Bottomland hardwood forests play an important role in controlling soil erosion, maintaining water quality, recharging groundwater, and preventing flood damage. Bottomland hardwood forests are considered among the most important habitats for wildlife and are rich in plant and animal species diversity.

Cherokee County’s county seat, the Piney Woods town of Rusk is a stop on the Texas Forest Trail with 32 state historical markers in town. Tyler, known as the “Rose Capital,” is a step back in time to quaint Southern towns of yesteryear.

The East Texas regions includes Tyler, Longview, Texarkana, Lufkin, Marshall, Palestine, Henderson, Jacksonville, Mount Pleasant, and Nacogdoches. Most of the region consists of the Piney Woods ecoregion, and East Texas can sometimes be reduced to include only the Piney Woods.

The East Texas region is primarily a thick forest of pines, hence the name Pineywoods! This woodland is part of a larger forest that extends into Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

France and Spain both sent explorers to see what was here. Spanish explorers first traveled through East Texas and met the Caddo people over 450 years ago. The French came a little while later, and lived in the area for a time.

Cities

• 1 Gladewater.
• 2 Huntsville.
• 3 Kilgore.
• 4 Longview.
• 5 Lufkin.
• 6 Nacogdoches , historic city important to Texas’ early development, the oldest city in the state.
• 7 Texarkana.
• 8 Tyler.

Weather is too cold this time of year in Piney Woods to be enjoyable for warm weather travelers. The average high during this season is between 65.1°F (18.4°C) and 54.9°F (12.7°C). On average, it rains or snows a smalll amount: consistently 1 times per month.

Plants of the East Texas Pineywoods

• Drummond red maple.
• River birch.
• American beech.
• Southern red oak.
• Willow oak.
• Shumard red oak.
• American elm.
• Southern sugar maple.

The Piney Woods are the wettest part of Texas by a wide margin, but although the woods are damp and humid, all the trees make for a very temperate climate year-round. The summers never get too hot and the winters never get too cold.

The Coldest Night in Texas History Some of the coldest weather to ever hit Texas occurred on February 12th of that year. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the state occurred at Tulia in Swisher County in the extreme southern Texas Panhandle. The thermometer dropped to 23 degrees below zero.

The Piney Woods region of East Texas has a gray and tan topsoil that covers the red subsoil usually within about 2 feet (0.6 metre) of the surface. The soil along the upper and middle Texas coast is black clay or loam, with lighter-coloured sandy soil…

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Well, along the Rio Grande, we’re talking about an average —that’s day and night—desert equivalent temperature* of 102° Fahrenheit every summer. That’s the hottest part of Texas in the hottest time of year, but it doesn’t get much cooler anywhere else.

During every season, Florida, Louisiana and Texas are consistently among the top four of the nation’s hottest states, based on state-wide average temperatures. Florida ranks overall as the warmest state year round. The group of tropical islands ranks second to Florida as the country’s hottest state.

Global warming and higher temperatures lead to increased evaporation. Eventually, this increased evaporation leads to increased precipitation. At certain times, when temperatures are cold enough, this precipitation is snowfall.

Texas Snow Reports There is currently no significant snow in the 7-day forecast for Texas.

Cities and states that don’t get snow

• Cities and states that don’t get snow.
• Corpus Christi, Texas.
• Florida (especially South Florida)
• Guam.
• Hawaii (except for the mountains)
• Houston, Texas.
• Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Phoenix, Arizona.

Forty-four years ago, snow fell in Florida, turning the Sunshine State into a winter wonderland. On Jan. 19, 1977, snow fell in South Florida for the first time in recorded history. 19, 1977, snow fell in South Florida for the first time in recorded history.

It was the only time in South Florida history that snow fell from the skies, swirling over palm trees, dazzling school children and surprising the region’s normally sun-baked residents. That was on Jan. 19, 1977 – 35 years ago Thursday. Officially, the National Weather Service recorded it as only a trace of snow.

The highest summits on the Big Island — Mauna Kea (13,803′) and Mauna Loa (13,678′) — are the only two locations in the state to receive snow on a yearly basis.