Texas Cities by Freezing Lows/Highs (Houston, Dallas: 2015, college, live)

[q32]

I posted a thread earlier this year of Texas Cities by 100° Days. Now that I'm getting tired of the heat, I figured I'd do something similar, except with freezing temperatures this time. This uses NOAA data that I was able to find for each city.


Texas Cities by Freezing Lows
Low of 32° or below
1. Amarillo........... 107
2. Lubbock............ 86
3. Wichita Falls...... 61
3. Midland/Odessa..... 61
5. San Angelo......... 51
6. Abilene............ 50
7. El Paso............ 43
8. Texarkana.......... 41
9. Waco............... 38
10. Ft. Worth......... 36
11. Tyler............. 34
12. Dallas............ 26
13. College Station... 18
14. San Antonio....... 15
15. Austin............ 14
16. Victoria.......... 11
17. Houston........... 10
18. Corpus Christi.... 4
18. Laredo............ 4
20. Galveston......... 2
21. Brownsville....... 1
22. McAllen........... 0


Texas Cities by Freezing Highs
High of 32° or below
1. Amarillo........... 9
2. Lubbock............ 5
3. Wichita Falls...... 4
4. Midland/Odessa..... 3
4. Abilene............ 3
6. San Angelo......... 2
6. Texarkana.......... 2
6. Waco............... 2
6. Ft. Worth.......... 2
10. Tyler............. 1
10. Dallas............ 1

Some of these cities are windier than others (Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, etc) which will amplify cold weather through wind chill. Similarly, humidity can have an effect on how cold things feel.
And of course, these are just annual averages - some recent years have swung considerably away from these numbers.
Thoughts, observations, etc? Do you see this as an accurate representation of the "coldest" Texas cities?

[VIRAL]

What year range did you use?

[lepoisson]

People at work keep telling me that DFW gets cold during the winter. I lived in Iowa for a few years. I'll probably be in a light sweater most of the winter down here.

[borgerboy]

Now maybe a list of Texas with below 0 lows and maybe even highs if we include towns north of Amarillo.

[q32]

Originally Posted by VIRAL

What year range did you use?

This is for years starting in 2000 up through the 2015-2016 winter season.

[VIRAL]

Houston at Bush is around 10, but the number drops to 4 using Hobby.

[Mark Senior]

Originally Posted by q32

This is for years starting in 2000 up through the 2015-2016 winter season.

The period 2000 - 2015 has been much warmer than decades prior to that. However 1990 - 2000 was much warmer as well.

So does someone have figures, from 1950 to 2015? Yeah, it probably wouldn't matter to most people.

I don't have the numbers, but I know, in Tyler, it has been much warmer since 1990. Last year hardly any freezing temps overnight. No snow, no "threat" no freezing rain.

[VIRAL]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

The period 2000 - 2015 has been much warmer than decades prior to that. However 1990 - 2000 was much warmer as well.

So does someone have figures, from 1950 to 2015? Yeah, it probably wouldn't matter to most people.

I don't have the numbers, but I know, in Tyler, it has been much warmer since 1990. Last year hardly any freezing temps overnight. No snow, no "threat" no freezing rain.

The 1980s was a very cold decade for the Eastern US. Since the 1990s, temps have never been as cold.

[TXNGL]

Originally Posted by lepoisson

People at work keep telling me that DFW gets cold during the winter. I lived in Iowa for a few years. I'll probably be in a light sweater most of the winter down here.

We'll never have anything compared to Iowa, but this last winter was extremely mild for us.

[Westerntraveler]

Our last winter in Midland was real nice except for the big snow storm around Christmas.