Christmas came a little early for me this week! Today I received my two Lone Star Emmy awards for outstanding achievement as the top weather anchor in Texas along with our team award for Eye on the Gulf: Hunting Hurricanes. (1/3)

This is cool. Our True Color Satellite captured the SpaceX rocket launch vapor trail!

This rare "derecho" windstorm caused damage from Space City to the Space Coast - that's right, from #Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida! The damage path of wind reports on this map, which started in Austin, Texas, stretches for over 1,000 miles!!!

ICE ALERT: Y’all, this is not a drill! I-10 is getting shut down in both directions west of Houston in Brookshire. Ice is all over the freeway with an overturned 18-wheeler in one direction and another accident in the opposite direction. We are live: abc13.com/live

It's pretty wild right now to see what a difference that "bonus sunshine" is doing for Houston. Under the clouds it's 20° colder just up the road in Huntsville! The freeze line (magenta) will push south again tonight. abc13.com/forecast

WINTER IS COMING: We have high confidence the arctic cold front is coming, and we've now declared Monday (MLK Day) and Tuesday as ABC13 Weather Alert Days due to the possibility of freezing rain and a hard freeze to follow. It also now looks like… (1/2)

Got a dirty vehicle this morning? Here’s why: Satellite imagery from late yesterday shows a significant amount of dust got kicked up by the high winds over West Texas and the Panhandle, and that mixed in with the hailstorms that blew over Houston during the evening. (1/2)

TORNADO WATCH NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM If you're in the highlighted counties, make sure you have a way to receive weather warnings and have a plan in place in case you go under a warning. In addition to a few intense tornadoes (EF-2 or stronger), 70 mph wind gusts...

Emmy gold! 🏆 🏆 For the second year in a row our ABC13 weather team took home the Emmy for our annual hurricane special, and last night I also took home an Emmy in the “Talent - Anchor - Weather” category for my work covering the Pasadena-Deer Park-Baytown tornado.

Take a closer look at the shadows in this picture! What do you see? I'll explain more about what's causing this and how you can see it tomorrow in today's ABC13 Weather Now episode streaming live at noon CT! (Hint: Today's episode is dedicated to tomorrow's solar eclipse!)