Rare Snowfall Catches Texans by Surprise
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The snow catches onto bright flowers.
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A thermometer displays the frosty conditions.
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The snow begins to pile onto the ground at the Lakeline Mall parking lot.
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Snow forms a white blanket over a car.
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Berries serve as another surface for the snow to cover.
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The snow moves.
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Footprints are seen in the snow, which has covered the entire ground.
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On Thursday Dec. 7, Warriors, along with other Central Texans, were gifted a special holiday treat when snow began falling at approximately 5:20 p.m..
“It’s just great,” Jim Mason ‘21 said. “I’ve lived in Texas all my life and it almost never snows, like this is a lot of snow compared to what I’ve seen before, and I’ve only seen snow actually fall a couple of times.”
Every year many students hope for even a trace of snow, but that wish often falls flat. This year, their wishes were granted in the early days of December.
““I’m so excited,” Ilana Svartz ‘18 said. “It’s snowing and I wore my Christmas sweater. It was a sign.”
While many students were hoping for a White Christmas, few expected the snowfall due to the summer-like temperatures in the area just a couple days prior.
“It’s crazy that earlier this week it was like 80 degrees, and now it’s snowing,” Zoe Rowe ‘18 said.
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