Editing Panhandle hook (section)

[[Image:Panhandle hook.png|right|thumb|200px|A common track of a Panhandle Hook winter storm as it curves from Texas, northeastward towards the Great Lakes region.]]  A '''panhandle hook''' (also called a '''pan handle hook'''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weather.gov/jetstream/glossary_p |title=Jet Stream - Weather Glossary: P's |website=National Weather Service |access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref> or '''Texas hooker'''<ref name=Slate>{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/19/texas_hooker_storm_to_bring_midwest_blizzard_tornadoes_at_the_same_time.html |title="Texas Hooker" to Bring Midwest Blizzard, Tornadoes at the Same Time |last=Holthaus |first=Eric |date=19 February 2014 |website=Slate |access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref>) is a relatively infrequent winter [[Low pressure area|storm system]] whose [[cyclogenesis]] occurs in the South to [[southwestern United States]] from the late [[autumn|fall]] through [[winter]] and into the early [[Spring (season)|spring]] months. They trek to the northeast on a path towards the [[Great Lakes region (North America)|Great Lakes region]], as the southwesterly [[jet stream]]s are most prevalent, usually affecting the [[Midwestern United States]] and Eastern [[Canada]].  Panhandle hooks account for some of the most memorable and deadly [[blizzard]]s and  [[snowstorm]]s in [[North America]].<ref name=Slate></ref> The name is derived from the region of surface [[cyclogenesis]] in the [[Texas panhandle]] and [[Oklahoma panhandle]] regions. In some winters, there are no panhandle hook storms; in others, there are several.