There are plenty of options for an eat-out meal or quick bite on Christmas Day. From fast food restaurants to coffee shops, customers looking to dine out on Dec. 25 will have plenty of options to choose from.

The weather outside won’t be delightful, but we’re hoping it’s not too frightful either! Central Texas is under threat of strong-to-severe storms both on Christmas Eve and the day after Christmas as well. The latest forecast model data is also suggesting severe storm chances have gone up this afternoon, so today will be a First Alert Weather Day.

DALLAS — As storms moved through North Texas on Christmas Eve, they knocked out power for thousands of Oncort customers. By around 1 p.m., over 4,000 customers were affected by outages, according to the Oncor outage map.

A low pressure system will move across the middle of the country and interact with deep Gulf moisture, setting the state for rainfall.