Mesonet Ticker for July 13, 2026

                
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Mad rain




Chances are (Johnny Mathis, right?) you've gotten some rain over the last week,
whether it be 0.17 inches or 2.17 inches, or more likely somewhere in between.
Sure, a few unlucky souls have missed out completely (we see you, Grandfield and
others), but the summer rains have been active over that time frame, and to put it
mildly, it's a bit gross, amirite? I once called it "rain acne," or "raincne."

It's famously how summer thunderstorms -- aka "pulse" thunderstorms -- work with
very little upper air support. They go up due to the heat of the summer sun, with
no steering winds they don't move much, rain themselves out, and then die.
Sometimes you can get lucky with a weak cold front moving through that will
create something of a squall line, but most times you're dealing with outflow
boundaries. At any rate, it does make for an ugly rainfall map.

ANY rain helps to fill in those holes, but we still have quite a blot of deficits
from west-central to central Oklahoma.





Hey, it's better than July 2011! And we'll continue with a mild rest of the
week until temps start to climb once again towards the weekend.





Hey, it's better than July 1980! Or 1996, or 1998, or 2001...well, you get
the picture. In case you don't...here's THE picture.



Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climate Survey
gmcmanus@ou.edu
                

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