Mesonet Ticker for April 2, 2026

                
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BEFOREIGETSTARTEDIJUSTWANTEDTOSAYHECKITSRAININGRIGHTNOWFORCRYINGOUTLOUDBEFORETHE
RAINISGONE!!



There, I said it. And I know a lot of folks got left out (I see you, NW OK!), but
I know we all want to celebrate the rest of us that DID get some good rain. And
on top of that, there was very little in the way of severe weather. The day ended
up, at least as far as I can tell, as sort of an ordinary Oklahoma severe weather
day. Some wind, some hail, and lots of rain in places. Enough so that we're
starting to reset some of these ugly maps (hey, "Reset These Ugly Maps" was my
second band's hit single back at the Naval Academy!).





But fret not (okay, feel free to fret), because we have another storm coming in
Friday that will bring the state more rain. Those in NW OK get left out again,
it appears (hence the fretting).



All this comes in the Greg of time (I talked to Nick, he said he's over the
whole "time" deal) as we just had a major expansion of drought once again
across the state. Now remember the US Drought Monitor runs on a Tuesday a.m.-to-
Tuesday a.m. time frame, so any rains that fell after Tuesday of this week will
be reflected on next week's map.



I actually requested an expansion of D4 across SW into central OK where I felt
the conditions had escalated to that highest intensity level due to the record
heat over the last 9 months to go along with the dry weather, but that was
denied so we'll hope for rainfall instead.

Don't worry, even in NW OK, spring will live to fight another day.



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

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