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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 >

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Waco - Thanksgiving Climatology

the fourth Thursday in November   (other dates prior to 1942)

Temperature
  • Normal maximum: 66°F
  • Normal minimum: 43°F
  • Number of freezes: 16
  • Number of days with maximum:
         100°F or more: 0 
         32°F or less: 0
Highest Maximum
Rank Temperature Date
1
(tie)
84 Nov 23, 1967
84 Nov 24, 1910
3 82 Nov 25, 1926
4
(tie)
80 Nov 26, 1981
80 Nov 25, 1965

 

Lowest Minimum
Rank Temperature Date
1 19 Nov 30, 1911
2 25 Nov 24, 1938
3
(tie)
27 Nov 28, 2013
27 Nov 25, 1993
27 Nov 27, 1975

  

Lowest Maximum
Rank Temperature Date
1 38 Nov 25, 1993
2 40 Nov 27, 1952
3 41 Nov 24, 1938
4 43 Nov 26, 1992
5
(tie)
45 Nov 28, 1996
45 Nov 28, 1985
45 Nov 23, 1972
45 Nov 27, 1958
Highest Minimum
Rank Temperature Date
1 67 Nov 26, 2015
2 66 Nov 24, 1966
3
(tie)
65 Nov 27, 1997
65 Nov 28, 1991
65 Nov 25, 1926
65 Nov 30, 1922
 
Precipitation
  • Number of occurrences with any precipitation: 35
  • Number of occurrences with measurable precipitation: 29
  • Average amount when precipitation occurred: 0.31"
  • Chance of measurable precipitation: 24%
  • Number of occurrences of:
         thunder: 6
         snow: 3 
         sleet (ice pellets): 2 
         freezing rain/freezing drizzle (glaze): 1 
         fog: 22
Wettest
Rank Precipitation Date
1 2.33 Nov 24, 2022
2 1.24 Nov 27, 1958
3 1.18 Nov 26, 1914
4 0.85 Nov 22, 1990
5 0.69 Nov 26, 2015