Past Big Freezes In Texas

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Other Big Freezes In Texas:
1852
1873
1875
1880-81
1886-Happened in January.
1888
1895-Gave us biggest snowfall in Houston in February.
1899-Biggest freeze in Texas and nation!
1917-18
1930
1933
1951-Most prolonged freeze in Upper Texas Coast and happened in La Nina!
1962
1983
1989-Two big ones in February and December! The February 1989 freeze happened in La Nina too!

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... 2&t=107308
http://www.raingardens.com/psst/articles/artic02.htm

Freezes happen anytime of the year. Some of the biggest freezes happened in La Nina like in 1951 and February 1989.

I think if there is a freeze before the season, it does not bode well in terms of the tropics, especially a prolonged one like 1886 or 1989. 1886 as I mentioned was a bad year for Texas and Florida because they got hit by hurricanes. Texas got hit by 4 hurricanes, while Florida got hit by 3 hurricanes and all within a 100 mile radius in the eastern panhandle of Florida. Three hurricanes made back to back landfall on Florida within a month period! Three of the four hurricanes hit the Upper Texas Coast that season. A state getting hit by 4 hurricanes would never happen until 2004.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html

I remember the February 1989 freeze, which was prolonged like the 1886 freeze. Following that season, we had flooding rains in May, than TS Allison and Hurricane Chantal and Jerry made landfall. All on the Upper Texas Coast.
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