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Last Map Update: Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 3:02:49 pm CST

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Cold Temperatures Today

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Warmer Tuesday Afternoon

Warm & Dry Start to 2026!

Winter has returned behind a cold front with much chillier conditions expected today. Temperatures will struggle to warm out of the 30s to low 40s under mostly cloudy skies. A few snow flurries are possible across the southwest South Plains.

It will be cold again tonight, with lows in the teens and 20s.

After a chilly day on Monday, and cold start on Tuesday, temperatures will warm to the middle and upper 50s Tuesday afternoon. A few spots off the Caprock could even briefly breach the 60 degree mark as sunny skies prevail.

Temperatures will jump back well above average to close out 2025 and start 2026. Dry conditions will persist. Highs by New Year's Day will 70s for most locations across the South Plains.

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Local Weather History For December 29th...

2009: The second winter storm to impact the South Plains in a week began to produce snow over the southwestern South
Plains around 8 AM on the morning of the 29th. Moderate to occasionally heavy snowfall then spread northeastward over
portions of the South Plains through the afternoon hours. Hazardous road conditions contributed to several accidents in
Yoakum County, and evacuations resulted in a Lubbock neighborhood when a car slid into a gas meter. The heaviest snow
accumulations of four inches fell in Denver City, Morton, and Olton. Periods of light snow persisted through the nighttime
hours and travel conditions remained hazardous from snow packed and icy roadways. At least two serious auto accidents
resulted in injuries and a fatality in Hale and Lubbock Counties during the morning hours of the 30th as motorists were
simply traveling too fast for such poor road conditions. Local officials reported that a women died when her vehicle
rolled and hit oncoming traffic after losing control on ice near Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport just before 9
AM. Another woman was seriously injured in an accident near Petersburg.