000 AWUS84 KLUB 020226 RWSTX WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 926 PM CDT SUN MAY 1 2005 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLES FROM MIDNIGHT UNTIL NOON ON MONDAY... A CANADIAN COLD FRONT WAS SLICING SOUTHWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. BRISK NORTHEAST WINDS FROM 15 TO 25 MPH WERE DRIVING TEMPERATURES INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S OVER THE OKLAHOMA AND NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLES WHERE AREAS OF RAIN AND SNOW WERE INCREASING. TEMPERATURES A LITTLE FURTHER SOUTH WERE DROPPING THROUGH THE 40S AND 50S OVER THE PANHANDLE AND NORTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE STARTING TO ERUPT ACROSS THIS REGION. MILD CONDITIONS REMAINED SOUTH OF THE FRONT FROM THE PERMIAN BASIN AND CONCHO VALLEY INTO THE TRANS PECOS...BIG BEND...AND FAR WEST REGIONS. WINDS WERE FROM THE SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST WHILE TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE HIGH 60S THROUGH THE 70S. 900 PM EXTREME TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM 39 DEGREES AT DALHART TO A BALMY 80 DEGREES AT EL PASO. WEST TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE FORECAST SUMMARY... MOSTLY CLOUDY TO CLOUDY TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTH TONIGHT...EXPANDING TO INCLUDE ALL AREAS EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. ACCUMULATING SNOW FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE WESTERN OKLAHOMA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST TEXAS PANHANDLES BY EARLY MONDAY. WEDNESDAY SHOULD BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS. COOLER ON MONDAY...WITH HIGHS FROM THE 40S NORTH TO THE 70S AND LOWER 80S SOUTH. TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE A BIT ON TUESDAY WITH HIGHS RANGING FROM THE MID AND UPPER 50S IN THE NORTH TO THE 70S IN THE SOUTH. A LITTLE WARMER YET ON WEDNESDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE 60S AND 70S. LOWS TONIGHT AND MONDAY NIGHT FROM THE LOWER TO MID 30S ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLES TO 40S AND 50S SOUTH. LOWS TUESDAY NIGHT WILL BE IN THE 40S AND 50S REGION WIDE $$ MCQUEEN