The coldest weather of the 2024-25 season has arrived in the southern half of Texas, bringing cold temperatures from the Red River to the Rio Grande.
The cold front moved through the entire state on Sunday, cooling off even Galveston Island, which is expecting a low of about 35 on Monday morning.
A freeze warning from the National Weather Service was issued for the Houston area for Monday morning till 9 am, and a Cold Weather Advisory is in effect for the San Antonio area plus Austin from midnight Monday until 10 am because of very low wind chills predicted between 12 and 20 degrees F.
Overnight lows are expected to hover around freezing for most of South and Southeast Texas for the next several days, with temperatures in the normally mild Rio Grande Valley to drop to the lower 40s by Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Daytime temperatures should be in the 40s and 50s in much of the Southern half of Texas, keeping the state from reaching the deadly conditions that plagued the state in February 2021, which hundreds died during a statewide freeze that lasted day and night for several days and resulted in long power outages in a number of sections of the state.
Temperatures in the San Antonio and Austin areas are expected to drift out of the overnight 30s lows by next week.
Houston and Southeast Texas temperatures are expected to move out of ovenight 30s lows by late next weekend, the Weather Service said on Sunday.