12/3/2023 0 Comments Houston past weather![]() Hurricane Harvey's unrelenting rains pounded Houston for nearly five straight days, dropping at least three feet of rain over the entire city of Houston with isolated storm totals of around five feet in Galveston and Jefferson Counties. It's the nightmare we'd all like to forget. Welcome rains returned in October, and the drought was officially busted in the spring of 2012. Wildfires were also a major concern, with over four million acres burning across the state of Texas, including the devastating wildfire that tore through Bastrop in Central Texas. Extreme water conservation measures were put into place as the City of Houston was forced to tap into Lake Conroe to meet its water needs. Numerous water mains broke across the city as the ground shifted from the lack of soil moisture, and over 10,000 trees perished at Memorial Park alone. 27, the temperatures soared to 109 at Bush Airport, tying the all-time record high first established during the great Labor Day heat wave of 2000. The mercury soared into the triple digits a record-smashing 46 days, including every day but one in the month of August. ![]() It was the second driest spring on record, which led to ground-scorching heat the following summer. Locally, Houston received just 12" of rain through the first nine months of the year, which is two feet below normal. Texas is no stranger to drought, but the drought of 2011 was in a class of its own. February alone was 10 degrees warmer than average, easily making it the warmest February in our city's history. The average winter temp of 61.6 degrees made it the warmest December/January/February on record for Houston, and it wasn't even close. Highs were in the 80s for four consecutive days starting on Christmas Eve, setting a new record for the warmest stretch of weather between Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. We often joke about how we only get two weeks of winter in Houston, but this was truly the year of no winter. Warmest Winter on Record Dec 2016 - Feb 2017 ![]() That's Houston's most February days in the 20s since 1895! Unsurprisingly, it hit 80 degrees less than a week later.ĩ. Four more days recorded lows in the 20s at Bush Airport for a total of nine this month. A second arctic front arrived on the 9th, leading to a "flash freeze" on elevated roadways northwest of Houston. 4, and the high temperature failed to climb above freezing for the first time since the historic ice storm of January 1997. A wave of moisture going over the top of the cold air brought freezing rain to the city on Feb. Low temperatures hit the 20s at Bush Airport for five consecutive days, a feat not accomplished since the brutal cold snap of December 1989. The first arctic front arrived before sunrise on Feb.1, dropping the temperature from 70 degrees to 24 degrees by midnight. Two strong arctic cold fronts impacted Houston the first half of this month. ![]() ![]() Here's a look back at the top 10 weather events of the 2010s in southeast Texas. A decade that began with the worst drought in 60 years ended with numerous floods, including the worst rainstorm from a hurricane in United States history. We are closing the books on a decade filled with weather extremes in and around Houston. We saw dramatic rescues, heart wrenching reunions and a city rise to help their neighbors in need during Harvey. ![]()
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