If you are looking for fresh snow by Christmas morning or are curious about potential travel disruptions, the best chances for at least 1" of new snowfall early this week exist across the mountainous West, Great Lakes, and Northeast. Otherwise, temperatures this last full week of December will average above normal for much of the lower 48 states. 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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