{"id":99343,"date":"2025-12-24T03:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/99343\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:56:14","slug":"white-christmas-in-houston-maybe-but-not-the-snowy-kind-youre-thinking-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/99343\/","title":{"rendered":"White Christmas in Houston? Maybe, but not the snowy kind you\u2019re thinking \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"Foggy<\/p>\n

Lucio Vasquez \/ Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

Downtown Houston is blanketed by fog on Sept. 13, 2021.<\/p>\n

Some Houstonians might say the weather outside is frightful, but not because of any snow, as Houston could be close to matching a 2015 record for warmest Christmas on the books.<\/p>\n

Dec. 25 is on track to be a warm day, with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s. That’s as much as 20 degrees warmer than the average Houston holiday.<\/p>\n

“It’s very toasty,” Bradley Brokamp, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service<\/a>, said. “We are well above normal temperatures slated for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and obviously the next several days as well.”<\/p>\n

Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n

The warmest Christmas in southeast Texas came in 2015, according to Brokamp, when Houston saw a high of 83 degrees. It’s possible this Christmas could match or exceed that record.<\/p>\n

There’s also a possibility of fog across the region, particularly closer to the Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n

“I guess it’s technically a white Christmas, if you’re very loose with the definition of such,” Brokamp said. “Ignoring the fact that it’s going to be fog instead of snow, but I guess it’s still technically white outside in the morning.”<\/p>\n

Snow likely isn’t in the cards, but Houston is on track to see a cooldown this Sunday, when the likely final cold front of 2025 hits the city. At that point, temperatures could actually be 5 to 10 degrees below average for that time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucio Vasquez \/ Houston Public Media Downtown Houston is blanketed by fog on Sept. 13, 2021. Some Houstonians…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[44928,1768,7216,45799,56,58,57,66,1971,223,44907,172],"class_list":["post-99343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-christmas-weather","tag-climate","tag-galveston","tag-holiday-weather","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news","tag-warm-weather","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343","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=99343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}