DFW - New Year's Eve Climatology

Areas of Extreme Heat and Fire Weather in the West; Refreshingly Cooler Further East

Extreme heat will continue across the Pacific Northwest into midweek before finally waning. Hot temperatures, low relative humidity, gusty winds, and isolated dry thunderstorms will bring critical fire weather into Tuesday. A refreshingly cool air mass has settled into much of the eastern two-thirds of the Rockies through the week. Read More >

Dallas/Fort Worth - New Year's Eve Climatology

December 31

Temperature
Normal maximum: 56°F Normal minimum: 36°F Number of freezes: 43 Number of days with maximum: 100°F or more: 0 32°F or less: 8

Rank	Temperature	Year
Highest Maximum
1	85	1951
2 (tie)	77	1964
	77	1929
	77	1909
5	76	1920

Rank	Temperature	Year
Lowest Minimum
1 (tie)	13	1990
1 (tie)	13	1976
3	15	1927
4 (tie)	16	1968
4 (tie)	16	1911

Rank	Temperature	Year
Lowest Maximum
1	25	1946
2	26	1927
3	30	1898
4 (tie)	31	1978
	31	1976
	31	1923

Rank	Temperature	Year
Highest Minimum
1	63	1951
2	62	1965
3	59	1940
4	57	2004
5 (tie)	54	1937
5 (tie)	54	1915

Precipitation

Number of occurrences with any precipitation: 43
Number of occurrences with measurable precipitation: 31
Average amount when precipitation occurred: 0.21"
Chance of measurable precipitation: 24%
Number of occurrences of:
   thunder: 3
     snow: 8
     sleet (ice pellets): 4
     freezing rain/freezing drizzle (glaze): 2
     fog: 33

Rank	Precipitation	Year
Wettest
1	1.64	2020
2	1.55	1984
3	1.21	1947
4	0.80	1959
5	0.65	1978

Significant Events

2009 - Light snow fell in areas northwest of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. In portions of Montague County, snow remained on the ground from the heavy snow event on Christmas Eve.
2000 - Officially, 0.7" of snow fell during the afternoon at DFW Airport. However, there were several reports of 2" snow depths across the Meteroplex. Thundersnow occurred in southwest Dallas and northwest Ellis counties where local snow depths as much as 4" were observed.
1978 - An ice storm, which was more severe in Dallas than Fort Worth, was not represented at DFW Airport.
1959 - A trace of snow fell.
1958 - There was a trace of snow left on the ground from a previous storm.
1947 - Snow and sleet amounted to only a trace.
1946 - Snow and sleet accumulated to 2.6".

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