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The Northern Plains' climate is semi-arid and is prone to drought, annually receiving between 16 and 32 inches (410 and 810 mm) of precipitation, and average annual snowfall ranging between 15 and 30 inches (380 and 760 mm), with the greatest snowfall amounts occurring in the Texas panhandle and areas near the border with New Mexico.
Summers are very hot and variably humid.Heat waves can be severe and prolonged, usually coinciding with severe drought. During the summer, the greater Dallas area receives warm to hot, dry airflow from Southwestern desert areas to the west and southwest, as well as hot, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico.
In the winter, for Texas, stronger El Nino conditions would mean above-average precipitation. El Nino conditions typically lead to wetter, snowier conditions in Texas. Show comments
Northeast Texas is a cultural and geographic region in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Texas.Geographically centered on two metropolitan areas strung along Interstate 20—Tyler in the west and Kilgore, Longview, Marshall to the east, [5] the areas of Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Sulphur Springs, Paris, and Texarkana in the north primarily along Interstate 30, and Jacksonville and ...
In 2015, a Nanjing University paper published in Scientific Reports analyzing climate classifications found that between 1950 and 2010, approximately 5.7% of all land area worldwide had moved from wetter and colder classifications to drier and hotter classifications. The authors also found that the change "cannot be explained as natural ...
Weston is a town in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 563 at the 2010 census, [6] and 283 at the 2020 census. [7] As of 2023, Collin County estimates Weston's population at 1,050.
The Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos metropolitan statistical area, or Greater Austin, is a five-county metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Texas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget. [4]
Andrews is the county seat of Andrews County in the Permian Basin of West Texas. [5] Andrews sits to the far southwest within the Texas Panhandle's plains, about 30 miles east of New Mexico. Andrews was incorporated on February 2, 1937. Both the city and county were named for Richard Andrews, the first Texan soldier to die in the Texas ...