Mesonet Ticker for July 27, 2026

                
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Brrrr?




When I was a kid (some would say "what are ya now??"), Saturday was always the
best day of the week. Cartoons, a good bowl of Frank Berry or Boo Berry cereal,
riding bikes out to the creek and fishing...you know, all the best stuff you
could do. Friday was good because you could look forward to Saturday. Sunday was
blah because school the next day, plus you were forced to watch "Little House on
the Prairie."

Nellie Olson was the Monday of TV characters.

For this week, Saturday will be the first "cool" day we will have had after a good
8-10 days of punishing heat. Oh, and you will be punished.







Heck, today might be the hottest day of the summer thus far, at least on the
thermometer, for crying out loud! Maybe not with the heat index, but that won't
be a picnic either with widespread values of 105-115 in the offing.



Hopefully we're all better acclimated by now, but if you aren't careful, YOU'LL
be in the offing.

Still not much rain in the forecast, at least for the the next seven days, and
that might be the story for another couple of weeks if we aren't careful.





Can you say "flash drought?" Should you?

Time will tell.

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

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