Mesonet Ticker for April 16, 2026

                
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Halfsies




People say I'm dangerous-and sometimes exotic-because I pronounce the "l" if
"half," but people that pronounce the first "d" in "Wednesday?" Forget it.

Now halfway through spring, how you doing? Have you gotten enough rain? Have you
gotten ANY rain? Are you in the GOOD colors on these maps, or the BAD?





Pretty easy to see that I-44 is once again acting as an quasi-boundary between
the haves and haves-nots (have-nots for the less dangerous and exotic amongst
you, but still better than half-knots). I'm feeling a bit quasi at the moment.
And we're still looking at the same U.S. Drought Monitor map from last week, but
it's already dated (aren't we all?) due to the 7 a.m. Tuesday-to-Tuesday cutoff
points. So any rain that has fallen since Tuesday at 7 a.m., and there's been a
lot of it to the south and east, will count for next week's map.



We do have a chance to add to those totals tomorrow, most across northern OK.



But also more severe weather reports tomorrow afternoon through the overnight
hours into Saturday.









No foolin', NW OK needs some rain. They'll take HALF of what SE OK has gotten,
and you can pronounce that anyway you want.

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

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