With three decades of work in the Lone Star state, Texas A&M Regents Professor and state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon called last year “A top-five weather occurrence,” because of the cold, snow and duration all happening at once.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M Regents Professor and state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon has spent the past year trying to make sense of the historic Texas winter freeze of 2021.
With three decades of work in the Lone Star state, Nielsen-Gammon called last year “A top-five weather occurrence,” because of the cold, snow and duration all happening at once.An “anomaly” by definition of the data, Texas’ climate actually continues to warm each year because of the effects of global warming.However, cold spurts are natural occurrences and he says Texas had been more fortunate than most in the region have realized.
“So here’s 2021. Temperatures got in the single digits around the state. You have to go back to 1989 to find something similar or worse,” Nielsen-Gammon said. “I’m not expecting anything like 2021 again this year, but I also wasn’t expecting last year either,” Nielsen-Gammon said.
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