Will it snow in Dallas-Fort Worth on Thanksgiving Day? Here’s what historical data says

Last Thanksgiving was the fourth wettest Thanksgiving on record in Dallas-Fort Worth, with 0.70 inches of rainfall, per the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

Will Thankgiving 2023 follow suit? Here’s what past Thanksgiving holiday weather in North Texas hints at.

What will the temperature be on Thanksgiving Day 2023?

The temperature will likely be between 43 to 63 degrees on Thanksgiving day. The normal maximum temperature for the fourth Thursday in November is 63 degrees, while the normal minimum is 43 degrees. There have been 19 freezes in DFW during the holiday.

Coldest, hottest Thanksgiving in Dallas-Fort Worth

The coldest Thanksgiving ever was in 1993, when the low was 23 and the high was only 35 degrees. The hottest was in 1965, which reached a record high of 88 degrees. The Thanksgiving of 1945 was the first killing frost of that winter with a low temperature of 31 degrees. In 1905, the first killing frost of the season was a hard freeze, with a morning low of 23 degrees.

Historically, the maximum has been anywhere between 35 to 88 degrees and the minimum from 21 to 66 degrees. The highest maximum temperature for turkey day in the Metroplex was 88 degrees in 1965, while the lowest maximum was 35 degrees in 1993. The lowest minumum temperature was 21 degrees in 1911, and the highest minimum was 66 degrees in 2015.

Will Dallas-Fort Worth see snow on Thanksgiving Day?

There’s a 19% of measurable precipitation on Thanksgiving. There have been 33 Thanksgivings in DFW with any precipitation, and 24 with measurable precipitation. The average amount was 0.37 inches.

There have been 23 Thanksgivings with fog and six with thunder. There has only been one instance of Thanksgiving snow, one instance of sleet and one of freezing rain. Freezing rain and sleet fell in 1993, the first time that wintry precipitation was ever recorded on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving 2007 saw a mix of sleet and snow.

The wettest Thanksgiving in North Texas, according to NWS Fort Worth, was in 1914 when 3.06 inches of precipation fell. The second occured more than a century later in 2015, with 2.71 inches.