I keep track of the amount of time spent with windchills below freezing and heat indexes above 100F. I've only been doing it since 2019, but this year with this expected week, we are about to blow past 418 hours below freezing of 2021. We are currently at 383 hours which has been about the average for the past 5 years. And this year started super slow, with less than 100 hours going into January 1.

If you are curious, we generally spend about 500 hours above 100F heat index, and the horrible summer of 2023 had 700 hours.

Dallas is more balanced than one might think between wind chill below freezing and heat index above 100F, only about 100 hours generally separate most years. 100 hours is about 4 full 24 hour days. The difference is the cold hours are generally in the middle of the night and early morning when people are sleeping, the heat is at 1:00pm-10:00pm when we want to do stuff.