Amarillo, TX 79168 Weather

Potter County2:20 AM CDT35.40°N, 101.90°W

Current conditions

Clear
57°
Clear
Feels like 57°
High 82°·Low 56° tonight
WindS 13 mph
Humidity82%
Dew point52°
Pressure30.22 inHg
Visibility10 mi
Cloud cover10%
UV index0 Low
Sunrise8:00 AM
Sunset7:06 PM

Observed at Amarillo, Amarillo International Airport · 30 min ago

Forecast

10-day

  • Overnight

    Mostly clear, with a low around 56. South wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

  • Wednesday

    Sunny, with a high near 82. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph.

  • Wednesday Night

    Partly cloudy, with a low around 59. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

National Weather Service forecast updated 1 hr ago.

Hourly

Hourly forecast
  1. Now Mostly Clear 63°
  2. 3 AM Mostly Clear 62°
  3. 4 AM Clear 59°
  4. 5 AM Mostly Clear 58°
  5. 6 AM Sunny 57°
  6. 7 AM Sunny 57°
  7. 8 AM Sunny 56°
  8. 9 AM Sunny 58°
  9. 10 AM Sunny 64°
  10. 11 AM Sunny 68°
  11. 12 PM Sunny 72°
  12. 1 PM Sunny 76°
  13. 2 PM Sunny 79°
  14. 3 PM Sunny 80°
  15. 4 PM Sunny 81°
  16. 5 PM Sunny 82°
  17. 6 PM Mostly Clear 80°
  18. 7 PM Mostly Clear 77°
  19. 8 PM Partly Cloudy 75°
  20. 9 PM Mostly Cloudy 70°
  21. 10 PM Mostly Cloudy 68°
  22. 11 PM Mostly Cloudy 67°
  23. Thu12 AM Mostly Cloudy 66°
  24. 1 AM Mostly Cloudy 65°

10-day forecast

Details
  1. TonightOct 20 Mostly Clear Mostly Clear56°
  2. TodayOct 21 Sunny Sunny59°82°
  3. ThuOct 22 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny58°81°
  4. FriOct 23 Partly Sunny Partly Sunny33%57°76°
  5. SatOct 24 Rain Showers Likely Rain Showers Likely71%55°69°
  6. SunOct 25 Showers And Thunderstorms Likely Showers And Thunderstorms Likely71%52°63°
  7. MonOct 26 Chance Rain Showers Chance Rain Showers53%49°62°
  8. TueOct 27 Chance Rain Showers Chance Rain Showers36%62°
  9. WedOct 28 Sunny Sunny36°58°
  10. ThuOct 29 Sunny Sunny40°69°

Days after the National Weather Service's seven are MET Norway's outlook, a computer model with no forecaster's review.

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Air quality

35
Good
Ozone

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Forecast

  • WedModerate
  • ThuGood
  • FriGood

Amarillo, TX reporting area · 1 hr ago. Data from AirNow (EPA and its state, local and tribal partners); preliminary and subject to change.

Sun & moon

Sunrise 8:00 AM
Sunset 7:06 PM
Daylight 11 h 6 min (−2 min 6 s tomorrow)
Waxing Gibbous · 75% lit
Moonrise 4:36 PM Moonset 3:16 AM
Full moon Oct 26 New moon Nov 9

Almanac

Monthly
Normal high / low71° / 43°
Record high91° (2023)
Record low29° (1990)
Wettest1.08 in (2015)
Month to date0.52 in (normal 1.27 in)

Amarillo Ap, records since 1941. Normals 1991–2020. Data from NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS).

Nearby

Forecasters' discussion

From the National Weather Service office in AMA, issued 2 hrs ago

Key Messages

Issued at 1153 PM CDT Tue Oct 20 2026

- Above average temperatures expected today and tomorrow.

- Watching for a potential system to bring rain, potentially some heavy rain, to the combined Panhandles this coming weekend. Along with cooler temperatures.

Short Term

(Tonight through Thursday night) Issued at 1153 PM CDT Tue Oct 20 2026

Upper level ridging is expected to build aloft today and tomorrow. Leading to afternoon highs well above average in the upper 70s to lower 80s. For today, surface winds are expected to drop off and become relatively light, less than 10 mph, under a weak surface low. This feature may cause some variability in the wind directions as well. Tomorrow, however, the surface pressure gradient will reorganize to give breezy and gusty southerly winds as the next upper level system sets up over the west coast.

Long Term

(Friday through next Tuesday) Issued at 1153 PM CDT Tue Oct 20 2026

Going into Friday, the combined Panhandles are progged to fall under southwest flow aloft with the next upper level trough deepening over the Intermountain West down into the southern tips of CA/NV. The southwest flow is expected to increase the cloud cover limiting daytime highs a few degrees into the mid to upper 70s for Fri. PoPs are expected to start to increase from west to east overnight Fri night as plenty of Pacific moisture gets carried up in the southwest flow. PWATs are expected to begin increasing Fri night to around an inch on Sat, maybe even slightly higher. Models have the system slowing down, and mainly confining PoPs to the central to western combined Panhandles Fri night into Sat, eventually spreading likely PoPs to include the eastern Panhandles Sat night into Sun night. There is a bit of uncertainty to the timing of when the system will enter and exit the combined Panhandles. Which will impact the overall potential for rain amounts. Guidance is pointing to a potential excessive rainfall event at this time. In fact, WPC currently has the central to western parts of the combined Panhandles under a 15% chance for rainfall to exceed flash flood guidance Sat into Sat night. With the eastern Panhandles under a 5% probability within 25 mile of a given point. At this time wide spread severe storms are not anticipated at this time.

Temperatures will be on a downward trend this weekend with widespread lower 60s for an afternoon high Sun into Mon. These temperatures are looking to be kept cool due to the rain and cloud cover, more so than any actual CAA behind a front. Winds are looking to shift behind a front on Monday, however, temperatures are not looking to be much different than Sun ahead of the front.

Aviation

(06Z TAFS) Issued at 1153 PM CDT Tue Oct 20 2026

VFR conditions are expected to prevail with southerly winds slightly above 10 kts decreasing to slightly below 10 kts and potentially gaining a more westerly component.

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