Remember That Year Texas Got A Surprise White Easter?

We don't often get snow in most parts of Texas in late spring. When we do it's usually in January and February. Do you remember the time when several East Texas towns were blanketed with surprise snow... in April?

While we'll get an occasional snow flurry or two here in East Texas, several inches of powder is certainly not the norm. And when we do get it, it'll usually melt away by noon -- Snowpacolypse of '21 aside.

But one year, a storm came so late, and on a Saturday, that many of these towns enjoyed a rare white Easter.

If you're reading this, and have a driver's license, you were likely alive that fateful April day when East Texas was blanketed by 4 inches of snow. It happened nearly 18 years ago.

From KTRE:

On this day (April 7th) in weather history nine years ago, Deep East Texas received a rare and unusual late season snowfall. On April 7, 2007, many areas from Crockett to Groveton and over toward Lufkin and Nacogdoches received two-to-four inches of snow. This snow event was historic as it was the latest measurable snowfall to occur this far south in East Texas as far back as the records go.  That made what took place nine years ago today unprecedented.

That much snow here is rare, and the fact that it came so late in the year made it even more exciting. Although we don't get much of the white stuff in ETX, some parts of Texas do.

Do you know which city in Texas is the snowiest? Situated in the panhandle of Texas, Amarillo averages the highest amount of snowfall per year, coming in around 17.9 inches annually.