000 AWUS84 KLUB 161716 RWSTX WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1115 AM CST WED MAR 16 2005 LATE THIS MORNING....SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY SOUTH AND EAST OF A MEMPHIS TO BROWNFIELD TO ALPINE LINE. ELSEWHERE...FROM THE PANHANDLES TO FAR WEST TEXAS...SKIES WERE MOSTLY SUNNY. TEMPERATURES AT 1100 AM RANGED FROM THE UPPER TEENS AND 20S OVER THE DEEP SNOW LOCATED IN THE WESTERN PANHANDLES AND NORTHWEST SOUTH PLAINS TO THE MID 40S ACROSS THE WESTERN PERMIAN BASIN. TEMPERATURE EXTREMES WERE 45 DEGREES AT WINK AND PECOS AND 18 DEGREES AT DALHART. WINDS WERE WEST TO NORTH AT 5 TO 15 MPH. OVERNIGHT LOWS WERE MOSTLY IN THE 20S AND 30S...EXCEPT ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLES WHERE TEMPERATURES GENERALLY FELL INTO THE TEENS. DALHART WAS THE EXTREME WITH A LOW OF 9. WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE FORECAST SUMMARY... CLOUDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE FROM WEST TO EAST THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE BIG COUNTRY THROUGH THE EDWARDS PLATEAU...WITH SUNNY TO PARTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS ELSEWHERE. HIGHS THIS AFTERNOON WILL RANGE FROM THE 30S OVER THE SNOWPACK IN THE PANHANDLES AND SOUTH PLAINS TO THE 50S SOUTH. CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES WILL DOMINATE THE REGION FROM TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 20S AND 30S. HIGH THURSDAY WILL VARY FROM THE 40S OVER THE WESTERN PANHANDLES TO 60S AND 70S SOUTH. EXPECT LOWS THURSDAY NIGHT IN THE 30S AND 40S...WITH HIGHS FRIDAY FROM THE 50S PANHANDLES TO NEAR 80 ALONG THE RIO GRANDE OF THE BIG BEND. $$