El Niño is coming back to visit....

After a few weeks off for a Christmas break, El Niño will be visiting San Antonio later this week, bring copious quantities of rain and a chance for some snow in West Texas and possibly the Hill Country. Right now, the highest rainfall totals will be to our east, as usual, but we could see 1-2 inches of rain in our area. Computer models were looking more "bullish" for snow in our area a couple of days ago, but the latest runs point to cold rain instead of snow. I will continue to monitor this system as we get further into the week.

Our low in Helotes last night was 22 and we may approach 50 by the afternoon. Clouds start moving in on Monday and should be with us through Saturday...

BTW...a record low temperature of 13 degrees was set at Austin Bergstrom today. This breaks the old record of 15 set in 1962.