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MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... September 21, 2017 September 21, 2017 September 21, 2017 September 21, 2017 Mighty Rain http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/Mighty.Rain.png That 7-day rain forecast is gonna be suhhhh-weet! if it comes true. It's probably a bit ambitious, but with drought and dry conditions persisting and even spreading into the state from the north and southeast, it will be much needed. Check out today's new U.S. Drought Monitor report for Oklahoma, as well as for the surrounding region. http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/20170919_OK_trd.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/20170919_conus_trd.png So still nothing *too bad* in our area, just a spot of moderate drought up in Harper and Beaver counties, but that abnormally dry condition continues to spread down from Kansas and up and over from the ArkLaTex region. The dryness in our state is quite evident from the Mesonet rainfall maps, DESPITE the recent rains. The totals look nice, but when compared to normal, not so nice. http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/30day-rain-totals.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/30days.norm_pct.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/30days.norm_dep.png That dryness is beginning to impact those planting wheat as well, as both the topsoil and subsoil moisture wicks away. http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/4inch-plant.avail.water.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/32inch-plant.avail.water.png That's where our latest rain forecast comes in, with changes on the way starting late in the weekend. A large upper-level trough will move east from the Western U.S. and split off, leaving the Southern Plains with a lovely cut-off low remaining out west. All that together means an express elevator to fall, for next week with lots of rain and cooler weather. Check out the 7-day temp forecast from our friends at the Norman NWS office, for instance. http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/nws-norman-7day-temps.png UNTIL THEN, however, summer will remain in place with a vengeance, complete with fire danger and lots of suffocating heat. We will be close to triple-digits in some places today...will it be the last of the 100s if so? http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/nws-tulsa-heat.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20170921/todays-forecast-highs.png The mouse may roar...you just have to wait a bit. Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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