“Zoomin’ with Zoe” focuses on notable features in the weather, and this week, meteorologist Zoe Mintz is taking a look at the warmest winter temperature ever recorded in the United States.
On Feb. 26, the U.S. didn’t just observe the first triple-digit temperatures of the year, but the warmest, all-time winter temperature on record, and it wasn’t in Arizona. It happened in a place you might not expect – Let’s zoom to South Texas.
The Falcon Dam weather station along the Rio Grande in southeastern Texas recorded a preliminary temperature of 106 degrees, making it the hottest ever temperature felt during the winter months. The previous record wasn’t far away. It reached 104 degrees in Rio Grande City, Texas, in 1902…