WX: DFW area ops - back to normal ?
 

Just wondering if all the ops in the DFW area are back to normal, post ice-storm a few days ago.

More than likely not. They're trying to clear roads. They have 3 runways open at DFW. It's supposed to get above freezing for the first time since Thursday morning, but only for a few hours. Anything that melts is supposed to re-freeze tonight.

thank you EMB

I'm not down there right now, but that's what I hear.

UPDATE: I called a friend who lives in Ft Worth and he said all the roads are still iced up. He said parts of I-35 are closed so that road crews can clear the ice. Mind you, this is ?? 3-4 days after the storm hit.

I found more info at

https://twitter.com/TxDOTFTWPIO

https://twitter.com/fortworthpd

Yep. Haven't been above freezing to let the stuff melt and we don't have the equipment to deal with it on a normal basis.

I work/fly off the Arlington airport. While a 50' wide strip of runway has been de-iced and cleared, Saturday there was over 1" of ice covering the entire ramp and 95% of all taxiways.

Somehow a straight wing Citation successfully made it to the runway to depart.

Today I expect to see lots of melting that will probably produce a partially usable ramp and I would suspect the main parallel taxiway will be clear.

The big questions is whether all the runoff will make it into the drains, or will pool and re-freeze tonight.

Roads in the area are passible, but slow going.

Hope this helps

Jughead

Good info thanks guys. Have a possible trip this week to FTW and fortunately we (pilots) can push it back somewhat towards later in the week

They had 2000+ still camped in the terminals last night and the airport web site says there have been 400 cancellations today.

wow, ok. gonna let things improve then will make the trip. Seems like that storm was one of the worst ones in recent memory, I don't recall anything like this in awhile