PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…CORRECTED
\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON\/GALVESTON TX
\n1158 AM CST THU DEC 11 2008<\/p>\n
…SNOW FALL TOTALS FOR 10 DECEMBER 2008…<\/p>\n
A COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVED ACROSS SOUTHEAST
\nTEXAS YESTERDAY AND HAS PRODUCED A BROAD AREA OF SNOWFALL FOR
\nEARLY DECEMBER. THIS TIES THE MARK FOR THE EARLIEST SNOW FALL IN
\nTHE HOUSTON AREA FOR DECEMBER. IT HAD ALSO SNOWED ON DECEMBER 10
\nIN 1944. LIGHT SNOW FELL DURING THE MORNING OVER PARTS OF
\nWASHINGTON…BURLESON AND BRAZOS COUNTIES ON DECEMBER 10TH. SNOW
\nREDEVELOPED DURING AFTERNOON AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE
\nMOVED INTO THE HOUSTON AREA. SOME AREAS ACROSS THE REGION SAW A
\nCHANGE OF RAIN AND SLEET TO SNOW BY THE EVENING HOURS. SNOWFALL
\nWAS AT ITS HEAVIEST BETWEEN 5 PM AND 10 PM LAST NIGHT MAINLY EAST
\nOF AN INTERSTATE 45 LINE. SNOW FALL AMOUNTS RANGED FROM A TRACE
\nOVER PARTS OF WESTERN BRAZORIA…HARRIS AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES
\nTO AS MUCH 2 TO 3 INCHES IN EASTERN HARRIS COUNTY. TRACE TO ONE
\nINCH AMOUNTS FELL ON GALVESTON ISLAND WITH GENERALLY AN INCH TO
\nTWO INCHES OF SNOW FALL FOR GALVESTON COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST SNOW
\nFALL WAS IN A BAND FROM CHAMBERS COUNTY TO POLK COUNTY WHERE
\nSOME AREAS SAW AS MUCH AS 4 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW.<\/p>\n
WHEN DID IT SNOW LAST? SNOW FLURRIES FELL ACROSS THE EXTREME
\nNORTHERN PARTS OF THE REGION ON MARCH 7TH 2008 BUT THE LAST
\nMEASURABLE SNOW OCCURRED ON APRIL 7TH 2007 NORTH OF A CALDWELL TO
\nLIVINGSTON LINE. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF SNOW FELL ON THAT SATURDAY
\nBEFORE EASTER.<\/p>\n
THE LAST MEASURABLE SNOW TO FALL IN THE HOUSTON AREA FELL ON
\nCHRISTMAS EVE IN 2004. SNOW AMOUNTS WERE A TRACE AT
\nINTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT…BUT SOUTHERN SUBURBS LIKE PEARLAND…
\nWEBSTER AND CLEAR LAKE RECEIVED 2 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW. FURTHER
\nSOUTH A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW AFFECTED WHARTON…FORT BEND AND
\nBRAZORIA COUNTIES.<\/p>\n
FOR WHAT IT`S WORTH…THE LAST LAND FALLING HURRICANE ON GALVESTON
\nISLAND BEFORE HURRICANE IKE WAS HURRICANE JERRY IN 1989. THERE
\nWAS 1.7 INCHES OF SNOW ON DECEMBER 22 1989. HURRICANE ALICIA MADE
\nLANDFALL IN 1983 AND THERE WERE SEVERAL DAYS WITH SNOW FLURRIES IN
\nDECEMBER OF 1983. PERHAPS JUST A COINCIDENCE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If the long range models pan out, a large part of the plains could be seeing a significant winter weather episode beginning next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, as incredible as it sounds, it snowed in southeast Texas, evidently quite a bit, as much as 5 inches in some places. Here is part of a statement from the National Weather Service in Houston: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT…CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON\/GALVESTON TX 1158 AM CST THU DEC 11 2008 …SNOW FALL TOTALS FOR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}