Hot, Humid Weather in Texas

The information here tells how often heat combines with humidity in Texas cities to create uncomfortably muggy weather.

The apparent temperature, also known as the Heat Index, measures how hot the weather really feels, considering both temperature and humidity. For instance, a temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 ° Celsius) along with 60 % humidity pushes the apparent temperature to 100 °F (37.8 °C).

At low levels of humidity, high temperatures seem cooler than what the thermometer reads. This sometimes is the case for hot weather in Texas.

These tables list the number of days when the actual temperature and the apparent temperature rose to least 95, 105 or 115 °F (35, 40.6 or 46.1 °C) for an hour or more. The totals are for the 30 years from 1978 to 2007.

The final table breaks the totals into yearly averages for the days when apparent temperatures reach 95 and 105 °F.

Total days with the temperature at least 95 °F
City Actual Apparent
Abilene 1340 1407
Amarillo 671 293
Brownsville 952 4013
Corpus Christi 743 3671
Dallas & Fort Worth 1610 2467
Houston 501 2917
Lubbock 1023 642
Midland 1525 940
Port Arthur 337 2949
San Angelo 1603 1491
San Antonio 1454 2659
Victoria 894 3269
Wichita Falls 1796 2266
Total days with the temperature at least 105 °F
City Actual Apparent
Abilene 28 33
Amarillo 11 0
Brownsville 2 572
Corpus Christi 3 729
Dallas & Fort Worth 52 352
Houston 7 460
Lubbock 33 3
Midland 45 13
Port Arthur 3 392
San Angelo 38 27
San Antonio 5 89
Victoria 3 308
Wichita Falls 177 381
Total days with the temperature at least 115 °F
City Actual Apparent
Abilene 0 1
Amarillo 0 0
Brownsville 0 5
Corpus Christi 0 5
Dallas & Fort Worth 0 4
Houston 0 11
Lubbock 0 0
Midland 0 0
Port Arthur 0 12
San Angelo 0 0
San Antonio 0 1
Victoria 0 2
Wichita Falls 2 12
Average days a year of apparent temperature
City 95+ °F 105+ °F
Abilene 47 1
Amarillo 10 0
Brownsville 134 19
Corpus Christi 122 24
Dallas & Fort Worth 82 12
Houston 97 15
Lubbock 21 0
Midland 31 0
Port Arthur 98 13
San Angelo 50 1
San Antonio 89 3
Victoria 109 10
Wichita Falls 76 13
References

Peter Browning and Brian Walawender. 2009. A Climatology of Apparent Temperature. 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change.

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