Weather
Lubbock: Where Your Paycheck is Fat, but Your Soul is Flat
Oh, joy. Another “study” has come out to tell us what we already feel every time we look at a horizon that hasn’t changed since…
Congrats, West Texas: We Finally Realized Infrastructure Actually Matters
Two years after the Smokehouse Creek Fire turned a million acres into a charcoal briquette,…
Dust, Fire, and Zero Water: Lubbock Completes the ‘Old Testament’ Bingo Card
In case you haven’t stepped outside and immediately had your retinas sandblasted, the U.S. Drought…
The Brick Trailer Park: An Autopsy of the Hub City’s Soul
If you have ever driven down Slide Road at 5:15 PM, dodging a lifted Ford…
Landlord Forgets to Pay the Bill, City Tries to Freeze Residents for ‘Legal Reasons’
In a shocking twist that surprised absolutely no one familiar with North Lubbock real estate,…
ERCOT Says “Relax,” Lubbock Remembers 2021 and Side-Eyes the Thermostat
A big cold snap is rolling into West Texas this weekend, and state officials are…
Ice, Ice, Sprinkler: How Lubbock Turns a Cold Snap into a Contact Sport
Lubbock officials are begging—again—for residents to stop running sprinklers during freezing weather, because spraying water…
Second-Hottest Year Ever, Christmas at 86°, and Eight Tornadoes for Flavor: Lubbock’s 2025 Weather Was Totally Normal, Probably
According to the National Weather Service, 2025 was the second-warmest year ever recorded in Lubbock,…
Anthrax Is Back, Y’all: Briscoe County Rings in 2026 With a Quarantine and a Dead Steer
Just when you thought the Panhandle couldn’t get more festive, regulators confirmed anthrax in a…
Lubbock Checks the Weather Records, Confirms: Christmas Still Mostly Dirt-Colored
Every year, the National Weather Service dutifully reminds Lubbock of something residents already know deep…