SciGuy Report on January 28, 2012

Before the arrival of this weekend's reinforcing cool front, Houston has been having a very warm January. Through Thursday, the city's average temperature of 59.3 degrees was 6.3 degrees above normal, ranking it as the eighth-warmest January on record. However, this weekend's chilly temperatures should push the month out of the top 10. Forecasters say early February looks warm.

SciGuy Report on January 12, 2012

Houston has yet to have a "hard freeze" this winter, defined by the National Weather Service as temperatures reaching 28 degrees or colder. This winter's two coldest nights came on Dec. 7 and 8, when the temperature bottomed out at 29 degrees. The long-term GFS forecast shows cooler weather during the middle of the week, but has no freezes, let alone hard freezes, occuring in the next two weeks.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/cold-shot-brings-snow-threat-t/60303