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post #1 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:24pm
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The high today in Amarillo was 56, that was at about 4:22 pm. Currently (6:22 pm) it is 23 with a windchill of 13. Morning lows are to be in the teens with a -22 wind chill in the Oklahoma panhandle.

I sure wish the electricity would come back on at my house. It's gonna be a cold one tonight.
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post #2 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:31pm
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Originally Posted by bcpool View Post
The high today in Amarillo was 56, that was at about 4:22 pm. Currently (6:22 pm) it is 23 with a windchill of 13. Morning lows are to be in the teens with a -22 wind chill in the Oklahoma panhandle.

I sure wish the electricity would come back on at my house. It's gonna be a cold one tonight.
Stay warm.
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post #3 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:46pm
I went to high school in Childress, and remember that happening a few times.

There's not much in the way of a cold air mass moving from the Arctic towards Amarillo.
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post #4 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:46pm
Having spent four years of my life on the Staked Plains (Lubbock, while I was teaching at Texas Tech), I can remember temps dropping 30 degrees in two hours! My sinuses have never really recovered from my sojourn there.

One of the nice things about the weather in West Texas is that if you don't like it, wait around and it will change quickly. I woke up one Sunday morning to a blizzard-like snowstorm. By early that afternoon it had warmed up so much that I washed my car wearing my swimming trunks!
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post #5 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:50pm
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I'm just glad we aren't running any cattle. I'd hate to have to get up and break ice and feed in the morning.
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post #6 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:53pm
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Originally Posted by JLibourel View Post
Having spent four years of my life on the Staked Plains (Lubbock, while I was teaching at Texas Tech), I can remember temps dropping 30 degrees in two hours! My sinuses have never really recovered from my sojourn there.

One of the nice things about the weather in West Texas is that if you don't like it, wait around and it will change quickly. I woke up one Sunday morning to a blizzard-like snowstorm. By early that afternoon it had warmed up so much that I washed my car wearing my swimming trunks!

good god libourel! it's like you're stalking me or something. i was in lubbock for four years, too ... 1978 to 1981 (well, it felt like four years).

and copied from another thread yesterday:

"in my misspent youth i lived for a while in lubbock and i remember working on my car one afternoon when the temperature dropped 50 degrees in two hours. i had to change the battery, which wasn't so bad when it was 75, but by the time i was done i could barely feel my fingers. (and yes, two hours is a VERY long time to change a battery, but that's why i'm foodguy, not carguy)."


too funny. now that we're both in long beach.
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post #7 of 10
1/6/10 at 9:58pm
^Other way around, Russ. I was in Lubbock from '69 to '73. I only moved to Long Beach in '94, so you might precede me there, though.
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post #8 of 10
1/6/10 at 10:00pm
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Originally Posted by JLibourel View Post
^Other way around, Russ. I was in Lubbock from '69 to '73. I only moved to Long Beach in '94, so you might precede me there, though.

yeah, but this is on the internet, right? so it's post time: things don't actually occur until they've been recorded. whoever posted first, it happened first.

PS: just came in from my backyard where i picked a half-dozen really ripe tangelos. hundreds more on tree.
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post #9 of 10
1/7/10 at 12:37am
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^Other way around, Russ. I was in Lubbock from '69 to '73. I only moved to Long Beach in '94, so you might precede me there, though.

You're old as dirt.
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post #10 of 10
1/7/10 at 7:28am
I was in Dallas one day when the temperature dropped from 84 to 32 in 30 minutes, took awhile to finish freezing, but dropped to 29 within the hour.
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