The Panhandle has been reaching triple digits, caused by a low pressure system, leaving the area in the constant struggle of high heat, and very little rainfall.
After a cold front looks to cool us down on Tuesday, temperatures will continue to drop and chances of snow will rise going into Wednesday and Thursday.
We are tracking a winter weather event that will impact the area starting late tonight in our NW counties, then spreading into much of the area before daybreak tomorrow night and will last until Wednesday afternoon.
As the High Plains continue to have critically dry fuels along with high winds and high temperatures, the area is looking at elevated wildfire conditions for the remainder of the week, with the biggest concern being tomorrow.
Xcel Energy and the electric cooperatives in the Texas Panhandle, South Plains and eastern and southeastern New Mexico are setting up another possible round of controlled outages into the morning hours of Tuesday.
Xcel Energy and area electric co-ops are initiating controlled outages in order to protect the grid and maintain reliability during these extreme cold temperatures.
We are tracking another strong cold front and upper level system that will combine across our area tomorrow producing more snow and cold, blustery conditions.