<p>I am interested in applying to Texas Tech, but I have heard that the weather is pretty bad out there in Lubbock (dust storms, snowing, and flooding). Is this true? If it is, how bad is it?</p>
<p>It's flat and the wind picks up plenty of dust.</p>
<p>It gets a bit colder than in Dallas but in the big scheme of things isn't much colder. Lubbock gets tornados. Also, i've seen the sky turn brown/orange due to dust, but dust storms only happen from time to time.</p>
<p>I live in the Dallas area, but my son is a recent Tech graduate. To add to Vector Wega's weather comments, as Lubbock is in a semi-arid climate it is sunny or at most partly cloudy most of the year. However, the wind whips across the plains frequently. My son would occasionaly call us as he was walking between classes and I could sometimes not understand him as the wind was whistling by. Also, semi-arid means relatively low humidity so that's a good thing. As you may know, Lubbock is on a fertile plain (the Llano Estacado) with lots of irrigated cotton fields for miles around (i.e., no cactus or rocky soil that one might expect in a semi-arid area). This was a "pleasant surprise" to me. </p>
<p>If you have not been, please visit the vast Tech campus. It is very impressive. As the largest city in 125 miles, Lubbock itself has a lot more things going for it than a city of 200,000 normally would. A decent size airport with lots of Southwest flights; a couple large medical centers (including Tech's med school); more restaurants per capita than any city of comparable size in the country (all those Tech students to appease); lots of shopping focused around "the mall" in the southwest part of the city, etc. Lubbock is obviously no Austin, but it sure beats Waco and most other mid-sized Texas cities in terms of amenities.</p>