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Snowfall in Houston is about as rare as a superbowl appearance. In all the years that I have lived in Texas since 1978, I have only seen it snow on one other occasion.
I first noticed a few random snow flurries during the afternoon on December 24, 2004 while I was driving to the grocery store. The outside air temperature was camped near 40 Deg. F all afternoon. The temperature later dropped to about 30 Deg. F shortly after sunset. Real snowflakes of the fluffy variety began to fall about 8:00pm, and continued to fall for several hours. The total accumulation reached about 1.0 inch in our neighborhood. Katie Beth and Jeremy had a good time playing in it. They scraped snow off my truck and collected enough to make snowballs to throw at each other. They also built a snowman which stood about one foot tall.