Posted on 01/22/2025 8:01:50 AM PST by texas booster
The Houston area looked more like a snow globe on Tuesday morning than it has in the last half-century, with snowfall from Winter Storm Enzo totaling over six inches in the most wintry precipitation-hit area.
The National Weather Service put out its final snow accumulation report on Tuesday afternoon, reporting snow totals from around the Houston region. Beaumont took the cake with six inches of snow on the ground. Baytown came in a close second with about 5.5 inches. See the NWS full report here.
"There was clearly a band from about Bellaire through Liberty County to just north of Beaumont and another from Bolivar into Sabine Pass," Space City Weather's Matt Lanza wrote. "Those tended to be the champions of the storm."
El Lago saw over four inches, and Lake Charles ended up with just shy of five inches, the third-most snow on record in that part of the region.
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Lanza reported that the border between Houston and West University received four inches, and League City, where Space City meteorologist Eric Berger is based, saw about two inches.
Most of the Houston area fell within this range of two to four inches of snow.
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Time to commiserate with FReepers down in Houston. Looks like the worst of it headed out east to Beaumont.
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My daughter in the Heights measured right at 4 inches. (The Heights is near downtown.)
People I know in Friendswood were sledding on 3-5 inches. (Friendswood is halfway to Galveston down I-45.)
Houston snow is mostly gone this morning. Some rough sledding left on frozen grass/snow.
Just southeast of Cypress (northwest Houston) got only 1.5 inches.
Check out these historic snowfall totals across the Gulf Coast Region with up to a foot of snow in two areas: southeast Louisiana including New Orleans and also the Florida Panhandle into extreme southwestern Georgia. The Low Country of the Carolinas underperformed a bit due to mixing in with sleet.
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I watched radar. The snow bands were really varied and streaky north of Houston. It got more solid as Gulf (of America) moisture increased as the system moved east.
That’s a lot of record amounts that probably won’t be broken for a long time.
When we lived there in the 70-80’ there was snow, and a hurricane.
It is called weather. Mind, a winter in Houston lasts about 30 minutes.
That big sign says ALABAMA. Where is the location?
I’ve heard of “Lake Effect Snow”, but not “Gulf Effect Snow”.
I’m near Copperfield / Towne Lake & figure we got around 2 inches.
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Where is the global warming that according to Al Gore will make the oceans boiling hot? Less than 5 years left, though Trump pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord will push the apocalypse up by a year or two.
Thanks.
The last time I was in Houston was around 1968 and it was terribly hot and humid.
The snow will be gone in a short time.
If we didn’t have Globull warming, we’d really be cold.
In Aldine we had about 3 inches
My kids in Sugar Land got a heap. Grandkids were playing in the back yard for hours.
And the local media as been gloating about how the new battery storage has been able to cover for ERCOT's solar production over night.
So I guess that's why my Centerpoint service fee has suddenly doubled from my previous electricity contract.
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