From start to finish… a complete look at a supercell’s life-cycle. Cool stuff!
Category: High Plains Weather
Colder Amarillo weather turns stormy – perhaps severe
Wow, it’s cold this morning! After a few flurries and some sticking snow last night across the northern tier of the Texas panhandle and across the Oklahoma panhandle – clear skies let all of the…
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Tornado Video of the Day: “F5 tornado narrowly misses Texas prison”
A very large tornado that went through Pampa, Texas in 1995.
High plains precip estimates
As a early spring system rolls through the high plains it going to feel more like winter than spring. Most recently, the latest computer weather models have come into better agreement with the track of…
Climate change shifting Amarillo weather: Part I (Background)
A lot of times “Global Warming” is a polarizing topic. No pun intended. A lot people say that global warming can’t be real because there have been multiple snow storms, blizzards and winter weather events…
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Amarillo’s weekend forecast gets tricky
Someone needs to consult that groundhog again. It’s looking like a few calm days before we traverse an up-and-down forecast – that includes snow – as we close out the week and start this weekend.…
Amarillo rides temperature roller coaster this week
Amarillo’s weather pattern is only slightly effected by the North Atlantic Oscillation. Generally speaking the more negative the NAO the easier it is for cold air to seep southward east of the Mississippi river. But…
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Texas Panhandle 4pm radar check
There are a few showers and some thunderstorms moving through the western tier of counties across the Texas panhandle this afternoon. The area is lacking in low level moisture which means that light to moderate…
Amarillo precip chances increasing
Latest 18z NAM computer weather model, which is our shorter medium range model, is now bringing in a chance for rain to the panhandles Sunday afternoon / night. Not bad! And that’s not all! The…
Ex-squeeze me?! Baking powder?
Apparently the 06z GFS has pulled a quick U-turn on the 0z projections. And it has gone one step closer to – of all things – December for the high plains. This is the suggested…
