
Severe weather and flooding threats will continue for portions of the central U.S. over the next couple of days, with multiple rounds of thunderstorms expected. Dangerous heat will persist across the southern and western U.S. through mid-week. Hot and dry conditions will fuel fire weather concerns for the Intermountain West, where dry thunderstorms may spark additional wildfires. Read More >
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Halloween, or All Hallows' Eve, is celebrated on October 31st. This holiday has come to be associated with everything from pumpkins and spiders to candy and Trick-or-Treaters. Here in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, Halloween is caught between the scorching heat of summer and the bitter cold of winter. For Amarillo, it has been as warm as 81° F (in 2001) and as frigid as 15° F (1991). It's typically dry, with measurable precipitation in only 22 years of 124 years of record keeping for Amarillo. Snow has fallen on only the day in 7 of 124 years on record. The most snow reported was 2.9 inches on Halloween in 1991.
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