IowaBear said:
Rough weather ahead!! We're looking at negative temps from Saturday into next week.
11 degrees!! Gotta be close to a record in TX ?
Not close. In the DFW area we were -2 in the 2021 storm and even that is not a record low.
BTW, I lived in Des Moines during the winter of '75-'76. That winter was the coldest on record to that point in Des Moines, but, but, but......we only had 2 inches of snow all winter. It snowed right before Thanksgiving and was not completely gone until March. We had a three week stretch where it never got above zero or close to that. I remember at the end of it the temp rose to 20 and we went out to eat. I wore a short sleeve shirt (no coat) and felt hot. It all depends on what you are used to. Dallas had 18 inches of snow that year.
Having said the above. We have gotten overall warmer over the decades. It is much warmer than it was during my years growing up in the 50s and 60s.