COVID-19 and severe weather – both an historic freeze and a devastating summer storm – were considered the top local stories in 2021.Both made major headlines again in 2022, but it is the weather which the Lamesa Press-Reporter has deemed the major news here in 2022.Unlike the summer of 2021, when Lamesa saw five inches of rainfall in a single night, it was the lack of rain which severely impacted Dawson County this past year.During a 12-month period from August of 2021 until August 2022, only 3.6 inches of rainfall was recorded at the West Texas Mesonet automated weather station ...