Are there places in Texas with four distinct seasons? (Austin: live in, nicest)

[Longhornsfan87]

I mean, I live in Central Texas, and it's hot in summer, the leaves DO change in fall, it DOES get cold in the winter, just not as long as up north, and it's warm in spring. Are there any other places in Texas like that?

[bluescreen73]

Originally Posted by Longhornsfan87

I mean, I live in Central Texas, and it's hot in summer, the leaves DO change in fall, it DOES get cold in the winter, just not as long as up north, and it's warm in spring. Are there any other places in Texas like that?

The panhandle and parts of West Texas. Lubbock and Amarillo occasionally get blasted by show in the winter.

[An0nym0us88]

East Texas has "summer feeling" from May to October which is about 6 months. Snow is rare but it can happen just about once every year in the northern part of East Texas. We definitely have leaves change colors in late November.

[doctorjef]

The short answer is: no; nowhere in Texas truly has four seasons in the manner that places for north do. I lived in Austin for a total of 22 years and certainly there are not four distinct seasons there. Rather, there are scenes from Spring and Autumn, with a long hot Summer and a very variable Winter. The same is essentially true of more northerly places in the State, including DFW and Lubbock, both of which I've lived in. Yes, those get colder Winter weather and are more inclined to have snow, especially Lubbock, but there are not four fully articulated seasons. Spring and Fall are just close to being non-events in Texas. I can contrast that to where I live now, with a very extended Autumn (really the nicest season IMO), hot summer, cold winter, and a rather variable spring that some years is magnificent and other years segues into summer all too quickly. Part of the problem with Spring in Texas is that, besides the weather itself, most of the State just doesn't have the right sort of shrubbery and vegetation, though East Texas is much better on that score than the rest of the State in general.

[TexasHorseLady]

I was born and grew up in East Texas - Henderson, Palestine, Tyler, that area - and I clearly remember four distinct seasons. Not so much snow in the winter, when it did it was very exciting, but winter was distinct from fall and spring. Lots of colorful leaves in the autumn (yellow, red, golden, bronze in among the evergreen pines). Flowers like crazy (starting with the tiny purple flowers on weeds that I picked bouquets of for my Mama every spring).

[Nairobi]

Texarkana, and I'm assuming Wichita Falls, Lubbock, and Amarillo. They're the closest to four seasons you will get in this state, or virtually anywhere in the non-Appalachian Lower South states.

[losttechnician]

30 years in the Panhandle here, Lubbock to Amarillo and in between.....

Ain't no such thing around here as distinct seasons. Been many years in December wearing shorts and short sleeves, to wearing heavy coats and scraping ice, back to shorts, all in the same week.

Summer is hot for long months, then we have something "less than summer" with occasional cold bouts thrown in for the rest of the year.

All topped with blowing dust. The blowing dust obviously comes from the blowing wind, which strips the leaves from the trees before they turn pretty colors. Most years, spring means less chance of scraping ice but little relief from the wind. if we are lucky, it rains enough to turn things green for a while before the heat of summer browns everything back up again.

I still love the area though, even though the rest of the masses might not.

[Nairobi]

Oh. Well, scratch the Panhandle, I guess.

[lonestar2007]

I say Texas has 4 seasons, just very weak ones except for SUMMER!

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

The way I see it, in DFW (its the only place I can really speak for in Texas):

-Winter starts the second week of December and ends the second week of February
-Spring starts in the end of February to the beginning of March and goes to the second week of May
-Summer starts the second week of May and goes through the middle of October
-Fall starts at the end of October and ends the second week of December.