Santa is expected to bring presents on Christmas Day, and some snow could be trailing him to North Texas.
But it should be a mostly sunny Christmas Eve with temperatures reaching into the upper 50s. Then the clouds start rolling in this evening.Forecasters said Sunday that the area could get a trace or a dusting of snow Christmas Day."Christmas could start out with some rain," said meteorologist Ted Ryan of the National Weather Service office in Fort Worth. "But an arctic front will blast through here around the noon hour and with it very cold temperatures and the chance of snow."The chance of precipitation is 50 percent overnight, increasing to 70 percent Christmas Day."The ground is still too warm for any of the snow to stay on the ground very long," Ryan said.Two to 4 inches of snow is expected to fall near the Red River area of North Texas, and the front is expected to drop 4 to 8 inches of snow in Oklahoma.North Texans will have to bundle up Christmas night. Forecasters say north winds will be about 20-30 mph, gusting to 35, with temperatures in the low 20s. That could mean wind chills in the single digits Wednesday morning.After a high around 36 on Wednesday, North Texans should expect to get some warmer weather during the day Thursday.Domingo Ramirez Jr., 817-390-7763Twitter: @mingoramirezjr
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