![]() ![]() Several locations across the Tidewater reported over a foot of snow, with the highest amount of 14 inches (36 cm) reported at Quinby and Tabb. (Click on the image and zoom in for place labels) Virginia A satellite image of South Texas and northeastern Mexico on Christmas morning, showing the extent of the snowfall. Several inches of snow fell across portions of the state, with the highest amount noted of 9.5 inches (24 cm) at Ahoskie. New Orleans, Louisiana: 0.7 inches or more (1.8 cm)Īs the cyclone tracked through Florida offshore the Southeast, up to an inch of freezing rain and sleet fell at Augusta and Aiken. ![]() Lake Charles, Louisiana: 1.2 inches (3.1 cm).Corpus Christi, Texas: 5.2 inches (13.2 cm).Brownsville, Texas: 1.5 inches (3.8 cm).This is the first significant snow fall in Houston since February 12, 1960, when a snowstorm hit central and south Texas with eight to 10 inches of snow.Īn unusual sight: palm trees covered in snow in Portland, Texas In addition to the unusual occurrence of snow inland, moderate to heavy snow was also reported over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans, Louisiana had its first white Christmas in 50 years. This was also the case in Victoria, Texas, where a significant 13.0 inches (33 cm) fell. ![]() Near the coast, in Corpus Christi, Texas, 5.2 inches (13 cm) of snow fell, more snow than in all previous recorded years combined. Across all of southern Texas and in southwestern Louisiana, snow fell in places where it had not for anywhere from 15 to 120 years. The fact that the snow accumulated overnight on Christmas Eve led to a White Christmas the next morning, something completely foreign to the region. Trinity Church in Houston Christmas Eve 2004 In Brownsville, Texas, snow fell to a depth of 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), the first measurable snowfall at the city in over 100 years, since the Great Blizzard of 1899. In many places the snow stuck to the ground and accumulated to an appreciable depth. Any snowfall in these areas is extremely unusual, perhaps occurring once every twenty years, and these events are usually airborne flurries which melt on contact with the ground. Much of the snow fell in southern Texas, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, but some snow, albeit less deep, fell across southern Louisiana. The most noticeable, and unusual, event associated with the storm was the snowfall it produced. Continuing to deepen, the developing storm moved about 200 miles (300 km) offshore the Mid-Atlantic states, New England, and Atlantic Canada on December 27 before moving out to sea.Įffects Christmas Day in Deep South Texas Texas and Louisiana The extratropical cyclone moved east, then northeast, tracking across the northern peninsula of Florida early on December 26 before moving about 100 miles (200 km) offshore the Southeast, paralleling the coast. There had been indications for up to a week before the event that a frontal wave in the Gulf of Mexico was expected to track far enough to the south (along roughly the 26th parallel) to lead to snow along the Gulf of Mexico coastline of the United States.Ī surface cyclone formed in the western Gulf of Mexico on December 24 due to a shortwave aloft, and moved eastward through the western Gulf of Mexico, bringing banded snowfall to the middle Texas coast. It was the most significant snow for the Texas Gulf Coast, and deep South Texas, since February 1895. The event involved a thin band of snowfall with unusually cold temperatures for the middle Texas coast, and caused dozens of varied weather records to be shattered. ![]() This was a different storm from the historic event that struck the Midwest and southern Canada around December 23 from another cyclone which preceded this storm. The 2004 Christmas Eve United States winter storm was a rare weather event that took place in Louisiana and Texas in the United States on December 24, 2004, before the storm moved northeast to affect the coastal sections of the Mid-Atlantic states and New England in the succeeding few days. Part of the 2004–05 North American winter ![]()
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