Marathon Faces Unprecedented Weather Shift As severe weather continued to batter the Great Plains on Thursday, residents of Marathon, Texas, experienced an astonishing temperature drop on Wednesday, accompanied by an unusual amount of hail, requiring the deployment of snow plows to clear the streets. The temperature in Marathon plummeted over 50 degrees, dropping from … [Read more...] about Texas town deploys snow plows after 50-degree temperature swing and 2 feet of hail