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Droughtlessness




Oh, I know what you're thinking, and no, I'm NOT related to Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise,
or Timothy Chamal...Chalmal...that guy from "Dune."

But also, why is there still so much (even though it's little) drought up in
northwestern Oklahoma after all that rain this week? Well, as we've mentioned
before, the only rainfall we're allowed to look at for each week's Drought Monitor
is from 7 a.m. the previous Tuesday to the current week's 7 a.m. Tuesday. So
while this is what we see over the last few days:



this is the actual rainfall we're allowed to consider:



Ya get me? That's okay, few people do, and that's to their benefit. So watch for
next week's Drought Monitor map for more improvements thanks to the rain from
AFTER 7 a.m. Tuesday. Just look at the improvements we've seen since Mother
Nature opened the spigot wide starting in April.



The rainfall is largely over for Oklahoma for awhile. We'll have some
scattered showers here and there today, but mostly "there" in northern OK, as
you can see in the 7-day forecast. And that's a good thing for most. We
now need to let some heat set in and evaporate a bit of this surface water and
turn the state a robust green.







We'll take nice...for now!

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

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