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GALVESTON, Texas, USA: Climate, Global Warming, and Daylight Charts and Data
A- Summers are brutally hot and humid, great for tropicals, I don't mind it that much either, though I do like it a bit cooler. Winters are so-so, but at least it usually doesn't drop below freezing, save the last 2 years, but before that were 13 years straight with no lows below 30F. Someone even managed to get a coconut palm to survive a few winters.
Sounds great. I'd give it a B because of the chance of getting cold, near-freezing temperatures and because I'd like a little less rainfall especially during winter.
I guess it depends on your definition of a summer but I don't see temperatures that get down to 50F at night in winter as "summer" weather, but more like spring at best. It's also worth nothing that the record low is 8F and there is probably a couple of nights of frost every year.
I guess it depends on your definition of a summer but I don't see temperatures that get down to 50F at night in winter as "summer" weather, but more like spring at best. It's also worth nothing that the record low is 8F and there is probably a couple of nights of frost every year.
Some years (a bit less then 50%?) have no frost at all! 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2000 didn't see any temperatures below 32F at all, and it's only dropped below 30F 3 (1996: 27F, 2010: 27F, 2011: 25F) times in the last 21 years. You're right about those 100 year freezes that can bring temperatures down into the teens and upper digits though...14F in 1989.
I don't think a lot of northern people would agree 50F lows is barely spring though, but 50F is freezing to me . Water temperatures are up to 72F at Galveston now, nighttime lows are just below 70F.
I guess it depends on your definition of a summer but I don't see temperatures that get down to 50F at night in winter as "summer" weather, but more like spring at best. It's also worth nothing that the record low is 8F and there is probably a couple of nights of frost every year.
If average daytime highs fail to get below 60 degrees all year round, then a perpetual summer it is.
If winters see average daytime highs in the 30s or less, it's more a real winter. In the 40s it's a mild winter. In the 50s it's not really a winter at all, more like an extension of fall that melds right in to spring. In the 60s it's still in my book summer like, albeit mild.
To add on to the last post, overnight lows don't really count to me as much as daytime highs do. If you think about it, you're sleeping during most of the coldest part of the "day" anyway unless you work a night job or something.
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. Water temperatures are up to 72F at Galveston now, nighttime lows are just below 70F.
