Winter Storm Billy

Short Storm Summary
Winter Storm Billy was an ice storm in Lubbock, Texas that caused some moderate damage, due to some ice accumulations being up to 2 inches. Forecasted as early as October 19, 2020, ice starting on October 26, 2020, and the storm wasn't over until the morning of October 29, 2020

Before the Storm (October 19-25)
Weather forecasters forecasted this storm as early as October 19, 2020, forecasting light wintry showers for Lubbock, Texas on October 27-28, 2020. There were spotty showers on October 22nd, windy day and a freeze warning on October 23rd, first frost on October 24, and more spotty showers early on October 25, there were Winter Storm Warnings issued on October 25th.

Late October 25
During the last hours of October 25th, drizzle started falling while temperatures were falling throughout the mid-to-lower 30's

October 26
Around midnight, drizzle was still falling, temperatures dipped below freezing around 2 AM. This phenomenon caused freezing drizzle, everything continued to be icy. Around 5 AM, Thunderstorms started developing, causing thunder-freezing-rain! eventually they stopped around 7 AM, whereas it was just foggy from that point on. Then again, it started precipitating again around noon, it was sort of light... but everything was more icy, by this time trees were visibly weighed down by ice. Wintry Mix continued throughout the afternoon noon and evening.

October 27
Around 1 AM, thunderstorms started to form within the winter storm again, causing thundersleet that continued on for 4 hours... it eventually turned into more light freezing drizzle... but before noon, more wintry mix came, which was mainly heavy sleet. Throughout the afternoon, wintry was continuing on-and-off. until around 7 PM, when the third thunderstorm came around, which this time was all heavy freezing rain, this heavy freezing rain continued for 5 hours.

October 28
Shorty after midnight, the heavy freezing rain turned to light freezing drizzle, by this time trees and power lines were extremely weighed down by ice, they started breaking... around noon freezing drizzle stopped for good, then turned to light snow, which stopped around 3 PM, after that it was just cloudy as temperature were above freezing again. around 8 PM after the sun was set, light rain showers were pouring down. until before midnight around 11 PM. it started getting windy after that.

Early October 29
It was very windy early, gusts were recorded up to 50 mph. i remained sunny and much warmer for the rest of the day. all of the snow and ice melted quickly.

After The Storm (The rest of October)
many trees and power line were downed due to ice, many power outages and property damage was the result of this.