Wildfire dangers continue across Texas panhandle
Today across the southern Texas panhandle and across parts of west Texas there will be elevated to critical fire weather dangers. Please exercise extreme caution in these areas today. Elevated to critical fire weather dangers are realized when: • Afternoon temperatures are greater than 10F above average (“ridging” at 850mb is also a player) • Wind speeds are in excess… Read more →
The cold air is here… Early
Update (12:05pm): It looks like the warm downsloping winds are eroding away at the cold air in some of the western and southwestern counties. Original Text (9:35am): Cold air doesn’t play any games. Or rather, perhaps it does? If it does play games, though, it rarely follows any rules. It just makes them up as it goes. And it often… Read more →
Winter returns to southern high plains
Scenario A quasi-zonal flow with a few embedded systems will keep the southern high plains active in the coming days. This will increase the “prospects for precip” in the coming week. In fact, a relatively, active pattern will emerge by Monday where the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles have a chance for moisture every other day. Right now, it appears that… Read more →
Cold front timing changes high plains weather
The speed of frontal boundaries is often tricky. When the seasons change, the speed of the fronts is even more difficult to decipher. On top of that, generally speaking, fronts tend to be inconsistent when passing across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. With all of that said, here we are on a Thursday morning looking to the northwest waiting for… Read more →
