LUBBOCK, TX — Parts of West Texas could experience their first freeze of the season early Saturday, Oct. 17, as a sharp autumn cooldown sends temperatures tumbling across the South Plains and southern Texas Panhandle before warmer weather returns early next week.
According to the National Weather Service in Lubbock, the greatest potential for subfreezing temperatures will be across the far southwestern Texas Panhandle and northern South Plains.
The agency’s Hazardous Weather Outlook, issued Tuesday, Oct. 13, specifically identifies the possibility of the season’s first freeze Saturday morning, following several rounds of heavy rainfall and thunderstorms earlier in the week…