Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Amarillo, TX
Issued by NWS Amarillo, TX
205 FXUS64 KAMA 101740 AFDAMA Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Amarillo TX 1140 AM CST Mon Nov 10 2025 ...New KEY MESSAGES, SHORT TERM, LONG TERM, AVIATION... .KEY MESSAGES... Issued at 1100 AM CST Mon Nov 10 2025 - Above average temperatures and at times breezy conditions are forecasted this new week. - A weather system for the weekend brings cooler conditions and low chances for precipitation. && .SHORT TERM... (This afternoon through Tuesday night) Issued at 1100 AM CST Mon Nov 10 2025 A ridge of higher pressure is actively building across the southern plains with only a slight interruption on Tuesday from a small upper level weather system. This will cause the panhandles to see warming temperatures for both today and Tuesday. The small weather system on Tuesday has a high chance of pushing a weak cold front across the panhandles during the afternoon hours of Tuesday. It will take some time for the slightly cooler air associated with this front to arrive which will delay the cooldown to Wednesday. Only a small amount of upper level moisture is moving across the panhandles during this time leading to sunny or mostly sunny skies. && .LONG TERM... (Wednesday through next Sunday) Issued at 1100 AM CST Mon Nov 10 2025 The ridge of high pressure and associated warm and dry conditions has a very high chance of remaining in place through Friday. Then come this weekend there is a high chance that a weather system will eject out of the desert southwest into the southern plains. This system will bring about a change in the weather for the panhandles during the weekend. The most likely impact is a drop in the temperatures that would persist into next week. All other impacts will be heavily influenced by the trajectory that this weather system takes as it passes across the southern plains. The current most likely trajectory would take this system to the south of the panhandles swinging across central Texas. This trajectory would most likely keep moisture associated with this system to the south and east of the panhandles. This means that the panhandles would either stay dry or see minimal amounts of precipitation. The second most likely trajectory would take this system a bit more northward passing south of the panhandles before moving into OK proper. Such a trajectory would be more favorable to bring moisture to the panhandles leading to more widespread precipitation and amount of precipitation. A smaller subset of this solution has an even more favorable trajectory bringing in the full moisture fetch to the panhandles. This would cause far higher amounts of precipitation, but this is very much the outlier and is currently not considered with the forecast. As it currently stands the forecast reflects a low chance for light precipitation for this weekend. This aligns with the drier solutions with only a small amount of moisture being able to pass across the panhandles. Just be aware that this will change as the path of the weather system and associated moisture becomes more established through this work week. && .AVIATION... (18Z TAFS) Issued at 1100 AM CST Mon Nov 10 2025 VFR conditions at all terminals and across the panhandles for the next 24 hours. Tonight a low level jet will set up across the western panhandles creating some speed shear at all terminals. The intensity of this speed shear is not high enough to fully qualify as LLWS and thus is not included within the TAFs. && .AMA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...None. OK...None. && $$ SHORT TERM...98 LONG TERM....98 AVIATION...98