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Guest · #1 Postby **Guest** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:50 am

I have a question that hopefully someone might know the information - here is a list of the snowfall by the year for the Houston area.

My question is was any of these years EL NINO years? Any comments or replies would be greatly appreciated.NOUS44 KHGX 171556
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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1000 AM CST MON DEC 17 2001

...HISTORICAL SNOWFALL STATISTICS FOR HOUSTON...

ALTHOUGH SNOWFALL IS NOT COMMON ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS...IT DOES
OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME. SNOW GENERALLY FALLS ACROSS THE HOUSTON
METROPOLITAN AREA ONCE EVERY SIX YEARS. MOST OF THE SNOW EVENTS THAT
AFFECT THIS REGION OCCUR IN FEBRUARY. SLEET AND EPISODES OF FREEZING
RAIN ARE GENERALLY MORE COMMON. BELIEVE IT OR NOT...SOUTHEAST TEXAS
RECEIVED A SNOWFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE FOOT BACK IN 1895. IF IT
HAPPENED ONCE...IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN.

HERE ARE A FEW SNOWFALL FACTS FOR THE HOUSTON AREA...

LAST 4 INCH OR GREATER SNOWFALL..... 4.4 INCHES ON FEB. 12-13 1960
LAST 1 INCH OR GREATER SNOWFALL..... 1.7 INCHES ON DEC. 22 1989
LAST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL............ 0.1 INCHES ON FEB. 1 1994
LAST TRACE SNOWFALL................. TRACE ON DEC. 17 1996

HERE ARE HOUSTON'S TEN GREATEST SNOWFALLS...

INCHES DATE(S) OF OCCURRENCE
1. 20.0 FEBRUARY 14-15 1895
2. 4.4 FEBRUARY 12-13 1960
3. 3.0 JANUARY 22 1940
4. 2.6 JANUARY 30 1949
5. 2.5 DECEMBER 21-22 1929
6. 2.0 JANUARY 11 1973
7. 1.7 DECEMBER 22 1989
8. 1.4 FEBRUARY 2 1980
9. 1.4 FEBRUARY 17 1973
10. 1.1 FEBRUARY 9 1973

HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MORE MEMORABLE ICE STORMS TO AFFECT THE
HOUSTON AREA...

JANUARY 12-13 1997
JAN/FEB 29-03 1951*
JANUARY 22 1940
DECEMBER 19-21 1924
JANUARY 2 1919

* 1951 - TEMPERATURES REMAINED AT OR BELOW 32 DEGREES FOR 123
CONSECUTIVE HOURS!

Sincerely,
Patricia aka Ticka1

HoumaLa · #2 Postby **HoumaLa** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:26 am

Ticka that is awsome research how did you find it so i can do one on houma thanks

Guest · #3 Postby **Guest** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:31 am

Houma,

I went to Google.com and put in snowfall for houston texas and this was one of the selects. This was a statement put out by the NWS here in the Houston area. Type in snowfall records for houma la or something like that - let me know if you find anything. I do some research from home later tonight if you don't get any results.

Patricia

Anonymous · #4 Postby **Anonymous** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 10:23 am

Some of this information may be inaccurate. There are no sst archives that I can check for all those years.

1960 neutral
1989 la nina
1994 el nino
1996 la nina

HERE ARE HOUSTON'S TEN GREATEST SNOWFALLS...

INCHES DATE(S) OF OCCURRENCE
1895 neutral/la nina
1960 la nina
1940 el nino
1949 la nina
1929 la nina
1973 la nina
1989 la nina
1980 neutral/la nina
1973 la nina

HERE ARE A FEW OF THE MORE MEMORABLE ICE STORMS TO AFFECT THE
HOUSTON AREA...

1997 el nino
1951 el nino
1940 el nino
1924 el nino
1919 el nino

chadtm80 · #5 Postby **chadtm80** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:19 am

TWW HoumaLa has been scouring the net to find out snow history for her area. could you help her out?? or point her in the right direction?

Anonymous · #6 Postby **Anonymous** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:07 pm

Houma, Louisiana snow climatology.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/servlets/SCopt ... a&short=16

Anonymous · #7 Postby **Anonymous** » Wed Jan 29, 2003 2:11 pm

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/servlets/SCopt ... a&short=16

HoumaLa · #8 Postby **HoumaLa** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 7:51 am

thanks for the sites TWW I have look an looked and could find nothing

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