Houston: From record flooding to record cold in just 2 months
, and 1952 since it was this cold at Hobby Airport.
It was 36 degrees on Sunday morning at IAH,
which shattered the previous record low temperature of 39 degrees. At HOU, it was 39 degrees which broke the previous record low of 42 degrees.
The good news is that the wind is not a factor. So, what you see in temperature is what you actually feel.
Expect a warmup to about 70 degrees by Sunday afternoon. That is about 9 degrees warmer than Saturday, but still about 8 degrees colder than the norm.
Plenty of sunshine is forecast for Sunday and Monday as the temperature warms by 10 degrees for Monday morning and another 10 degrees by Tuesday.
Comment: While it could be argued that every winter season sees a record of either early snowfall or amount of snow occurring at some specific locality, what so far has marked this year out across the Northern Hemisphere, is the number of such records (see here to search for a selection). To further emphasize the trend of early snowfall, reports started appearing in August originating from Romania, Switzerland, Russia and Labrador and Alberta in Canada.
The start of September brought snow to Georgia 3 months early, while Mount Washington in New Hampshire saw the white stuff on the first day of the month. By the middle of September early snowfall had left a 12 foot snow base on mountains in Alaska, while Mammoth Lakes in California had snow one month earlier than usual. Over several different mountain ranges in Europe it was a similar picture with the high ground in Austria receiving a foot of snow.