{"id":103966,"date":"2025-12-29T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103966\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:06:12","slug":"blizzard-warning-issued-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/103966\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Warning issued in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/wccavzg95jw6xtqm.jpg\" alt=\"Sleet falls in Midland, Texas\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">MIDLAND, Texas &#8211; After record-breaking heat during Christmas across much of Texas, conditions have turned much colder during the final days of 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A cold front swept across the state over the weekend, knocking temperatures down to as much as 20 degrees below average in parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Radar from FOX Weather showed a band of snow and sleet stretching from near El Paso toward the Austin area Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Active_Radar_Southcentral.gif\"\/>The radar for the southern Plains showing wintry precipitation in Texas.<br \/>(FOX Weather)<br \/>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/maf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">National Weather Service office in Midland\/Odessa<\/a> issued a Winter Weather Advisory for much of West Texas, where forecasters warned of up to 3 inches of snow possible through Monday night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A Blizzard Warning was issued for the Guadalupe Mountains in Culberson County. According to the NWS, as much as 6 inches of snow is possible by Monday night with winds gusting as high as 50 mph. Those high winds will lead to low visibility and dangerous travel through Guadalupe Pass.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Texas Department of Transportation said in a Facebook post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/txdotep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">El Paso District\u2019s page<\/a> that crews in Pine Springs, which is included in the Blizzard Warning, reported a temperature of 25 degrees Monday morning and slippery roads.<\/p>\n<p>TxDOT works to treat roads in Culberson County, Texas, on Dec. 29, 2025, as winter weather impacts the region.  (TxDOT El Paso District\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>\n      From: FOX Local\n    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Crews have been treating with sand and salt and will continue to monitor roadway conditions,&#8221; TxDOT officials wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">As of late Monday morning, officials at the Culberson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said they have not received reports of major impacts from the weather.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The winter weather impacts should be short-lived. Conditions are forecast to improve by Tuesday, with sunshine returning and highs in the 50s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from FOX Weather, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Culberson County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/weather\/winter-weather\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDLAND, Texas &#8211; After record-breaking heat during Christmas across much of Texas, conditions have turned much colder during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,216,393,172,9181],"class_list":{"0":"post-103966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-tx","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-weather","14":"tag-winter-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}