Heavy rainfall from scattered thunderstorms is expected across the Southwest, Intermountain West, and Plains. Isolated dry thunderstorms may initiate additional fires across the west. The coastal Carolinas may experience flash floods in the coming days due to repeated thunderstorms. Additionally, a wave of intense summer heat will hit the Southern Plains and central Gulf Coast States this week. Read More >
Amarillo, TX
Weather Forecast Office
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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US Dept of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Weather Service
Amarillo, TX
1900 English Road
Amarillo, TX 79108
(806) 335-1121
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