When is the last time Austin got a good amount of snow? (Dallas: live, beach)

[TY2012]

I love the winter and here in Dallas it rarely snows so I'm wondering if Austin is about the same or do yall get a fair amount of snow?

[Trainwreck20]

umm...define fair? Every few years, we seem to get an inch or two, but it rarely lasts into the afternoon.

[TY2012]

Oh ok then it's pretty much like here. I was hoping that it snowed more in Austin. Darn. Oh well. Guess that's Texas for ya.

[Trainwreck20]

The panhandle can get quite a bit from time to time, but don't look south of Dallas for more snow .

[scm53]

Having lived in both, Austin gets less snow just like it gets less rain. Frontal activity tends to stall somewhere around Waco and then slide off to the east - both warm and cold fronts.

Sad part, on the rain side, is that were are too far inland to see the afternoon convective showers you see closer to the coast. That's why Dallas get 35" of precip a year, we get 31" and Victoria gets 40".

[JackGriffin]

February 2010, to answer your question.

That same storm brought record snowfall to DFW (airport) as well.

[Komeht]

Exceedingly rare to get more than a dusting.

But ice storms are a fairly regular - every couple of years or so and can be quite entertaining.

[KFC_Or_Bust]

Regular isn't every couple years or so... Regular is a couple times a month every single winter.

Getting a freak day here where it "snows" a couple times a decade isn't regular, it's a lolfest.

[MedicalPartisan]

I think it's so cool it snows in Austin given its extreme heat. It's so humid and moist here that rare flurry never sticks. I miss my Virginia Beach days.

[CarnivalGal]

I've lived here for 20 years, and the most snow I have ever seen is about an inch. Didn't even really cover the grass, and it melted within a couple hours.