Mesonet Ticker for October 23, 2026

                
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Boo who




Do you feel like an outcast (no, not Outkast...HEY YA!) from the people around
you through all this awesome weather because you still need rainfall? Do they
know that awesome weather is actually rain and lots of gray skies? Do they know
that you don't care if it rains on Halloween because replenishing those lakes
and ponds and also the soil moisture is more important than soggy popcorn balls?

Well we might have the forecast for you! The Panhandle and western Oklahoma are
gonna get soaked as early as TODAY and lasting through early next week.



But it will take a few more days to get that rain to spread to the east and
perhaps wet the rest of the state with some still much-needed rainfall.



Now as we all know all too well by now, that's NOT how the rainfall pattern is
gonna look like across the eastern two-thirds of the state for day 6-7 (kids,
your turn to tell the adults to google). What it is telling us is that they
possibility of significant rainfall will increase during that time frame. And
from my top graphic, it might last through the weekend.

And beyond.



So this is what it might resemble as we get out past next weekend (again, this
depiction is probably more precise than accurate...data scientists, hear you
roar).



So until you start getting rain, enjoy the awesome weather. Then, when it starts
raining, enjoy the awesome weather.

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

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