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Abbott one step away from second-straight state tournament
CLEBURNE, Texas (FOX 44) — The defending 1A State baseball champions are one series win away from another state tournament berth as the Panthers advanced to the Regional Final with a 7-0 win over Meridian on Saturday. Abbott faces Dodd City in the fourth round at a time and...
Ed Dwight, America's First Black Astronaut Candidate, Finally Goes to Space 60 Years Later
VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday. Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut...
Flooding causes closures at Lake Whitney parks
Heavy rainfall and flooding that began at the end of April and continued into May has resulted in the closure of some public access areas around Lake Whitney. Lake Whitney State Park officials announced Monday, May 6, that the park would temporarily close due to flooding. The park is expected...
A Few Storms & Muggy 5-16-2024
For more Permian Basin weather…check here on https://www.yourbasin.com/weather/forecast/. Clouds to start in eastern West Texas, as well as the mountains of The Trans Pecos, will give way to sunnier skies later today, but Meteorologist Ryan DePhillips expects below-normal high temperatures. As an upper-level low pressure system to the northwest continues to move eastward, the moisture will continue to move to the eastern parts of The Lone Star State with northwesterly drier winds to start. With some strong isolated thunderstorms quickly moving through this afternoon, temperatures will struggle to reach the 70’s, 80’s, and low 90’s as north-northeasterly winds will eventually develop. Clearer skies with chillier air tomorrow morning will lead to a warmer afternoon later on, but conditions will keep on drastically changing just in time for the weekend.
Central Texas farm loses fields of sunflowers ahead of summer festival
WEST, Texas (KWTX) - Western Belle Farm in West is known for its gorgeous sunflowers in the early summer months, but the recent downpours, hail and strong winds destroyed fields of flowers ahead of their annual summer festival. “We planted our sunflower fields in mid-March, and, then, we started to...
Few Storms with Dust 5-15-2024
For more Permian Basin weather…check here on https://www.yourbasin.com/weather/forecast/. Thunderstorms may be a bit more widespread across West Texas later today, but before then in the mid afternoon, Meteorologist Ryan DePhillips expects temperatures to soar into the 80’s, 90’s, and low triple digits for most, above normal for this time of year. An unstable atmospheric disturbance to the southwest, combining with an uptick in surface moisture from the southeast, will combine to produce the muggier conditions today. Southwesterly winds in far western areas of The Trans Pecos will keep conditions mostly dry, but south-southeasterly winds in eastern areas will keep conditions a bit muggier. Where those winds will collide will be where the storms will form, but conditions will be clearer from clouds and cooler tomorrow as a cold front arrives with northwesterly to northeasterly winds.
Triple-digit heat arrives earlier in West Texas compared to last year
The Permian Basin is in for some pretty hot temperatures this coming weekend and next week. Included in the forecast are several days where the highest temperature is expected to exceed 100 degrees. This means that the first 100-degree day will end up falling a bit earlier than the climatological...
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