Snow in the Wrong Place by auntietk
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Okay, so snow in December isn't that unusual, right? Except that we're in what's known as Deep-South Texas, very near the Rio Grande River. It hasn't snowed here, they say, since 2004.
We're at about the same latitude as Miami, Florida. If we were in Egypt, we would be south of Cairo.
This wasn't a dusting, either! We got accumulation! Lots of fat, wet, snow that piled up. Of course it was gone two hours later, but still. This was the real thing! We're just outside of Edinburg, btw. They mention us in the following report from Weather Underground:
South Texas Snow First in Over a Decade
Snow fell as far south as Brownsville on Friday, with 0.3 inch of accumulation reported at the city's airport. This was only the third measurable – defined as at least 0.1 inch – snow event on record in one of America's southernmost cities, located roughly the same latitude as Miami.
Christmas Day 2004 was the last accumulating snow in Brownsville. Before 2004, the last time it snowed was in the winter of 1895-96, according to the National Weather Service.
Just outside of Brownsville, about an inch of snow was measured in Edinburg.
That's unusual enough. What was more interesting: Three days earlier, they had the nation's hottest daily high temperature, just shy of 90 degrees.
Just to the north, thundersnow was reported in Raymondville on Friday morning, with snowfall rates around 1 inch per hour.
Comments (8)
Faemike55
and here in Washington, at least in the southern part, it is just cold and dry. Are you sure you wanted to travel south for the winter? great shot
wysiwig
Not Miami but it snowed yesterday in Pensacola. This looks like more than two inches.
npauling
The weather is really playing up all over the place. Thank goodness the snow didn't last long as the poor palms wouldn't know what fell on them. Here we are sweltering in summer heat that doesn't usually come till February so everyone is wilting and hoping for some rain. I hope your weather warms up for the rest of your stay. 😀
durleybeachbum
Goodness me! Much of the UK ground to a halt yesterday, but we have it wet cold and windy in my town.
RodS
Weird weather everywhere... Still in the 50s mostly here. There's no global warming though..... right?
Cool shot of the Texas snow, Tara!
photosynthesis
Don't know if I've ever seen snow on a palm tree before - definitely an unusual combination...
moochagoo
Perhaps the wrong place but quite good picture.
kgb224
Superb capture Tara. God bless.