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Marine Weather and Tides Waco, TX Version 3.4

What's New / NOTES 10/6/2018 Colors of tide XTide graphs changed to emphasize that they were upgraded. See next note. Comments welcome. 10/4/2018 I have fixed XTide and updated the harmonic files. There were some name changes so you might have to click EDIT to find the new station name.

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Sunrise 7:06AM

Sunset 6:18PM

Sunday February 17, 2019 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)

Moonrise 4:15PM

Moonset 5:33AM

Illumination 98%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Waco, TX

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Area Discussion for - Fort Worth, TX

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Fxus64 kfwd 172333 afdfwd area forecast discussion national weather service fort worth tx 533 pm cst Sun feb 17 2019 Aviation 00z tafs high pressure will continue to build into the region overnight with northerly flow around 10 kt. Winds will gradually become a little more easterly through the day Monday, otherwise, high clouds will continue to stream across the region.VFR CIGS around 20,000 ft will prevail through the period. Dunn Short term issued 210 pm cst Sun feb 17 2019 tonight a tranquil night is expected across north and central texas as dry air invades from the north. Intermittent bands of cirrus will stream in overhead, but mostly clear skies should prevail for most locales. Surface flow will remain northerly which should equate to persistent cold air advection. Guidance offers varying solutions on just how cold it will get, but with modest breezes in the surface-925mb layer, radiational cooling processes may be hindered. Regardless, temperatures should range between the mid upper 20s along the red river to low to mid 30s elsewhere. A repeat of dense fog appears unlikely given the dry air advection and slightly perturbed pbl flow. A denser deck of mid and upper level cloud cover may attempt to lift northward as southwesterly 700mb flow appears to strengthen. Bain Long term issued 210 pm cst Sun feb 17 2019 Monday to next weekend main focus of the extended will be multiple rounds of potential rainfall and thunderstorms across our region, primarily on Tuesday and then again Thursday through Saturday. For the second period of rainfall, there are many details to be determined over the coming days, and lower spatial predictability (at least for our local purposes) of several synoptic-scale features precludes going "all in" for any one day during the latter half of the week. More details below. Meanwhile, despite decreasing northeasterly winds on Monday, reinvigorated upper-level jet ascent to our southwest should promote a fairly dense plume of clouds around 25-35 kft. In other words, we will trade slackening surface cold-air advection for a notable reduction of insolation. The end result should be highs a few degrees below those of today, perhaps struggling to reach 50 across most of north texas and the lower 50s across central texas. With that said, lighter wind speeds should make for a slightly more pleasant morning. Upstream of the region, a northerly jet will advance around the base of a deep western trough through Monday night, amplifying the trough and shifting it eastward in the process. Height falls will slowly overspread the region, inducing a fairly robust mass response along a low-level warm front draped to our southeast. Isentropic ascent atop our stubborn, cold surface air will likely offer drizzle initially and then more notable rainfall to much of our area, especially east of i-35, late Monday night into Tuesday. Forecast soundings illustrate an adequate elevated mixed layer atop focused warm advection (near 925-850mb) to produce parcel buoyancy deep enough for a few storms on Tuesday. While significant flooding issues are not anticipated, locally heavy rain could offer a transient potential for minor flooding, and

this threat will have to be watched accordingly. Strong convective-layer flow may also encourage some small hail, but severe weather is not anticipated at this time. As for winter weather, any late Monday Tuesday morning potential across our northwest continues to look rather bleak due to marginal surface temps so do not plan to re-introduce freezing precipitation during this time period. As the shortwave trough responsible for our b-e-a-utiful Tuesday ejects away from the region, lingering low-level moisture, weakening winds, and subtle southwesterly flow impulses may foster some fog and drizzle Tuesday night, especially north of i-20. While temperatures will be close to freezing west of us-281, they should be too marginal for any surface impacts. Furthermore, most drizzle fog should be relegated to times prior to when more earnest west northwesterly cold advection commences (which is likely when temps would fall below freezing). Thus, given the low potential for freezing precip (and even lower potential for impacts), decided to remove any freezing mention from the grids. We should clear some and warm slightly on Wednesday (although with lingering upper-level clouds), especially where a light downslope wind component is expected towards the big country. A slow warming trend continues through the end of the week, as a stale cold-air reservoir to the northeast slowly retreats. As for precipitation chances, areas east of i-35 hold the highest potential for realizing rainfall Thursday into Saturday, given the positioning of a sloped warm-front surface from south-central texas to the sabine valley. An initial chance of rain, primarily driven by mid upper jet processes, passes the region Thursday. Quickly in its wake, a slightly more amplified sub-tropical impulse will enhance isentropic ascent and related rain chances once again on Friday. A few embedded thunderstorms will be possible as well. We are still monitoring the possibility of strong storms on Saturday, in conjunction with the approach of a rather sharp mid- level cyclone transiting near across north texas. Richer theta-e air will slowly be replacing a cool, stable near-surface air mass on Saturday, but the exact track of the mid-level system will significantly influence boundary-layer thermodynamic evolution, plus the amount of low-level convergence available for surface parcels to achieve their respective lfcs ahead of veering flow. And this track will be modulated by details (e.G., sub-tropical atlantic ridge strength, lead impulse influences, etc.) that are simply too unknown to offer much detail on any strong severe potential. At present, the most likely area for any severe weather should be east of north and central texas, but at least a few strong storms seems within reason across our area. Stay tuned. Picca Preliminary point temps pops Dallas-ft. Worth 32 48 37 42 36 0 0 20 80 20 waco 35 51 39 45 38 0 0 30 90 20 paris 29 47 35 39 35 0 0 20 80 50 denton 29 46 35 41 33 0 0 20 80 20 mckinney 29 47 36 41 34 0 0 20 80 30 dallas 33 48 38 42 36 0 0 30 80 20 terrell 33 49 37 43 36 0 0 30 90 30 corsicana 36 52 38 43 38 0 0 30 90 30 temple 36 53 40 47 39 0 0 30 90 30 mineral wells 29 47 33 40 32 0 0 20 80 20 Fwd watches warnings advisories None.

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Waco, Waco Regional Airport, TX	4 mi	70 min	N 8	10.00 mi	Fair	46°F	32°F	58%	1016.5 hPa

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Wind Forecast for Fort Worth, TX (22,6,7,8)

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