Mesonet Ticker for July 18, 2025

                
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Party on, Summer




I'm back (I'm also front, but that's another story for another time)! Fresh off a
week of vacation where I left a sorta hot, sorta wet Oklahoma, to a very hot, very
wet Florida. We dodged severe storms on our way outta OKC, and dodged a tropical
wave leaving Florida.

And what do I come back to? More of the Florida weather I just left, just with
not as much rain, and just in time for the heat to finally settle in for a spell.







Heck, even though it's raining right now, for crying out loud,



from here on out, it looks like classic Ring of Fire territory, with the dreaded
summer heat dome dominating our weather.



In other words, BORING. That's okay, summer is supposed to be boring. And hot.
And summery.

Hey, know what's not boring? The birth of yet another Oklahoma Mesonet site!
Well, it's a new site for sure, but it's actually a replacement site for our
Mt. Herman site, which we had to decommission due to a sale of the land it
sat on. Upon? Whatever works there, the new location is 2.66 miles south-
southwest of Smithville, Oklahoma, and it's 12.6 miles northeast of the former
Mt Herman Mesonet station.

It's already on our maps, and producing observations!



70? Well, that's kind of boring.

We bid a fond farewell to Mt Herman, which was commissioned on Jan. 1, 1994, all
the way through it's last observations on Dec. 10, 2024. Along the way it
reported approximately 3,261,024 five-minute intervals of data, with a maximum
air temperature of 110 degrees (in 2011, of course) and a minimum of -11
degrees (in February 2021, of course).





We trust Smithville (SMIT) will carry on your legacy for many decades to come.
Here are the first 3 days of that journey.



Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climate Survey
gmcmanus@mesonet.org


                

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