
Did you enjoy your snow day, Houston? While Winter Storm Enzo did stir up commotion in the form of suspended flights, school and restaurant closures, and made Houston roads even more un-drivable, given that the city’s power remained largely in-tact, the snowfall gave many the chance to delight in a rare phenomenon that happens on average once every two to three years.
When it does snow in Houston, it usually amounts to a light sprinkle rarely cracking an inch. The last time Houston saw snow, for example, was during the winter freeze in February 2021 when an inch of snow fell on Houston. Now that the snowfall totals are coming, we can estimate on how yesterday’s snowfall in Houston lands on the record books.
Yesterday’s Houston snowfall totals are tallied as such:
- 5.5 inches in Baytown
- 4.2 inches in El Largo
- 4.1 inches in Nassau Bay
- 4 inches in Mont Belvieu
- 4 inches in Richmond
- 3.3 inches in West University Place
- 3.2 inches in Hilshire Village
- 3.2 inches in Galena Park
- 3 inches in Santa Fe
- 2.3 inches in The Woodlands
On average, the City of Houston received 3 inches of snowfall according to ABC13 placing it as the fifth largest snowfall in Houston history.
The largest snowfall in Houston history occurred over a century ago. On Valentine’s Day in 1895, the City of Houston was bombarded with a jaw-dropping 20 inches of snow in a meteorological phenomenon that Matt Lanza of Space City Weather called “meteorological anomaly, possibly one of the greatest weather anomalies in U.S. history, and one of the most interesting storms I’ve ever researched”.
The second largest snowfall in Houston occurred on February 12, 1960 where 4.4 inches of snow fell on Houston. The following amounts are recorded as such:
3. January 31, 1949: 3.1 inches
4. January 30, 1949: 3.1 inches
5. January 21, 2025: 3 inches
6. January 22, 1940: 2.8 inches
We hope you enjoyed your snow day yesterday, Houston – and we know you did – because based on these dates, the city is unlikely to experience anything like this snowfall for years to come.
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