Here is why February can be one of South Texas' whackiest weather months
Icicles hang Thursday morning, Feb. 3, 2022 off a San Antonio city limit sign on Blanco Road on the city's north side.If you’ve lived in San Antonio long enough, you know that February has a way of cramming all four seasons into one month. Or, in the case of this week, just a few days.
The final week of February began with spring-like weather. Temperatures, however, plummeted from the mid-80s to near freezing in less than a day after a strongAt 2 p.m. Wednesday, the temperature was 33 degrees, 50 degrees colder than at the same time the previous day. The 24-hour temperature swing was the second largest drop ever recorded in San Antonio.
The record for the largest temperature drop in 24 hours is 57 degrees, set in December 1990. Austin, however, did break its record on Wednesday after temperatures dropped 57 degrees, from 88 to 31 in a single day. February, while usually one of the colder months in the San Antonio area, has been known to produce wacky weather in the past. Five years ago this month, nine confirmed tornadoes touched down in the region, three of which were in Bexar County. The region rarely experiences tornadoes.
“I would wager that February as a whole holds the highest range between the record high temperature and the record low temperature versus all the other months,” said Keith White, a meteorologist with the