climbs above freezing, it will still be cold across North Texas into Friday.
Thursday’s winds won’t be quite as strong, but it will be just as cold, if not colder. The highs on Thursday will be only in the middle 30s. We won’t get well above freezing until Friday afternoon. It gets much warmer than that for next weekend and the following week.
