Cold/Wind Chill in Coastal Willacy, Texas

Cold/Wind Chill February 19, 2025 – February 22, 2025 · Coastal Willacy, Texas

What the National Weather Service wrote

Port Isabel Airport (PIL) ASOS recorded about 47.5 hours of wind chills at or below 30F degrees from 10:30pm on February 19 to 1:35pm on February 20th, from 3:25pm on February 20th to 10:53am on February 21st, and from 3:50am to 4:40pm on February 22. Minimum wind chill temperatures between 21-23F degrees occurred on February 20th.

By proxy, similar conditions likely occurred around the same time in Coastal Willacy County.

The wider storm

Behind the passage of a strong cold front, a cold air mass gripped and lingered over Deep South Texas and the Rio Grande valley resulting in freezing temperatures, locally extreme cold, and a third sea turtle cold-stunning event February 20-22, 2025. More than 175 sea turtles were stunned when the sea surface temperature of the lower Laguna Madre fell below 50 at several points during the period, as air temperatures hovered from the mid to upper 30s to lower 40s.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1239975. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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