Devine, Texas

... Wind Advisory remains in effect until 6 PM CST this evening...

A Wind Advisory remains in effect until 6 PM CST this evening.

Travelers for the Holiday weekend should use extra caution...
especially those driving high profile vehicles.

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

A Wind Advisory means that sustained winds of 26 to 39 mph are
expected. Winds this strong can make driving difficult...
especially for high profile vehicles.

12/23/2009 1036 PM

4 miles S of Hondo, Medina County.

Hail e1.75 inch, reported by law enforcement.

... Summary of Holiday weather extremes...

The Holiday season over parts of central and south central Texas has
brought many extremes in weather that varied from winter to Summer
like conditions.

The average high and low for late December to early January has been
around 60 and the low 60s to the upper 30s and near 40.

Information on the extremes in temperature for late December to
early January follows. The coldest weather during the holidays
since the late 1800's came in December of 1983... and December of
1989. The coldest Christmas day was during the Arctic outbreak of
December 1983... when all of south Texas was impacted by a hard
freeze.

Highs and lows for December 25... 1983 are listed below at Austin...
del Rio... and San Antonio

Location high and low for December 25... 1983

Austin Mueller Airport 25 and 10
Austin Bergstrom 26 and 11
del Rio 31 and 13
San Antonio 30 and 11

The coldest daily low temperatures for December came in 1989.
On December 23... 1989 the low fell to 4 at Austin Mueller
Airport... 6 at Austin Bergstrom... 6 at San Antonio... and 10
at del Rio. The low of 10 in del Rio was an all time low from
December 1905 to the present. The low of 4 at Austin Mueller
Airport... 6 at Austin Bergstrom and 6 at San Antonio was the
coldest for the month of December.

The warmest December 25th came in 1955. Highs and lows for
December 25... 1955 are listed below at Austin... del Rio...
and San Antonio

Location high and low for December 25... 1955

Austin Mueller Airport 90 and 47
Austin Bergstrom 91 and 50
del Rio 87 and 45
San Antonio 90 and 48

The coldest January 1st came in 1928 at Austin and San Antonio
and in 1928 and 1947 at del Rio.

Highs and lows for the coldest January 1st are listed below at
Austin... del Rio... and San Antonio

Location high and low for January 1... 1928

Austin Mueller Airport 25 and 17
del Rio 31 and 20
San Antonio 29 and 19

Location high and low for January 1... 1947

Austin Mueller Airport 31 and 25
del Rio 28 and 24
San Antonio 32 and 26

The warmest January 1st at Austin... del Rio... and San Antonio
came in 2006. Highs and lows for January 1st... 2006 are listed
below at Austin... del Rio... and San Antonio

Location high and low for January 1... 2006

Austin Mabry 85 and 63
Austin Bergstrom 84 and 50
del Rio 85 and 43
San Antonio 83 and 52

Although snow has not fallen so far on Christmas day in Austin...
del Rio or San Antonio through year 2008... it has come close and has
been observed during the holidays. During the 2004 Holiday season a
snow event came to mainly the southeast part of south central Texas.
From the late afternoon and early evening of December 24th... 2004 to
the early morning hours of December 25th... 2004... measurable snow
was observed over the southeast part of south central Texas. The
snow was over parts of Atascosa... Wilson... Karnes... DeWitt...
Gonzales... and Lavaca counties. The heaviest snow amounts were from
the southern part of Atascosa County to Karnes... DeWitt... and Lavaca
counties. Snow also fell further south over the coastal Bend... and
lower Rio Grande Valley... and east to parts of southeast Texas. A
brief period of snow flurries and sleet were observed over parts of
Bexar and Guadalupe counties in the late afternoon to the early
evening of December 24... 2004. During this event... snow was not
observed at Austin... del Rio or San Antonio International Airport.

The Table below lists the times closest to Christmas and New Years
Day... that snow was observed through year 2008 at Austin...
San Antonio... and del Rio.

For Austin 1906 through 2008

Dec 18... 1906 0.4 inches
Dec 18... 1909 light snow... no depths available
Jan 3... 1911 0.1 inches
Dec 28... 1925 1.0 inch
Dec 21... 1927 0.6 inches
Dec 21 and 22... 1929 5.5 inches
Dec 21 and 22... 1963 trace
Dec 22 and 23... 1980 trace
Jan 2... 1985 3.9 inches
Dec 26... 1997 trace
Dec 23 and 24... 1998 trace

for San Antonio 1885 through 2008
Dec 18... 1906 3 inches
Dec 28... 1925 1 inch
Dec 21... 1927 0.2 inches
Dec 21... 1929 2.9 inches
Jan 1... 1951 0.5 inches
Dec 21 and 22 1963 trace
Jan 2... 1985 2.4 inches
Dec 22... 1989 trace
Dec 23... 1990 trace

for del Rio 1906 through 2008
Dec 18... 1906 trace
Jan 2... 1911 trace
Dec 19 and 20... 1927 0.9 inches
Dec 21... 1929 2.2 inches
Dec 31... 1946 trace
Jan 1... 1947 1.5 inches
Dec 17 and 18... 1964 trace
Jan 2... 1985 1.2 inches
Dec 22... 1989 trace

with the December 28... 1925 snow event... New Braunfels had 0.5 inches
of snow and blanco had 2 inches. With the December 21 and 22... 1929
snow event... New Braunfels had 4.6 inches... blanco had 7 inches...
Burnet had 8 inches... and Llano had 9 inches.

With the December 24 and early morning of December 25... 2004 snow
event Kenedy had 6 to 8 inches; Runge 7 inches... Cuero 3 to 6
inches... Yorktown 6 inches... Karnes City 5 inches... between Kenedy
and Karnes City 3 to 4 inches... Speaks 2 inches... Falls City 1
inch... and Yoakum 1 inch of snow.

Rainfall in the past has varied from Bone dry to floods during the holidays.
One of the wettest periods during the holidays came in December 1991...
when floods affected the area just before Christmas... associated
with the 1991/1992 El Nino. San Antonio had the wettest December
in 1991 with 13.96 inches of rain... while at Austin it was the 2nd
wettest December with 14.16 inches of rain. Del Rio had the 3rd
wettest December in 1991 with 3.06 inches of rain. From December
18th to December 22nd... 1991 Austin had 11.28 inches of rain...
San Antonio 11.74 inches... and del Rio 1.82 inches of rain.

Severe weather events have also affected the area during the Holiday season...
while at other times calm weather prevailed. In 1997 severe weather events
began in the area around December 20th and continued through March of 1998...
when south central Texas was affected by the 1997 and first half of 1998
El Nino. In late December of 2002... severe weather events affected
the area on Monday... December 23rd... 2002 and again on Monday...
December 30th... 2002.