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Last Map Update: Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:18:33 am CST

A Cold Weather Advisory is in effect from through 9 AM Friday morning for the entire area. Wind chill values as low as -8°F are expected.
Another very cold night is expected with air temperatures falling into the single digits to lower teens across the area.
More due southerly winds and sunshine will allow temperatures to slightly increase more tomorrow. Highs will climb into the upper 30s.
Much warmer temperatures arrive this weekend and into next week. Cloud cover will increase late Saturday into early Sunday, with some sprinkles possible across the far southern South and Rolling Plains. But, we expect no measurable precipitation over the next 7 days.

 

 

 

Local Weather History For February 20th...
1961 (20th-21st): The biggest snowstorm of the season and one of the heaviest ever on record for the South Plains struck
Hockley, Yoakum, Lamb, Cochran, Lubbock, and Terry Counties. Amounts ranged from 10 to 20 inches with 20 inches measured
at both Plains and Levelland and 12 inches recorded at Lubbock...both of which set 24-hour records for snowfall. At
Levelland, the weight of 20 inches of snow collapsed roofs of four cotton warehouses and a number of carports. The roof of
one warehouse collapsed in Lubbock.