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The dark patches in the latter image depict areas left without electricity. In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, [6] 13–17, [7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in ...
Since 1895, it has snowed 39 times in Houston at an average of about once every 3 years, though some decades have several instances of recorded snowfall while others have only one each (e.g., the 1930s and 1950s) and one decade where there wasn't any snowfall (1990s). The last recorded snowfall in Houston was on February 15, 2021.
The February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm was a crippling, large and major winter and ice storm that had widespread impacts across the United States, Northern Mexico, and parts of Canada from February 13 to 17, 2021. The storm, unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Uri by the Weather Channel, [14] [15] started out in the Pacific ...
August 18, 1983 - Hurricane Alicia hits Houston and Galveston. September, 1983 - Nine inches of rain flood the southern Downtown Houston. October, 1984 - A thunderstorm in north Harris County floods over 200 structures. August 1–October 18, 1989 - Hurricane Chantal and Hurricane Jerry make landfall within a short time-span.
In many places the snow stuck to the ground and accumulated to an appreciable depth. In Brownsville, Texas, snow fell to a depth of 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), the first measurable snowfall at the city in over 100 years, since the Great Blizzard of 1899. Trinity Church in Houston Christmas Eve 2004
Dallas set a daily snowfall record on January 31, at 1.3 inches (3.3 cm). In Texas, at least 350,000 people were left without power as a result of the storm due to tree limbs and power lines being brought down to ice. Of those 350,000 people, 160,000 were in Austin.
Additionally, measurable snow fell in Houston in December for the first time since 2009, and daily snowfall records were broken on December 7 and 8. The Beaumont - Port Arthur area received its first December snowfall ever, where 3 inches (7.6 cm) of snow fell, and was also tied for the second-highest snowfall total ever. [28]
List of major snow and ice events in the United States. The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the ...