During the blizzard of 1899, the temperature tumbled to 10 degrees below zero in Waco and people ice-skated on the Brazos River.
Here's a list of Texas cities and the temperatures they reached in 1899:
- Amarillo: −16 °F (−26.7 °C) all-time record
- Austin: −1 °F (−18.3 °C) second-lowest ever
- Blanco: −6 °F (−21.1 °C) tied with January 31, 1949, for all-time record
- Brenham: 0 °F (−17.8 °C) all-time record for February
- Brownsville: 12 °F (−11.1 °C) all-time record
- College Station: 1 °F (−17.2 °C) all-time record for February
- Conroe: 6 °F (−14.4 °C) tied with February 2, 1951, for all-time record for February
- Corpus Christi: 11 °F (−11.7 °C) all-time record
- Crosbyton: −14 °F (−25.6 °C) all-time record
- Dallas & Fort Worth: −8 °F (−22.2 °C) all-time record
- Danevang: 3 °F (−16.1 °C) all-time record
- El Paso: 5 °F (−15.0 °C)
- Galveston: 8 °F (−13.3 °C) all-time record
- Hallettsville: 5 °F (−15.0 °C) tied with December 23, 1989, for all-time record
- Houston: 6 °F (−14.4 °C) second-lowest ever
- Laredo: not available
- Marshall: −9 °F (−22.8 °C) all-time record
- New Braunfels: 2 °F (−16.7 °C) tied with January 31, 1949, and December 23, 1989, for all-time record (as of December 19, 2017)
- San Antonio: 4 °F (−15.6 °C) second-lowest ever
- Temple: −4 °F (−20.0 °C) tied with December 23 and 24, 1989, for all-time record (as of November 8, 2003)
- Tulia: −23 °F (−30.6 °C) all-time record for Texas, which Seminole tied on February 8, 1933
- Tyler (Pounds Regional Airport): 0 °F (−17.8 °C) all-time record
- Waco -10 F, all-time record
Beauty is only skin deep but Texas is to the bone.
Posted : 8th January 2020 10:12 pm