What Passes for Winter Weather

While parts of Texas - notably west Texas and the panhandle - can indeed get some nasty winter weather, it's pretty rare here in the Austin area. We've had one event that could be generously called "snowfall" in the 6 1/2 years I've been here. Today, a little snow fell in the Hill Country west and southwest of here (and a lot fell in far west Texas around El Paso), we just got a little sleet. But even that's unusual.

We did have a week long ice storm back in January 2007; I'm not hoping for a repeat of that any time soon. I'll take snow over ice any day.

At the same time, I really miss the weather in San Diego.