35.6260, -100.5500

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1. TodaySep 3084°65°Mostly Sunny78%0.27 inwind 24 mph · gusts 32 mph
2. ThuOct 179°54°Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers21%wind 21 mph · gusts 26 mph
3. FriOct 267°51°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy42%0.02 inwind 20 mph · gusts 25 mph
4. SatOct 373°54°Mostly Sunny1%wind 7 mph
5. SunOct 478°55°Sunny4%wind 8 mph · gusts 14 mph
6. MonOct 579°56°Sunny4%wind 8 mph · gusts 14 mph
7. TueOct 681°58°Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers15%0.08 inwind 16 mph · gusts 24 mph
8. WedOct 782°60°27%0.10 inwind 10 mph · gusts 16 mph
9. ThuOct 885°60°National Blend5%wind 7 mph
10. FriOct 984°59°National Blend3%wind 8 mph · gusts 14 mph
11. SatOct 1084°57°National Blend3%wind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph
12. SunOct 11~69°57°Model mean0.02 in
13. MonOct 12~70°53°Model mean
14. TueOct 13~72°52°Model mean
15. WedOct 14~74°52°Model mean
16. ThuOct 15~67°56°Model mean0.02 in

• Feels like78°
• WindSSW 23 mphgusts 30 mph
• Radar over this pointno reading
• Humidity71%
• Dew point68°
• Pressure—
• UV index—
• Air quality—
• Visibility10 mi
• Sunrise and sunsetSunrise · Sunset
• Moonrise9:51 PMMoonset 12:08 PM
• Moon phaseWaning gibbous82% lit

NOAA’s weighted blend of every model it runs, to eleven days, with the chances the grid above does not carry. Where the local office’s grid reaches, its figure sits beneath the blend’s; where it does not, the blend stands alone.

1. TodaySep 3084°59°NWS grid 84° / 65°rain 84%thunder 25%wind 23 mph · gusts 33 mph
2. ThuOct 178°55°NWS grid 79° / 54°rain 47%0.07 inwind 21 mph
3. FriOct 268°52°NWS grid 67° / 51°rain 35%wind 18 mph · gusts 25 mph
4. SatOct 374°54°NWS grid 73° / 54°rain 3%wind 6 mph
5. SunOct 477°54°NWS grid 78° / 55°rain 5%wind 9 mph · gusts 15 mph
6. MonOct 578°56°NWS grid 79° / 56°rain 4%wind 8 mph · gusts 14 mph
7. TueOct 683°61°NWS grid 81° / 58°rain 14%thunder 16%0.01 inwind 15 mph · gusts 22 mph
8. WedOct 786°62°NWS grid 82° / 60°rain 13%thunder 15%0.02 inwind 10 mph
9. ThuOct 885°60°Beyond the NWS gridrain 5%wind 7 mph
10. FriOct 984°59°Beyond the NWS gridrain 3%wind 8 mph · gusts 14 mph
11. SatOct 1084°57°Beyond the NWS gridrain 3%wind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph

Each line is one model’s own forecast at its own grid cell: three kilometers for HRRR, a quarter of a degree for the global models, which can sit a few hundred meters above or below the town. Where they agree the forecast is settled; where they part is where it is not.

NWS gridBlendHRRRGFSGEFS ± spreadECMWFECMWF AI

A ~ marks a high or low read from six-hourly steps, which miss the true extreme by a degree or two.

ECMWF ensemble meteogram

10 daysTemperature plume

No forecast has skill day by day past about two weeks, and this page does not print one. Where the models stop, the calendar takes over: the 1991 to 2020 normal for each date, the record high and low ever set on it, and where the Climate Prediction Center leans warm, cool, wet or dry over the coming weeks, the month and the season. A site that shows a high for a date three months out is showing you this normal with a wobble.

The forecast reaches Thu Oct 15, from the NWS grid, then the National Blend, then the mean of the global models. Beyond it the lines are the calendar.

Forecast high and lowNormal high and lowRecord high and lowCPC leans warmer than normalCPC near normal or equal chances

None of these is a measurement. Each is a rating of the forecast ahead, and of what is happening at the point right now, against what the activity or the ailment is known to mind, and each names the figure that decided it. An ailment or a pest is rated as a risk, low to extreme; an activity, a chore or a journey as a condition, poor to ideal.

Each rating says which span it is for: the rest of today’s daylight, tonight, or the next 24 hours.

Tonight has no dark, clear hour without a bright moon in this forecast. Rated fair.

Dark is the sun 18 degrees below the horizon; where it never gets that low, 12 degrees, marked nautical. Clear is sky cover of 20% or less. A bright moon is one above the horizon with a quarter or more of its disc lit. Transparency in the table is estimated from surface humidity (70% and 85% mark fair and poor) and visibility, since the forecast carries no haze or high cloud moisture. Seeing and transparency by hour, where shown, are Environment and Climate Change Canada’s astronomy forecast (regional model; seeing from cloud, wind shear, turbulence near the ground and the surface temperature trend; transparency from the moisture through the whole air column), under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Dew is the air within 2 °C of its dew point. Excellent is four or more clear moonless hours with good transparency; good is three; fair is one, or two clear hours.

Golden hour is the sun between 6 degrees above the horizon and 4 degrees below it; blue hour is the sun between 4 and 6 degrees below. These are the definitions timeanddate.com and PhotoPills use. Directions are degrees clockwise from true north, where the sun’s upper edge and the moon’s center cross a flat horizon; hills and buildings change both. None means the sun does not reach that height on the day; all day means it stays inside the band.

This hour: no-fly (wind at 400 ft near or over your limit, gusts near or over your limit, low cloud limits height (107.51), ground wind near or over your limit). Next good stretch: Sat 8 AM to 1 PM, 5 hours.

Today: civil twilight for Part 107 7:06 AM to sunrise 7:36 AM, and sunset 7:27 PM to 7:57 PM. Anti-collision lighting is required in those minutes and at night.

Good Caution No-fly

Flight restrictions nearby

Reading the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.

Flight restrictions on the map. TFRs are not the whole picture: controlled airspace around airports needs LAANC authorization. Check the FAA’s B4UFLY.

Wind at 400 ft is estimated from the 10 m forecast by the power law, with exponents for each Pasquill stability class (Irwin 1979, rural, as in EPA dispersion models; the class from wind, sun height and cloud, after Turner 1970); gusts keep the ground gust’s margin. Caution from three quarters of your limit; the default 24 mph is the wind resistance printed for common sub-250 g drones. 14 CFR 107.51: “The minimum flight visibility, as observed from the location of the control station must be no less than 3 statute miles” and at least “500 feet below the cloud”. 14 CFR 107.29: “No person may operate a small unmanned aircraft system during periods of civil twilight unless the small unmanned aircraft has lighted anti-collision lighting visible for at least 3 statute miles”; civil twilight is the 30 minutes before sunrise and after sunset, in Alaska the Air Almanac’s. Kp: SWPC’s scales say satellite navigation problems may occur at G3 (Kp 7) and navigation is “degraded for hours” at G4 (Kp 8); Kp 5 is the typical app warning. Typical limits, not rules: rain chance 30% caution and 60% no-fly, thunder 10% and 20%, below 0 °C caution and −10 °C no-fly, over 40 °C caution. Your drone’s manual and the airspace come first.

Hours fit for spraying, and the days dry enough for fieldwork and hay, read from this forecast’s wind, gusts, humidity, temperature and rain.

Spraying windows

• Thu 12 AM to 2 AM 2 hours, every hour within the rules
• Fri 10 PM to Sat 2 AM 4 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sat 10 AM to 10 PM 12 hours, every hour within the rules
• Sun 11 AM to 11 PM 12 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C
• Mon 11 AM to Tue 2 AM 15 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C
• Wed 11 AM to 4 PM 5 hours, some with delta T between 8 and 10 °C

Good Marginal No

Field days

Spraying: sustained wind 3 to 10 mph, the range US extension services and most labels give; gusts no more than 15 mph (this page’s limit); delta T (air minus wet-bulb temperature) 2 to 8 °C preferred and 8 to 10 °C marginal, from GRDC guidance, with the wet bulb by Stull’s formula; no hour at a 30% chance of rain or 0.25 mm forecast during the rain-free time. Follow the product label, which overrides all of this. Field days: dry is no daytime hour at a 30% chance and under 1 mm all day, wet is 6 mm (0.25 in) or more; soil moisture is not in the forecast, so ground still wet from earlier rain is not accounted for. Hay drying marks a dry day with humidity down to 50% and a breeze of 5 mph or more.

The best-rated day this week is Thursday, rated fair.

Periods in bold fall within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The weather’s side is the fishing index

Major periods are two hours centered on the moon’s passage overhead and underfoot; minor periods are one hour centered on moonrise and moonset: the conventional durations of John Alden Knight’s solunar tables (1936). The rating is this site’s: one point to start, two more within a day and a half of a new or full moon (one more within three and a half days), and one more when a period falls within an hour of sunrise or sunset. The theory has mixed support in fisheries research; the times are exact astronomy.

1. This Afternoon84° · 9% · SSW 20–25 mph

   Mostly sunny, with a high near 84. South southwest wind 20 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

2. Tonight58° · 19% · SW 10–15 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers between 7pm and 1am. Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

3. Thursday79° · 21% · NNW 10–15 mph

   A slight chance of rain showers after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 79. North northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

4. Thursday Night54° · 42% · N 15–20 mph

   A chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 54. North wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

5. Friday67° · 42% · NNE 15–20 mph

   A chance of rain showers before 7am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 67. North northeast wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

6. Friday Night51° · 2% · NNE 5–15 mph

   Mostly cloudy, with a low around 51. North northeast wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

7. Saturday73° · 1% · ENE 5 mph

   Mostly sunny, with a high near 73. East northeast wind around 5 mph.

8. Saturday Night54° · S 0–5 mph

   Mostly clear, with a low around 54. South wind 0 to 5 mph.

9. Sunday78° · 4% · NNE 5–10 mph

   Sunny, with a high near 78. North northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

10. Sunday Night55° · 4% · E 5 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 55.

11. Monday79° · 4% · ESE 5–10 mph

    Sunny, with a high near 79.

12. Monday Night56° · 2% · SSE 10 mph

    Mostly clear, with a low around 56.

13. Tuesday81° · 15% · S 10–15 mph

    A slight chance of rain showers after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

14. Tuesday Night58° · 27% · S 10–15 mph

    A chance of rain showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 58.

Written by the forecaster on duty for their own colleagues and for anyone who wants to know why the forecast says what it says. It is not edited for the public, so it uses the office’s shorthand; it is also the most honest thing any weather service publishes.

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Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
1254 PM CDT Tue Sep 29 2026

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1254 PM CDT Tue Sep 29 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight.

Scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected
today into tonight. The main threat will be torrential rainfall 
with a potential for flooding and flash flooding. Isolated severe 
storms with damaging winds and maybe a short lived tornado or two 
cannot be ruled out.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Thunderstorm activity may continue into Wednesday with a continued
flood threat. Isolated severe storms cannot be ruled out in the 
eastern Panhandles Wednesday afternoon. 

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time.

$$

The national centers each publish a judgment the local grid does not carry. Read here at this exact coordinate.

The last spring freeze (32°F) usually comes around April 16 and the first fall freeze around October 26: a growing season of about 192 days.

One fall in ten brings a freeze by October 12; one spring in ten still has one after May 1.

Climate of 35.63, -100.55: normals, records and every month

The forecast office edits about sixty fields for every cell of its grid. The common ones are above; these are the rest, as the daily extreme, for anyone who needs the mixing height, the fire danger or the swell.

Each forecast day against the same calendar date at the nearest long-record station: the 1991 to 2020 normal, and the record high and low with the year they were set.