DFW - New Year's Eve Climatology

Heavy Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorm Threats for the Plains and Southeast

A frontal boundary extending from the western High Plains to the Southeast will focus additional showers and thunderstorms this weekend. Some of these storms may become severe, alongside frequent lightning, and isolated instances of flash flooding. Meanwhile dry conditions will continue for the Great Basin where fire weather concerns linger. For the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, seasonable weather. 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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