Dylan Zavaleta was one of the many children of Wimberley who were excited for a snow day. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Sophia Pate made snow angels on the trampoline. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Finn Giordano enjoyed playing in the snow.
Vivienne Smith, nine years old, with her snowman.
Carter’s first time seeing snow.
The arrival of the newest member of the Buse family was a cause for celebration. The skies opened and snow fell on his first day home from the hospital.
Tracey Dugger’s cat Princess was not impressed with the falling snow.
Drake Bowling was ready for a snowball fight.
Big sister Cadence using little sister Parker as a shield during a snowball fight with dad.
SNOW DAY!
The Wimberley Valley received one to two inches of snowfall on Sunday, which puts it as one of the highest snowfalls in recent memory.
“I think it would be tied for the most we’ve had since I moved here in 1988,” Ray Schiflett, who provides the Wimberley View’s weekly weather updates, said.
The snow didn’t accumulate as much as it did in December of 2017, the last time it snowed significantly in the Wimberley Valley.
“In 2017, we didn’t really have any rain before hand,” Schiflett said. “The ground was already cold, so when the snow hit, the ground was receptive. This time, we had some heavy rain before the snow started. Temperatures were a degree or so above freezing, so the ground wasn’t as receptive. If it had been three of four degrees colder and it hadn’t rained before, the snow would have stuck.”
Schiflett said that the winter storm started in the northern Pacific and crossed the Rocky Mountains through Denver, Colorado and Albuquerque, New Mexico before moving southeast towards Central Texas.
“We already had a build up of moisture, and that low pressure gave us the lift to get snow,” Schiflett said.
Snow made it as far south as Universal City, but was much heavier in areas north of Austin like Round Rock or Pflugerville reporting more than four inches of snow.