The table below lists a climate summary
of 30 Year Normals, 30 Year Averages from 1971 to 2000, and a few extremes
of climate record for Austin, Del Rio, and San Antonio for December
through March. For Precipitation, the latest 30 Year Normal for 1971
to 2000 is shown under Average Rainfall, and the All Time Driest and
Wettest December, January, February and March of Climate Record is shown.
Austin/Mabry
|
Month |
High |
Low |
All time High |
All time Low |
Average Rainfall |
All Time
Driest |
All Time
Wettest |
|
December
|
62.3 |
41.9 |
90 |
4 |
2.44 |
0 |
16.14 |
|
January
|
60.3 |
40.0 |
90 |
-2 |
1.89 |
0 |
9.21 |
|
February |
65.1 |
44.0 |
99 |
-1 |
1.99 |
0 |
9.41 |
|
March |
72.5 |
50.9 |
98 |
18 |
2.14 |
0 |
7.23 |
Austin/Bergstrom
|
Month |
High |
Low |
All time High |
All time Low |
Average Rainfall |
All Time
Driest |
All Time
Wettest |
|
December
|
63.2 |
42.5 |
91 |
6 |
2.53 |
0.01 |
12.88 |
|
January
|
61.5 |
40.6 |
89 |
-5 |
2.20 |
0.02 |
10.53 |
|
February |
66.5 |
44.4 |
101 |
8 |
1.73 |
0.02 |
7.34 |
|
March |
73.5 |
51.7
|
98 |
19 |
1.98 |
0.05 |
6.52 |
Del Rio
|
Month |
High |
Low |
All time High |
All time Low |
Average Rainfall |
All Time
Driest |
All Time
Wettest |
|
December |
63.5 |
41.2 |
90 |
6 |
0.75 |
Trace |
3.93 |
|
January |
62.8 |
39.7 |
92 |
12 |
0.57 |
Trace |
4.12 |
|
February |
68.0 |
44.1 |
99 |
11 |
0.96 |
0 |
7.82 |
|
March |
76.0 |
51.6 |
103 |
19 |
0.96 |
Trace |
3.93 |
San Antonio
|
Month |
High |
Low |
All time High |
All time Low |
Average Rainfall |
All Time Driest |
All Time
Wettest |
|
December
|
64.0 |
40.8 |
90 |
6 |
1.96 |
0 |
13.96 |
|
January |
62.1 |
38.6 |
89 |
0 |
1.66 |
Trace |
8.52 |
|
February |
67.1 |
42.4 |
100 |
4 |
1.75 |
Trace |
7.88 |
|
March |
74.3 |
49.9 |
100 |
19 |
1.89 |
Trace |
6.12 |
|
WINTERS HISTORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SINCE THE 19TH
CENTURY HAS BEEN EXTREME COLD TO VERY WARM...PLUS VERY DRY
TO FLOODS.
IN JANUARY OF 1856 VERY COLD TEMPERATURES CAME TO THE AREA...
WHEN AUSTIN HAD IT COLDEST JANUARY OF RECORD...WITH THE
AVERAGE JANUARY TEMPERATURE OF 36.6. IN FEBRUARY OF 1899 A
STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT CAME TO TEXAS...CAUSING LOWS OF -1
AT AUSTIN AND 4 AT SAN ANTONIO ON FEBRUARY 12...1899.
JANUARY 1ST...1928 IS THE COLDEST NEW YEARS DAY AT AUSTIN AND
SAN ANTONIO. THE HIGH AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT JANUARY 1...1928
WAS 25 AND LOW WAS 17...AND AT SAN ANTONIO THE HIGHS WAS
28 AND LOW 19. DEL RIO ALSO HAD ONE OF ITS COLDEST NEW YEARS DAY
ON JANUARY 1...1928...WHEN THE HIGH WAS 31 AND LOW 20. ANOTHER
COLD NEW YEARS DAY AT DEL RIO CAME 19 YEARS LATER ON JANUARY
1ST...1947...WHEN THE HIGH WAS 28 AND LOW WAS 24.
IN JANUARY 1930 COLD WEATHER CAME TO THE AREA...BRINGING
THE COLDEST JANUARY OF RECORD AT DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO.
THE AVERAGE JANUARY TEMPERATURES AT DEL RIO WAS 43.7 AND
AND AT SAN ANTONIO 43.3. THE COLDEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURES
DURING THE WINTER SEASON CAME IN LATE JANUARY 1949...WHEN
A STRONG ARCTIC FRONT CAME TO THE AREA...LEAVING LOWS OF -5 AT
AUSTIN BERGSTROM...-2 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...0 AT
SAN ANTONIO...AND 17 AT DEL RIO JANUARY 31...1949. SNOW ALSO
CAME WITH THIS ARCTIC BLAST. ADDITIONAL STRONG ARCTIC FRONTS
RETURNED 2 YEARS LATER IN LATE JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY OF
1951...AND IN JANUARY 1962.
IN DECEMBER 1955 THE WARMEST CHRISTMAS DAY CAME WHEN THE
HIGH WAS 90 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...91 AT AUSTIN
BERGSTROM...90 AT SAN ANTONIO...AND 87 AT DEL RIO.
DEL RIO REACHED A HIGH OF 89 ON DECEMBER 24...1955.
IN JANUARY 1968...HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS CAME TO SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. THIS WAS THE WETTEST JANUARY OF RECORD AT SAN ANTONIO
WITH 8.52 INCHES OF RAIN.
THE 1970S BROUGHT A FEW COLD WINTERS. THE 1970S BEGAN WITH A
COLD JANUARY IN 1970. A YEAR LATER THIS CHANGED WHEN MILD
CONDITIONS PREVAILED IN JANUARY 1971...ESPECIALLY AT THE END
OF THE MONTH. A RECORD HIGH FOR JANUARY OF 90 WAS OBSERVED AT
AUSTIN AND 89 AT SAN ANTONIO ON JANUARY 30...1971. JANUARY
1972 BROUGHT MORE COOLER DAYS...FOLLOWED BY A COLD JANUARY IN
1973. JANUARY 8 TO 12...1973 WAS A COLD PERIOD. AUSTIN
HAD 116 HOURS OF BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES FROM JANUARY 8
TO 12...1973. SAN ANTONIO PICKED UP 0.8 INCHES OF SNOW JANUARY
11TH. A 2ND SNOW EVENT RETURNED FEBRUARY 7 AND 8...1973 WHEN
AUSTIN...DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO HAD SNOW. THE MID TO LATE PART OF
THE 1970S HAD SOME COLD WINTERS...DURING THE WINTERS OF
1976/1977...1977/1978 AND 1978/1979.
AFTER A MILDER WINTER FROM DECEMBER 1979 TO FEBRUARY OF 1980...
THE 1980S BROUGHT SEVERAL EXTREME ARCTIC WEATHER EVENTS IN DECEMBER
1983...JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY 1985...AND AGAIN IN DECEMBER 1989.
THE COLDEST DECEMBER LOWS OF RECORD CAME WITH THESE ARCTIC BLASTS.
ANOTHER OF SHORTER DURATION CAME IN DECEMBER OF 1990...WHEN VERY
WARM CONDITIONS ON DECEMBER 21...1990 WHERE REPLACED BY MUCH COLDER
WEATHER DECEMBER 22 TO 26...1990. DECEMBER 1983 WAS THE COLDEST
MONTH OF RECORD AT SAN ANTONIO...WITH THE AVERAGE DECEMBER
TEMPERATURE OF 43.0 DEGREES. IN THE COLD OF DECEMBER 1989...THE
COLDEST LOW OF RECORD FOR DEL RIO CAME DECEMBER 23...WITH A LOW OF
10. DECEMBER RECORD LOWS OF 4 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...6 AT
AUSTIN BERGSTROM...AND 6 AT SAN ANTONIO WAS OBSERVED DECEMBER
23...1989.
DURING THE 1982/1983 EL NINO SEVERAL SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS CAME
TO THE AREA IN THE WINTER FROM DECEMBER 1982 TO MID MARCH...1983.
A FEW WINDY DAYS CAME ALSO. A YEAR LATER IN FEBRUARY 1984...A POWERFUL
LOW...WITH A COLD FRONT...MOVED NORTH OF THE AREA BRINGING VERY
WINDY CONDITIONS ON FEBRUARY 26 AND 27...1984.
FROM JANUARY 11 TO 13...1985 A HEAVY SNOW EVENT CAME TO SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS...WHERE SAN ANTONIO PICKED UP 13.5 INCHES OF
SNOW...DEL RIO 8.6 INCHES AND AUSTIN 3.9 INCHES. A SNOW EVENT
RETURNED TO THE DEL RIO AREA IN EARLY JANUARY 1986...WHEN FROM
JANUARY 7 TO 8...1986 DEL RIO PICKED UP 8.2 INCHES OF SNOW.
AFTER DRY WINTERS IN 1987/1988 AND 1988/1989...FLOODS RETURNED
IN JANUARY 1991 TO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AUSTIN HAD ITS WETTEST
JANUARY OF RECORD...WITH 10.53 INCHES AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM AND 9.21
INCHES AT AUSTIN MUELLER. A FLOOD RETURNED IN LATE DECEMBER 1991 JUST
BEFORE CHRISTMAS. THE RAINY PATTERN LASTED FROM JANUARY TO JUNE OF
1992.
FEBRUARY 1996 WAS AN EXTREME MONTH FROM HARD FREEZE TO SUMMER LIKE
WARMTH AND THEN BACK TO VERY COLD ON THE 29TH. A BRIEF WINTER
PRECIPITATION EVENT CAME IN EARLY FEBRUARY 1996...WHERE AUSTIN
RECEIVED SNOW ON FEBRUARY 3...1996. CONDITIONS WARMED UP
CONSIDERABLY BY THE MID TO LATE PART OF THE MONTH...WITH HIGHS
REACHING 100 FEBRUARY 21 AT SAN ANTONIO...101 AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM...
99 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT AND 99 AT DEL RIO. FEBRUARY 1996
CLOSED OUT THE MONTH ON THE 29TH WITH MUCH COLDER CONDITIONS
AND A MIX OF WINTER LIKE PRECIPITATION OVER THE HILL COUNTRY.
WELCOME RAINS CAME TO THE REST OF THE AREA...IN WHAT WAS A
DRY YEAR IN 1996. HISTORICALLY FEBRUARY IS THE MONTH FOR THE
MOST EXTREMES IN TEMPERATURE FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AS THE
AREA BEGINS TO WARM UP...FOLLOWED BY PERIODS OF VERY COLD WEATHER
AFTER STRONG ARCTIC FRONTS.
HEAVY RAINS AND SEVERE WEATHER AFFECTED THE AREA FROM LATE DECEMBER
1997 THROUGH FEBRUARY OF 1998. THIS WAS A STRONG EL NINO YEAR.
THE OPPOSITE CAME A YEAR LATER FROM DECEMBER 1998 THROUGH FEBRUARY
OF 1999 WHEN VERY DRY CONDITIONS CAME TO THE AREA...AFTER THE
FLOODS OF OCTOBER 1998.
IN THE 21ST CENTURY...COLD CONDITIONS CAME TO THE AREA IN DECEMBER
OF 2000 AND JANUARY 2001. AN ICE STORM CAME TO THE AREA ON
DECEMBER 12 AND 13...2000...FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ICE STROM FROM
FEBRUARY 22 TO 24...2003. ANOTHER WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT
CAME THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 13TH AND EARLY MORNING OF
FEBRUARY 14...2004...WITH SNOW AND SLEET. IN DECEMBER 2005...
A FREEZING RAIN EVENT CAME IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF
DECEMBER 7TH TO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF DECEMBER 8TH. OVERALL
THE WINTER OF 2005/2006 WAS VERY DRY AND WARM.
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The table below lists Sunrise and Sunset Times From December 21st to
April 1st. Note that in mid January the latest sunrises occur, even
though the shortest day of the year is on December 21st. By mid January
sunsets are much later than mid to late December. These affects are
attributed to a phenomena known as the Equation of
Time
Dates:Sunrise/Sunset |
Austin |
Del
Rio |
San
Antonio |
December 21 |
724 AM CDT
535 PM CDT |
734 AM CST
550 PM CST |
725 AM CST
540 PM CST |
January 1 |
728 AM CST
542 PM CST |
738 AM CST
557 PM CST |
729 AM CST
547 PM CST |
January 15 |
729 AM CST
553 PM CST |
739 AM CST
608 PM CST |
730 AM CST
558 PM CST |
February 1 |
722 AM CST
608 PM CST |
733 AM CST
622 PM CST |
724 AM CST
612 PM CST |
February 15 |
712 AM CST
620 PM CST |
723 AM CST
633 PM CST |
714 AM CST
624 PM CST |
March 1 |
658 AM CST
630 PM CST |
710 AM CST
643 PM CST |
700 AM CST
634 PM CST |
March 15 |
641 AM CST
640 PM CST |
654 AM CST
652 PM CST |
644 AM CST
643 PM CST |
April 1 |
621 AM CST
650 PM CST |
634 AM CST
702 PM CST |
624 AM CST
653 PM CST |
To view the sunrise and sunset for a
specific data and location,
See Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day from the U.S. Naval Observatory.
weather.gov
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