I've lived in three states (AR, TX, KS) and each state always claims the phrase, "If you don't like the weather in (insert state here), just wait 15 minutes."
Granted, that has proven to be true in those three states, but I've never seen it more prevalent, more extreme and more accurate than in West Texas.
This morning I awoke at 6:00am to a phone call telling me a meeting I was going to attend at 7:30am this morning had been canceled due to ice and slick roads. Yesterday it flurried lightly for a few hours and never got above 25 degrees. In the afternoon, it began to mist.
However, I never heard a weather report suggesting there might be ice the following morning. Texas Tech remained closed until 10am, and so did all of the area schools and the Lubbock County Court House. I didn't make it to work until 9:30am, and even then the roads were still very slick.
However, while out to lunch I noticed a black, fast moving cloud headed straight south. Within minutes, the cloud overtook Lubbock and suddenly it was a monsoon outside. Heavy rain fell for an hour. Then suddenly the sun came out. The temperature was now at 50 degrees. It didn't even feel like the same day.
A sleet mix fell in south Lubbock, while at the same time in Denver City & Plains (not far to the south and west of Lubbock, near New Mexico) were both about to blow off the map with winds steady at over 60 mph.
The sunny sky over north Lubbock (where I work) soon gave way to the brown tint as the temperature rose that is a familiar sight during the West Texas springtime.
Winds are currently peaking out in the 60mph range and tumbleweeds are on the move.
It went from this...
To this in a matter of hours.
Granted, that has proven to be true in those three states, but I've never seen it more prevalent, more extreme and more accurate than in West Texas.
This morning I awoke at 6:00am to a phone call telling me a meeting I was going to attend at 7:30am this morning had been canceled due to ice and slick roads. Yesterday it flurried lightly for a few hours and never got above 25 degrees. In the afternoon, it began to mist.
However, I never heard a weather report suggesting there might be ice the following morning. Texas Tech remained closed until 10am, and so did all of the area schools and the Lubbock County Court House. I didn't make it to work until 9:30am, and even then the roads were still very slick.
However, while out to lunch I noticed a black, fast moving cloud headed straight south. Within minutes, the cloud overtook Lubbock and suddenly it was a monsoon outside. Heavy rain fell for an hour. Then suddenly the sun came out. The temperature was now at 50 degrees. It didn't even feel like the same day.
A sleet mix fell in south Lubbock, while at the same time in Denver City & Plains (not far to the south and west of Lubbock, near New Mexico) were both about to blow off the map with winds steady at over 60 mph.
The sunny sky over north Lubbock (where I work) soon gave way to the brown tint as the temperature rose that is a familiar sight during the West Texas springtime.
Winds are currently peaking out in the 60mph range and tumbleweeds are on the move.
It went from this...
To this in a matter of hours.
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