If you watch any national news broadcast today or tomorrow, I have a prediction. There is a 100-percent chance of weather bologna. It’s a guarantee. Weather grabs ratings, and ratings matter more than anything. So…
Tag: cold
Not all weather records are created equal
Truth is, I knew this. But, at times, I get lulled into a false sense of National-Weather-Service-security. The NWS has created quite the reputation of being pretty dependable over the past 15 years. Sometimes it…
Northeast braces for wind machine, blizzard conditions
Wednesday will prove to be a very close call for the Northeast. Right now, models are very close to one another in terms of projected path and wind speeds, but differ in the amount of…
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“Lousy Smarch weather,” a cold night for southern plains
Simpsons references aside, if you live west of Chicago and north of San Antonio, get the extra blankets out. The southern plains are about to get whalluped with cold air tonight. After the current system…
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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,…
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,…
High Plains forecast remains tricky
Just in case you were ready for the spring-like weather to continue, Mother Nature is here to remind you that it is still late January and early February. Across the southern high plains today, passing…
Weekend storm baffles computer models
As the next cold front sets up to slam across the southern plains, it’s not to say that the computer weather models we depend on are failing us, it is just that they aren’t exactly…
Detailed forecast for Amarillo – 12/4/13
Here is a detailed look at the weather setup over the next few days.
Modified arctic air slams southern high plains
Scenario Arctic air from the depths of Canada is set to slide south along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains and cruise over the top of the southern high plains starting Wednesday afternoon. The…