{"id":101317,"date":"2025-12-26T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101317\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:38:07","slug":"dallas-weather-record-warmth-continues-before-big-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101317\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Weather: Record warmth continues before big plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; The record warmth is expected to continue for at least a few more days before winter returns to North Texas.<\/p>\n<p> Weekend Forecast   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/605132112_911725174556604_8460498126645809434_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">According to the FOX 4 Weather team, the highs on Friday will climb into the mid-80s.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The weekend remains 20 to 25 degrees above normal ahead of the next cold front, which should arrive on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The front will bring a few showers and storms, with no severe weather expected.<\/p>\n<p> 7-Day Forecast <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/605207897_911743344554787_2825584468792577211_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Behind the cold front, much colder air arrives early next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Temperatures on Monday will be in the 30s, with highs only climbing into the 40s on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Most of North Texas is expected to drop below freezing on Monday night into Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Then, it will slowly warm up back closer to normal as we ring in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p> Christmas Record <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766756287_412_603897065_910285484700573_1093531675764751736_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Christmas Day this year tied the record for the second warmest on record.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The official high temperature for Thursday was 80 degrees. A record of 82 degrees was set in 2021. It was also 80 degrees on Christmas Day in 2016.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The high has been in the 50s for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The National Weather Service considers 56 the normal temperature for North Texas based on averages from 1991 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p> Deadly Tornado  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">It\u2019s been 10 years since a devastating tornado outbreak hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">On Dec. 26, 2015, 12 confirmed tornadoes touched down across eight counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Sunnyvale-Garland-Rowlett Tornado was rated an EF-4 and produced winds in excess of 166 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Sadly, 13 people died. More than half of those fatalities occurred as the tornado crossed Interstate 30 and the President George Bush Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Several other people were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from FOX 4 Meteorologist Ali Turiano, reporter Alex Boyer, the National Weather Service, and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; The record warmth is expected to continue for at least a few more days before winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,172],"class_list":["post-101317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}