Think El Paso’s Recent Winter Storm Was Bad? Be Glad It Wasn’t Like These

Last weekends snow "storm" was pretty cool, (no pun intended), but in true El Paso fashion; our first taste of winter was way short lived and very short of record breaking.

For those who say last weekends snow caught them off guard, said they couldn't drive, or were otherwise at natures mercy during the "freak winter storm"; chill, (again, no pun intended), out.

If 2026 winged you, 1983 and 1987 would have totally done you in.

First off, check out the stats from the winter of 1983. According to weather.gov, from 1960 - 1980, El Paso seemed to average between 5 or 6 inches to about 8 inched of snow annually.

How Much Snow Fell In 1983?

A late snow, in April no less, dropped 16.5 inches of snow in El Paso. If you think the simple sight of a snow flake can send the 915 into a tizzy now, imagine what happened that year.

That's a lot of snow all right but 1983 was still not a record setting snow year. Not by a long shot ...

READ MORE: Extreme El Paso Weather Records

When Did El Paso Have The Most Snow?

That honor goes to December - January of 1987. Mother Nature got tired of all that "we never get snow" whining and said, fine ... HERE. 25 inches in some reports, (25.9 says weather.gov), fell that year.

Most snow in one winter: 22.4 inches fell between 5 a.m. Sunday and Monday afternoon, setting a new record for the official November-to-February winter season. The previous record was 18.5 inches in 1982-83..- EPTimes

Northeast El Paso got the worst of that one according to the El Paso Times article quoted above.