North Texas residents are advised to avoid unnecessary driving after the metroplex was blanketed in snow and ice Sunday night.
The National Weather Service (NWS) for Fort Worth/Dallas has issued four guidelines for North Texas residents concerning Monday’s snow and ice-covered roads. These guidelines include staying home if possible, checking road conditions in advance, delaying or planning alternative routes, and slowing down and allowing additional time to travel.
According to NWS, travel impacts varied greatly across North and Central Texas on the morning of January 15, with the most widespread and significant impacts happening across Central North Texas and Eastern Central Texas.
“Many surface roads across North Texas are covered with snow and are slick,” NWS stated on its website. “Ice and sleet on roads across eastern Central Texas will make travel dangerous! Please avoid travel if you are in these areas unless necessary. Elsewhere, most roads are dry with little to no travel impacts.”
Conditions at Dallas-area airports hit record-low temperatures following the January 14 mix of sub-freezing weather and overnight precipitation. As of January 15, at 10 a.m., Dallas Love Field and DFW International Airport were both experiencing a temperature of 11°F (-12°C) and a wind chill of -4°F (-20°C), according to NWS.
Roughly 11% of departing flights out of DFW Airport saw delays, with 5% being cancelations, according to data from flight tracking site FlightAware. Meanwhile, Dallas Love Field saw 4% of outgoing flights delayed and 21% canceled as of the morning of January 15.
NWS has issued a wind chill advisory until noon on January 16.
According to Oncor, Dallas County was experiencing approximately 62 outages across 755 residents as of January 15 at 11:15 a.m., down from 2,600 residents at 9:15 a.m.
“Team members are trained to safely and efficiently work in low temperatures and will work around the clock, so long as weather conditions allow,” Oncor says on its website.
