Mainly sunny skies are expected with high temperatures around 70 degrees. The five day extended forecast “looks quiet and pleasant,” predicts the NWS. With wind gusts up to 30 mph, the wind chill readings will be 22 to 32 degrees F.

Highs will be around 50 according to the National Weather Service. In Corpus Christi, weather forecasts expect clear skies by mid day, with temperatures remaining below normal. Winter Storm Benji started in West Texas on Thursday morning, Dec. 8, the snow will reach southern New Jersey. Rare winter storm warnings have been issued for Corpus Christi, Texas Jackson, Mississippi and parts of the Atlanta metro area. Known as Winter Storm Benji, the band of snow stretches along the Gulf Coast from Texas, over the top of the Florida panhandle to North Carolina. Some resident in Southside Corpus Christi were not so lucky as they woke to the snow and the dark. Lucero had generators on standby but never needed to turn them on to keep his Ingleside home warm. However rare the snow, power outages during any kind of rough weather are not. “Last time we had snow was December, 25, 2004. “Snow comes every 12 years it seems,” said Lucero. Rene Lucero, a retired veteran who has lived in the Coastal Bend for almost two decades, remembers that snow and wasn’t all that surprised by this one. The last measurable snow was on Christmas Eve in 2004, which measured a record breaking 2.3 inches.

Weather records show this is only the eighth snow on record in the city since 1948. My kids light up like a Christmas tree when they saw it!” “We are from Hawaii, so the chance to see snow in South Texas, I had to wake them up. building a snowman in front of their Aransas Pass home. Kalegrace Aceret and her three kids were out in the snow at 5 a.m. By morning, some parts of South Texas measured up to three inches of the cold white stuff, which also moved through Austin and San Antonio before reaching the coast. A rare South Texas snow that began after dark and lasted through the night inspired some Corpus Christi residents to stay up with the flurries.

The Christmas Top by Christi Snow