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Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa Claus!

Has snow fallen in the Brazos Valley BEFORE our weather records began?

Knowing what we know, there's a decent likelihood that Christmas 1876 (1st TAMU holiday season) greeted folks with a Winter Wonderland.

My 2016 reporting 👉 www.kbtx.com/content/news...

That said, let's remember that the reality of a White Christmas is not a luxury we have here in the Brazos Valley.

In all 141 years of our written records, #bcstx has not recorded observed snow on December 25th.

☃️Odds of at least 1" of snow on Christmas Day: 0%
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More info and latest discussion from WPC:

- (More Central / East Texas Focused): httpsWPC Met Watch
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/metwatch_mpd_multi.php?md=1245&yr=2025

- (More Houston focused): www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met...

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This fits into the larger trend we've experienced with Brazos Valley autumn

The season has warmed, on average, by 4.3° since just 1970

While expected at times in this transition season, ABOVE average days now consume ~64% of our September - November in #bcstx

This is not our grandparents' fall