000 AWUS44 KLUB 220209 SWSTX WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 915 PM CDT TUE OCT 21 2003 CLEAR SKIES PREVAILED ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING EXCEPT FOR HIGH THIN CLOUDS OVER PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLES. TEMPERATURES AT 900 PM CDT HAD FALLEN INTO THE MID 60S TO LOWER 70S WITH EXTREMES RANGING FROM 62 DEGREES AT MULESHOE TO 80 AT CHILDRESS. WINDS WERE LIGHT AND VARIABLE AT 5 MPH OR LESS. HIGH TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON WERE ONCE AGAIN VERY WARM... AVERAGING SOME 15 TO 20 DEGREES ABOVE CLIMATIC NORMALS. RECORDS WERE BROKEN AT CHILDRESS AND LUBBOCK WITH RESPECTIVE TEMPERATURES AT 93 AND 90 DEGREES. OTHER HIGH TEMPS AROUND THE REGION WERE MAINLY IN THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S. EXTREMES VARIED FROM 78 DEGREES AT GUADALUPE PASS TO A HOT 95 AT BOTH MEMPHIS AND GUTHRIE. WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE FORECAST SUMMARY... MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 40S AND 50S...NEAR 60 ALONG THE RIO GRANDE. HIGHS WEDNESDAY WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S. ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY. LOWS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHTS WILL BE RANGE FROM THE MID 40S NORTH TO NEAR 60 ALONG THE RIO GRANDE. HIGHS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL BE IN THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S. $$