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Big news! I don't know if I'm allowed to actually share this early, but I received
an e-mail letting me know I was selected to earn a free AAA Safety Kit! This is
quite the prize, and it's only for AAA members. Now the odd thing is I'm not an
(a?) AAA member. The other weird thing is it came from an e-mail address 32
letters long with nary an "AAA" in there.



Pretty sweet! Now my confidence in actually getting said safety kit if I hit the
the "claim prize" button is a bit lacking, but my confidence that somebody in
Russia would suddenly have all of my pertinent (is there any other kind??)
information is significantly higher, JUST AS my confidence in our supposed rain
chances for next week are significantly higher than they were just a couple of
days ago.

Where's my prize for the most clumsy segue attempt of 2026?

Anyway, don't take my word for it, take our fine weather compatriots at our
local NWS offices.







And you can see those rain chances going up next week in NWS Tulsa's 7-day.



I've also noticed that our media partners are starting to put out the word to
prepare for the possibility of severe weather next week, especially later next
week, so maybe update your severe weather plan for the upcoming severe weather
season, just in case. Clean out that storm shelter...you know those dead
crickets from last summer need vacuumed up.

Then come clean mine, I'll even give you a (an?) AAA Safety Kit, free of
charge! *(note, availability of safety kit is low confidence).

Here's something interesting.



And something else...our climatological winter (and February) ends on Saturday,
ushering in climatological spring. Check out these temperatures on Friday and
Saturday as we finish not only a very warm winter, but also one of our warmest
February's on record.





And then, just in time for spring, a cold front and down go the temps.



However, despite the rain, expect those temps to largely be above normal.



And THAT'S the surest sign of spring. The rain totals are still iffy, but we
could see 1-3 inches across several areas of the state. Keep in mind these
forecasts look like a blanket of uniform rainfall, but with the convective
nature of the possible storms, there'll be some hitting and missing, of course.



Hopefully lots of hitting, because of the missing we now have 91% of the state
in at last moderate (D1) drought, the most we've seen since Nov. 22, 2022!



Change that pattern!

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

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