Thirty-two years ago Thursday something pretty dramatic happened in San Antonio Weather.
"We saw up to 13 and 1/2 inches of snow that fell in a 24-hour period...easily shattering and breaking the previous record of only 5 inches," says the National Weather Service's Jason Runyen.
Runyen is a long-time San Antonian, and he remembers it from the standpoint of an 8-year-old.
"We were building a snowman, I remember sledding down the street. We did get a snow day, so Monday we were out of school," he says.
Something a lot of San Antonians didn't know, or forgot, was the inch and a half of snow that fell two weeks previous.
"So, there was two snow storms in about a two-week span, something that just doesn't usually happen this far south," Runyen says.
Lorraine Pulido was a high school freshman at Harlandale, and remembers it well.
"None of us had ever had a snowball fight," Pulido says. "It was our first time. We knew that that's kind of what you had to do, from watching TV and movies."
Pulido posted a picture on Facebook showing her next to a snowman as tall as she was.
"I'm kind of taken aback by the fact that the snowman seems to be dressed in better attire than I am. Something warmer. He's wearing a blanket--a sarape. And I'm over here with a very light jacket, which I think is the best that we had at the time."
The storm just about brought San Antonio to a standstill for three days, as it stuck, and then stayed on the ground. This afternoon's high temperature: 79.
