Texas Climate Top 10 Lists

Texas Climate Extremes

Hottest Texas cities Annual average temperature Cities > 10,000 population	Avg. Temp
1. Mc Allen	74.6
2. Weslaco	74.3
3. Rio Grande City	74.0
4. Mercedes	73.9
5. San Benito	73.9
6. Mission	73.9
7. Brownsville	73.9
8. Harlingen	73.6
9. Alice	72.2
10. Corpus Christi	71.9

Coldest Texas Cities Annual average temperature Cities > 10,000 population	Avg Temp
1. Stratford	55.0
2. Pampa	56.9
3. Amarillo	57.2
4. Plainview	58.4
5. Levelland	59.2
6. Borger	59.2
7. Lubbock	60.2
8. Socorro	60.8
9. Lamesa	61.4
10. Snyder	62.2

Wettest Texas Cities Annual average precipitation Cities > 10,000 population	Avg Precip
1. Orange	59.76
2. Port Arthur	58.49
3. Houston	56.66
4. Beaumont	55.13
5. Baytown	54.13
6. Angleton	52.84
7. Texarkana	50.54
8. Humble	49.67
9. Nacogdoches	49.53
10. Freeport	49.52

Driest Texas Cities Annual average precipitation Cities > 10,000 population	Avg Precip
1. Socorro	7.68
2. El Paso	8.67
3. Odessa	13.67
4. Midland	14.08
5. Laredo	16.22
6. Lamesa	17.61
7. Del Rio	17.69
8. Dumas	18.20
9. Hereford	18.22
10. Big Spring	18.34

Most # of days with at least .01 precipitation Cities > 10,000 population	Avg # days
1. Port Arthur	105
2. Orange	100
3. Houston	100
4. Beaumont	99
5. Tyler	98
6. Nacogdoches	98
7. Huntsville	94
8. Brenham	94
9. Lufkin	93
10. Victoria	92

Lowest # days with at least .01 precipitation Cities > 10,000 population	Avg # days
1. Socorro	36
2. Lamesa	46
3. El Paso	48
4. Snyder	49
5. Kingsville	51
6. Midland / Odessa	51
7. Eagle Pass	54
8. Hereford	54
9. Vernon	55
10. Dumas	56

Most # of days with high temperature equal or greater than 90 F Cities > 10,000 population	Avg # days
1. Rio Grande City	182
2. Laredo	174
3. Mission	169
4. Mc Allen	158
5. Eagle Pass	155
6. Weslaco	149
7. Harlingen	146
8. Alice	145
9. San Benito	144
10. Uvalde	144

Least # days with high temperature equal or greater than 90 F Cities > 10,000 population	Avg # days
1. Galveston	39
2. Pampa	64
3. Amarillo	66
4. Dumas	69
5. Hereford	69
6. Houston	71
7. Port Arthur	71
8. Borger	76
9. Alvin	78
10. Plainview	78

Most # of days with low temperature equal or less than 32 F Cities > 10,000 population	Avg # days
1. Dumas	124
2. Hereford	122
3. Pampa	108
4. Levelland	104
5. Socorro	100
6. Borger	97
7. Plainview	97
8. Lubbock	91
9. Lamesa	87
10. Snyder	80

Least # days with low temperature equal or less than than 32 F Cities > 10,000 population	Avg # days
1. Brownsville	2
2. Mc Allen	2
3. Galveston	3
4. Harlingen	3
5. Laredo	5
6. Mission	5
7. Corpus Christi	6
8. Freeport	7
9. Kingsville	8
10. Houston	9

Snowiest Texas Cities Annual average snowfall Cities > 10,000 population	Avg snowfall
1. Borger	20.9
2. Pampa	18.1
3. Startford	16.6
4. Amarillo	15.3
5. Dumas	14.7
6. Plainview	11.2
7. Hereford	11.1
8. Lubbock	8.5
9. Levelland	8.4
10. El Paso	5.9

Top Texas counties with reported tornadoes, 1950-2007	Location	City	#
1. Harris	Coast	Houston	212
2. Hale	Panhandle	Plainview	116
3. Galveston	Coast	Galveston	106
4. Jefferson	Coast	Beaumont	100
5. Nueces	Coast	Corpus Christi	93
6. Dallas	N. Texas	Dallas	82
7. Galveston	Coast	Galveston	79
8. Carson	Panhandle	Amarillo	79
9. Tarrant	N. Texas	Ft Worth	78
10. Lubbock	Panhandle	Lubbock	77

Hottest all-time Texas temperatures	Temp	Date
1. Seymour	120	8-12-1936
2. Copper Breaks State Park	119	6-28-1994
3. Guthrie	119	6-28-1994
4. Quanah	119	8-12-1936
5. Throckmorton	119	8-30-1947
6. Tilden	119	7-02-1910
7. Vernon	119	8-03-1943
8. Weatherford	119	6-26-1980
9. Mc Kinney	118	8-10-1936
10. Monahans	118	6-27-1994

Coldest all-time Texas Temperatures	Temp	Date
1. Spearman	-22	01-04-1959
2. Muleshoe	-21	02-08-1933
3. Dalhart	-21	01-04-1959
4. Romero	-20	02-08-1933
5. Stratford	-20	02-07-1933
6. Dalhart	-19	02-01-1951
7. Plemons	-19	01-08-1912
8. Lipscomb	-18	01-04-1974
9. Dumas	-18	01-04-1959
10. Spur	-17	02-08-1933

Data Source: National Climatic Data Center

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