<p>Highest Recorded Temperature: 112 degrees on September 5, 2000
Lowest Recorded Temperature: -2 on January 31, 1949
Longest Dry Spell: 65 days in 1993
Most Rain in 24-hr period: 19.03 inches September 9-10, 1921
Snowfall Record: 9.7 inches on November 11, 1937[
White Christmas: Since 1926 there has been no snow on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve
Most recent significant snowfall: February 14, 2004; gone by noon
Tornado: Last one in Austin and Travis County was May 27, 1997. (Although tornados are not rare in Central Texas, they are rare in Austin.)</p>
<p>Haha it’s fun discussing the issues but the weather is one of the reasons I went for UT!</p>
<p>I love being able to walk around in shorts and flipflops into November and December, where the average low is 37. And I love the fact that the weather is no more than 90 throughout the school year. The weather really is only ungodly hot in June-August, and even then if you live in Texas your entire life you get used to 95+ weather every day.</p>
<p>Texas weather is like a teenaged girl.
It’s been pretty tame this season though.
No snow in March. No 95+ temperatures in december.
No rain for 1 straight month, see june-july 2007.
It’s been overwhelmingly mild.
I’m a little concerned.
There’s only been a couple of days I can remember it being over 90.
It’s been nice. Grey, but nice.</p>
<p>Austin had no rain last summer, while it literally rained every single day for 50 days in Dallas during the same time span, which is only 200 miles north.</p>
<p>Which is why it’s great being a meterologist here: no one cares if you mess up because the weather is so unpredictable!</p>
<p>Too true, the mantra in Houston is, “If you don’t like the weather, wait half an hour.”</p>
<p>I was in Austin a couple of weekends ago, and it was so unbelievably beautiful - mild temperature, clear blue sky, dry air - that I wished I could go back to college if only to experience that kind of “Austin Day”!</p>
<p>Of course, this past week, Austin had one of the most destructive rain and hail storms in history, which did much damage to west Austin, including the uprooting of many century old trees, some being on the state capitol grounds. The pictures that were in the Statesman are pretty amazing. We have friends who live in Tarrytown, and they couldn’t even get out of their neighborhood because of all the downed trees. SAD!!</p>
<p>I was up in Austin for Mother’s Day to spend the day with my family and I swear, it felt like I had died and gone to heaven, the weather was THAT beautiful. I mean, I was kind of thrown for a loop at the fact that it was May and it was 76 degrees out. AND it was breezy at the same time, which only made it feel better. Instead of Austin, I felt like I was in California. The air wasn’t humid and it was just an extremely pleasant day.</p>
<p>Haha I’ve lived in Houston all my life and the weather does change every few hours. It’s SO unpredictable! But even though I’ve grown up in Texas, I still abhor the heat. But I’m used to it. I LOVE it when it’s cold though and it’s colder in Austin during the winter than it is in Houston. But to make a long story short, Austin does have some rather amazing weather when it wants to.</p>