Blizzard warning

silver_pilate

silver_pilate

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It's 70 degrees right now, and the weather service has issues a blizzard warning starting tonight through tomorrow evening. Gotta love west Texas. Looks like the lion's share of snow will be north a good ways, but we may see 2-4 inches with 55 mph winds. Models are showing 20-30 inches in the far north panhandle. Doubt they see that much.

--Nathan Burgess
 
The low dipped a bit further south. Looking at 3-6 inches here and still 20 inches up north. It's in the 20's right now, but shouldn't get much colder. My son has a cold, but we're going to go out and play in the snow later regardless. They've closed all the schools, and Texas Tech is closed in Lubbock and Amarillo, so I have a day off. I-27 is also closed.

--nathan
 
I'm about 4 hours south of you and we were hopint to get a bit of rain from this but so far we've only had super strong winds and a very light sprinkle last night. Hope you stay warm.
 
Oh yeah. We get sone every year. Usually a mix of ice and snow. But the wind served as a plow yesterday except for a few drifts it made
 
Here are some pics from the folks place about 45 miles north of Lubbock. Up to 60 mph gusts through the day and 44 mph sustained winds drove the snow pretty hard. As it was, they got around 8 inches on the levels, but had some pretty massive drifts.

This first picture is a drift inside their garage. They had the door down, but the wind blew snow in under the side-seal and created a 2.5' drift in the garage itself.

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This pictures is of the backyard. The fence is about 6.5' tall.

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Another picture behind the fence which is on the north side of the property. Close to 7' tall drifts here that span the entire fence line (around 100 feet) and extend out 20-30' from the fence.

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Amarillo got 19" of snow in a single day, while some places in the panhandle had more. We only got about 3.5" here in Lubbock.

--nathan
 
Impressive pictures Nathan; the wind must have been moving along at a pretty good clip.
 
It blew hard starting the night before and going through the entire day. Sustained winds were around 40 all day long with gusts 15-20mph higher. If you saw any other pictures of the land surrounding my parents' house, you wouldn't be surprised at the drifts. The nearest structure or tree to their house is over 1/2 mile away to the east, and the wind was blowing hard from the north. In that direction, it's over 2 miles before you have any isolated house, barn, or tree to block the wind. Nothing but smooth, flat, tree and bushless cotton fields.

--nathan
 
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