National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

A storm system will bring light wintry precipitation to portions of West Texas on Monday. The southwestern South Plains will see the best chances of accumulating snowfall.
Winter has returned behind a cold front with much chillier conditions expected Monday. Temperatures Monday will struggle to warm out of the 30s to low 40s under cloudy skies. A few snow flurries are possible across much of the Caprock Monday, with some very light accumulation across the southwestern South Plains.
Cold temperatures will continue tonight into early Tuesday morning.
A gradual warming trend is expected this week, with well above average temperatures in the 70s returning by New Year's Day.

 

 

 

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.