Winter 2007/2008 began at 1208 AM CST Saturday, December 22nd, 2007, and will end at 1248 AM CDT Thursday, March 20, 2008, when the Spring of 2008 officially begins. Winter over South Central Texas continues the variations from warm to cold that begins in the fall and continues through early spring. Historically the greatest extremes from warm to cold have been observed in February, although for any one year extremes can show up from anytime between September and April. For information on wind chill, See Wind Chill Chart.   For information on Holiday Weather Extremes Over South Central Texas   See Summary of Extremes in Weather over South Central Texas During the Holiday Season. 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 2.21 0.02 10.53 February 66.5 44.4 101 8 2.02 0.02 7.34 March 73.5 51.7 98 19 2.36 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 A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE NOTABLE WINTER WEATHER EVENTS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ARE LISTED BELOW. 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 RECORD LOWS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY OF -1 AT AUSTIN AND 4 AT SAN ANTONIO ON FEBRUARY 12...1899. DURING THIS HISTORIC COLD SPELL, EXTREMELY COLD TEMPERATURES AFFECTED THE ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS. ON FEBRUARY 13, 1899 THE WHOLE PART OF GALVESTON BAY, EXCEPT THE MAIN CHANNEL, WAS COVERED BY THIN ICE. LOWS IN OTHER LOCATIONS AROUND TEXAS ON FEBRUARY 12, 1899 INCLUDE; TULIA -23; AMARILLO -16; BROWNSVILLE 16; DALLAS-FT. WORTH -8; WACO -5; LAREDO 5; GALVESTON 8; AND CORPUS CHRISTI 11. IN THE FEBRUARY OF 1899 ARCTIC OUTBREAK, THE COLDEST LOW IN BROWNSVILLE WAS 12 ON FEBRUARY 13, 1899, STILL AN ALL TIME RECORD LOW FOR BROWNSVILLE. THE LOW OF -23 AT TULIA, IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE, ON FEBRUARY 12, 1899 WAS A RECORD LOW FOR THE STATE OF TEXAS, THEN WAS TIED WHEN SEMINOLE OBSERVED -23 ON FEBRUARY 8, 1933. UNOFFICIAL REPORTS OF -30 CAME FROM WOLF CREEK AND ALSO SOUTHWEST OF PERRYTON, BOTH IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE WETTEST DECEMBER AT AUSTIN WAS IN DECEMBER 1913...WHEN A DECEMBER FLOOD EVENT CAME. AUSTIN HAD 16.14 INCHES IN DECEMBER 1913. FROM DECEMBER 1 TO 4, 1913, WIDESPREAD FLOODS CAME TO CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST TEXAS, PLUS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SAN MARCOS RECEIVED 15.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE DAY. AUSTIN RECEIVED 10.66 INCHES OF RAIN ON THE 3RD AND 4TH. SOME PARTS OF SAN ANTONIO GOT 7 INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE DAY; HOWEVER, THE OFFICIAL AMOUNT ON DECEMBER 4TH, 1913 WAS 2.02 INHCES.  THE COLDEST NEW YEARS DAY AT AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO CAME ON JANUARY 1ST...1928. 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 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. THESE ARE RECORD ALL-TIME LOWS AT AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO. SNOW ALSO CAME WITH THIS ARCTIC BLAST. AUSTIN RECEIVED 6.5 INCHES OF SNOW...SAN ANTONIO 4.7 INCHES OF SNOW AND DEL RIO HAD 1.2 INCHES OF SNOW. THE COLD LOWS IN THIS EVENT OCCURRED AFTER SKIES CLEARED AND SNOW REMAINED ON THE GROUND ON JANUARY 31ST, 1949. LATE JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY 1951 BROUGHT ANOTHER STRONG ARCTIC OUTBREAK TO THE AREA. DURING THIS EVENT SAN ANTONIO STAYED BELOW FREEZING FOR 108 HOURS AND 28 MINUTES... FROM JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 2ND...1951. THIS IS A RECORD TIME FOR BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES IN SAN ANTONIO. AUSTIN WAS BELOW FREEZING FOR 112 HOURS IN THE LATE JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY OF 1951 ARCTIC OUTBREAK. THE RECORD FOR CONSECUTIVE HOURS BELOW FREEZING AT AUSTIN WAS 140 HOURS FROM DECEMBER 21 TO 27...1983. THE LOWS ON FEBRUARY 2ND...1951 WERE AS FOLLOWS...AUSTIN 7... SAN ANTONIO 6...AND DEL RIO 11. LOWS OF THIS MAGNITUDE WERE NOT SEEN AGAIN UNTIL DECEMBER 1989....WHEN THE LOW WAS 4 AT AUSTIN...6 AT SAN ANTONIO...AND 10 AT DEL RIO. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF EXTREMES IN WINTER WEATHER...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...A ND 87 AT DEL RIO. THESE ARE RECORD HIGHS FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER AT AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO FROM THE BEGINNING OF RECORD THROUGH 2006. DEL RIO REACHED A HIGH OF 89 ON DECEMBER 24...1955. IN JANUARY OF 1962 A STRONG ARCTIC OUTBREAK MOVED ACROSS TEXAS. THIS BROUGHT LOWS ON JANUARY 10TH OF 13 AT AUSTIN AND 10 AT SAN ANTONIO. THE COLDEST LOW FOR DEL RIO WAS 13 ON JANUARY 12TH. 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 FOR THE WINTER SEASON OF 1972/1973 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. AT THE END OF JANUARY 1985 ANOTHER STRONG ARCTIC OUTBREAK CAME TO THE AREA ON THE 31ST. THIS LEFT VERY COLD TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA ON FEBRUARY 1ST...1985 WITH THE HIGHS ONLY 23 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...25 AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM...24 AT SAN ANTONIO...AND 26 AT DEL RIO. THE HIGHS OF 24 AT SAN ANTONIO...25 AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM AND 26 AT DEL RIO ON FEBRUARY 1ST...1985 ARE RECORD LOW DAILY HIGHS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY. THE RECORD COLDEST DAYTIME HIGH AT THE AUSTIN CITY CLIMATE LOCATION WAS 22 ON FEBRUARY 4...1923. 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. DECEMBER 1991 WAS THE WETTEST DECEMBER FOR SAN ANTONIO WITH 13.96 INCHES OF RAIN...AND THE WETTEST DECEMBER AT AUSTIN BERGSGTROM WITH 12.88 INCHES OF RAIN. AT AUSTIN MABRY DECEMBER 1991 WAS THE 2ND WETTEST DECEMBER WITH 14.16 INCHES OF RAIN...AFTER DECEMBER OF 1913...WHEN 16.14 INCHES OF RAIN FELL...IN ANOTHER DECEMBER FLOOD EVENT. 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 A WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER 28TH TO EARLY MORNING OF NOVEMBER 29TH... 2001 AND ANOTHER WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT 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 2005...A WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT WITH FREEZING RAIN CAME IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF DECEMBER 7TH TO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF DECEMBER 8TH. AN ICE STORM CAME TO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS IN JANUARY OF 2007. PRECIPITATION WAS BEGINNING TO PICK UP IN THE FALL OF 2006...AND THEN INCREASED IN THE WINTER AND SPRING OF 2007. JANUARY 2007 PRECIPITATION WAS ONE OF THE WETTER JANUARYS OF RECORD. A WIDESPREAD WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT CAME JANUARY 15TH TO 17TH...2007. THE JANUARY 2007 EVENT WAS ONE OF THE MORE WIDESPREAD EVENTS SINCE FEBRUARY 13-14...2004; FEBRUARY 24-25...2003; DECEMBER 12-13...2000; DECEMBER 23-24...1998; JANUARY 1997; AND FEBRUARY 1 TO FEBRUARY 3...1996. WATER EQUIVALENT AMOUNTS ON THE JANUARY 2007 FREEZING RAIN EVENT WERE GREATER THAN THE PAST EVENTS SINCE 1996. THE LAST EVENT OVER SUCH AN AREA TO EQUAL THIS AS A WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT WOULD BE THE JANUARY 1985 HEAVY SNOW EVENT OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. JANUARY 2007 WAS THE COLDEST MONTH AT AUSTIN AND SAN ANTONIO SINCE DECEMBER 2000...AND AT DEL RIO SINCE DECEMBER 1989. IT WAS THE COLDEST JANUARY AT AUSTIN MABRY SINCE JANUARY 1991; COLDEST JANUARY AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM AND DEL RIO SINCE 1985; AND THE COLDEST JANUARY AT SAN ANTONIO SINCE 1988. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE JANUARY 2007 WEATHER... CLICK HERE. IN FEBRUARY OF 2007 MUCH DRIER WEATHER PREVAILED...HOWEVER THIS CHANGED IN MARCH. A MUCH WETTER WEATHER PATTERN EMERGED ON THE WEEKEND OF MARCH 11TH AND MARCH 12TH...BEFORE THE WINTER OF 2007 OFFICIALLY ENDED. THE RAINY AND WET PATTERN CONTINUED THROUGH THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 2007. The table below lists Sunrise and Sunset Times From December 21st to April 1st. Note that the times for March 15th and April 1st reflect the change to daylight saving time on Sunday, March 9th, 2008. 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 15 741 AM CDT 740 PM CDT 754 AM CDT 752 PM CDT 744 AM CDT 743 PM CDT April 1 721 AM CDT 750 PM CDT 734 AM CDT 802 PM CDT 724 AM CDT 753 PM CDT 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.