Place: Austin, TX Year: 1937 Event: 9.7-inch snowfall -- maximum 24 hour-snowfall and maximum for one season. This was the only snow Austin had all season.
Place: Wisconsin/IL Year: 1989 Event: Snow squalls with thunder and lightning at Milwaukee, where 9 inches fell. Eleven inches fell at Waukegan and 2.1 inches at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.