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Heat Advisory issued June 10 at 2:58AM CDT until June 10 at 9:00PM CDT by NWS Amarillo TX

Texas; Sherman; Hansford; Ochiltree; Lipscomb; Moore; Hutchinson; Roberts; Hemphill; Potter; Carson; Gray; Wheeler; Randall; Armstrong; Donley; Collingsworth

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* WHAT...Heat index values up to 101 expected. * WHERE...Portions of the Panhandle of Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas. * WHEN...From 1 PM this afternoon to 9 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.

Instruction

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

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Panhandle plains · Texas

Weather field guide

Amarillo

The night opening around the high plains.

The visual day has gone quiet; temperature, wind, insects, and edge movement become the living signals.

72°

clear

High: 100°
Low: 70°
Feels: 70°
Last updated: Updated 4:30 AM

Today's field briefHeat load

Use the 7a–8a window.

5a is the cleanest weather window. Heat builds toward 100°; protect the morning and shade. Watch temperature, insects, and edge movement more than color or distant views.

Best outside

72° with 0% rain risk

Weather risk

Heat load

Heat builds toward 100°; protect the morning and shade.

Nature cue

After-dark signal

Watch temperature, insects, and edge movement more than color or distant views.

Do first

Photography

100

7a–8a

The next 24high plains

Ten daysfar horizon

Ten small weather plates: rain signal, sky language, and the temperature span the landscape will move through.

Today
Jun 10
Clear
100°18% rain
70° low

The indexfield-journal

UV index0Lowsundial

In the area

Life nearby

Panhandle plains

Night ecology

After dark, the weather matters less like a forecast and more like a veil. Mammals and insects become the likely actors nearby.

high plainsfar horizonwind shelfgrass linewide horizonnight glasslow light

Regional iNaturalist observations within roughly 50 km. Exact wildlife locations are intentionally not shown.

About Amarillo

“Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo and Canyon.”

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Rotating field galleryLandscape · animals · plants

Plants
Silverleaf Nightshade
iNaturalist regional observations

Plants
Tahoka Daisy
iNaturalist regional observations

Wildlife coming up

Mule Deer

Odocoileus hemionus

iNaturalist regional observations

Animal field note

Mule Deer keeps its own schedule.

Mammals tend to shift around heat, rain, and human noise, turning dawn, dusk, shade, and cover into the real local calendar.

Regional iNaturalist observations within roughly 50 km; exact public wildlife locations are not shown. Field-note copy is curated from taxon group, current weather, and regional observation context.

Also nearby

Northern Cardinal

Mammals & bears

fur + tracks

Mule Deer
Odocoileus hemionus
iNaturalist regional observations
179 obs in the regional sample
White-tailed Deer
Odocoileus virginianus
iNaturalist regional observations
172 obs in the regional sample
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Cynomys ludovicianus
iNaturalist regional observations

Opening the weather.

Amarillo

Use the 7a–8a window.

Photography

Night ecology

Mule Deer

Walking

Running

What the weather is doing now.

Photography

Night ecology

Mule Deer