KV must be out in the backyard tonight making the most of the snow flurries that hit Houston tonight.

HOUSTON -- A bitter-cold Christmas Eve turned into a white Christmas, sort of, with light snow flurries falling in some parts of town, much to the delight of Houston-area children of all ages. Temperatures were in the 20s and 30s across the Houston area Friday morning, and they did not go much higher as the day progressed.

The 30 percent chance for snow came true for many areas south of Interstate 10. Local 2 viewers from around town, including Fort Bend County, Clear Lake, Mont Belvieu, and the Galleria area, reported seeing light snow flurries as early as 8 a.m.

At 9:30 a.m., snow flurries and ice pellets fell in southwest Houston along the Southwest Freeway at Gessner. By Friday afternoon, snow was still falling across town. The last time Houston actually had measurable snow fall was in 1989, when 1.7 inches of snow fell.

Snowing like crazy. It's beautiful. Really adding to the festivity of the evening. The church a few blocks down has some carolers out, and who the heck would ever think they would see carolers walking around in a snow storm on Christmas Eve in Houston. Hope it keeps up all night, Houston's never had a White Christmas, at least not in the last 100 years or so. Hope everyone else is having as merry a Christmas as we are!

Our son who lives in Houston has been ribbing me for the last couple of weeks about how nice it is down there while we suffer with the cold. I know he's really enjoying it deep down inside.

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Since we'll be down in the 20's tonight, the snow will be on the ground until at least in the afternoon. Both diesels are COVERED in snow. I will get up early in the morning with my digital camera and take some photos in the light. I haven't seen snow since I was a tot (back in 89'), it's even snowing down in the Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, etc...
-Joe

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This one is going to make the news. We've got a good 2" on the ground here in Clear Lake. All the sentimental folks are going to be getting teary-eyed over their White Christmas. Myself, I'm going to teach those Texan kids of mine what getting hit by a snowball feels like. I'm already planning my ambush. This storm will be one for the history books.

Must be all that "global warming."

I miss winter, and I've been enjoying every minute of this. Too bad there wasn't enough around where I live, to run the snowmobile. Hopefully, winter will give us another shot this season, and leave behind more than a tease.

Snow in TX! That must be neat.

Snow is cool at first, it gets old real fast. A dusting every now and then is nice.

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We got a TON down here in Corpus. It started snowing about 7 PM and didn't let up until about 5 this morning. No WAY it's all going to melt today. SWEET! Supposedly we got a good 6", woke up this morning to winter wonderland!! BTW, I'm at the office just to check on things... ye olde 560 SEL did JUST fine... for the first time in my life i'm thankful for the second gear start.

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Merry Christmas All!

I'm entertaining family from MI and IL and they all commented as to the fact that they left all of the wintry stuff to come here and experience more of the same!!! Quite unusual weather for this time of year!

But the kids are overjoyed that they got a "White Christmas" after all!

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We got some snow here at the house, but by 4am it stopped, woke up at noon to sunny sky and no snow.

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A white Christmas in southern Texas- who would have thought it? I know that a lot of people down there was glad to see it, especially at this time of year. I heard that 12 inches of snow fell in Victoria, TX and even as much as 3 inches fell in Brownsville and even across the border in Mexico. I really thought that the video clip of the Galveston, TX snowman was amazing. There were a lady building a huge snowman right on the beach there. There were also reports of snow in New Orleans, LA today, but it did not stick. Last hour there was reports of a sleet/rain mix in northwestern Florida, but mostly a rain event, as the air moderated. On the flip side, it was in the lower 80s in Miami, FL today, but very heavy rains in Orlando, but was only in the 50s and 60s. I think it makes it even more unusual that parts of eastern and even northeastern Maine (parts of southern Canada included) did not have any snow on the ground at the same time Texas was getting the heavy snow. We did not/do not have any snow on the ground here in northeast Tennessee either. Not that unusual, because we only average about 18 inches of snow per year and we do not typically have a white Christmas. Most of our snow falls in February. We have still not received a measureable snow this year.

The Texas snow will be history soon. I think 60s forecasted tomorrow and mid 80s by midweek? Supposed to warm to near 70 here by the weekend. Actually, a nice warm-up for the central and eastern USA- while the west cools down .

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I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw TV news about the snowfall in the U.S. South! It wouldn't have struck me so strange except that through much of the land of your northern neighbour, we have yet to have any snow at all this year! (Except for Toronto and Montreal who had plenty of snow and plenty of trouble.) With temperatures in the mid 40's and heavy rain here Christmas Eve, we had a green Christmas! Temperatures plummeted yesterday, and this morning is a cold 12 F, but sunny and snowless.

Dave

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Snow in TX....yep......Global warming all right.......lets see if San Diego gets snow now.

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