The Crazy Texas Snowfall Last Night Quite Mind-Boggling: Facts!

HOUSTON, TX — Weather finally wreaked havoc in a good way on the Texas coast Thursday night and Friday morning. After a rough summer, it's just what Texas needed. To top off the winter wonderland that actually didn't keep most kids home from school today, it has some wacky historical ties.

For starters, the last time Houston hosted a Super Bowl before this year was in 2004. Later that year Brazoria County received a whopping 13 inches on Christmas Day. College Station received nearly 6 inches of snow last night. How's this — Minneapolis has received only 3 inches this season.

Even Brownsville down on the Mexico border received snow for only the third time since 1895, or 122 years. Corpus Christi, which is located in the Coastal Bend that got hammered by Hurricane Harvey's powerful Category 4 winds 103 days ago, received 5-7 inches of snow this morning — its first snow in 13 years.

Back to Houston, it received its second-earliest snow in recorded history. The only earlier date was the last time it snowed there: Dec. 4, 2009. (Note: snowfall accumulations are recorded at George Bush International Airport, so some areas may have received more) And last night's snowfall ranks fifth all-time for a white December. Here are the others KHOU reported:

• Dec. 21, 1929: 2.5"
• Dec. 22, 1989: 1.7"
• Dec. 10, 2008: 1.4"
• Dec. 4, 2009: 1"
• Dec. 7, 2017: 0.7"

The Thursday-Friday snowstorm in Houston is just the 36th recorded snowfall since 1895, a year the Bayou City had a Valentine's Day blizzard that dumped about 20 inches of snow.

To top it off, the temperatures weren't too terribly frigid as most of the snow started falling well before the mercury dropped to 32 degrees or below. But the sight of snow on the ground and on rooftops, tree limbs and car hoods brought out the kid in all Texans and transplants alike.

One never knows when something like this will happen again. And for Texas, it was surely a wild, crazy and welcome sight.

Image: Cat Davis, left, gets a kiss from her daughter, Lilly, 4, while playing in the snow at Meyer Park Friday, Dec. 8, 2017, in Spring, Texas, north of Houston. It was the first time Lilly has seen snow. Rare snowfall in many parts of southern Texas has knocked out power to thousands, caused numerous accidents along slick roadways and closed schools. The weather band brought snow to San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Houston and elsewhere. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)