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A mom in the Southwest Austin neighborhood of Belterra on Sunday takes her son on a sled ride down a hill not typically covered in snow.
Some parts of
Texas experienced a rare heavy snowfall over the weekend as a
winter storm swept through the region.
Snow falling across the region forced some school and government office closures and fostered some play time for adults and children cooped up in the
pandemic.
As much as 6 inches of snow fell across parts of southern Texas, the National Weather Service in Houston reported Sunday night.
The National Weather Service tweeted on Sunday that "a corridor of locally heavy snow, with up to 1 inch per hour snow rates, will be noted from east Texas into northern Louisiana."
"Up to 6' of snow fell today in our area," tweeted the National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio on Sunday night.
"The last time that happened was Christmas day 2004, when our Coastal Plains counties had a very white Christmas."
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