Mesonet Ticker for October 27, 2025

                
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Fading away




Things have a habit of just fading away, with slow changes causing what was once
normal to become fragments of memory, lost like stardust waiting to be stirred
once again by melancholic nostalgia (Hey, Melancholic Nostalgia was my band's
name in my Hands Across America club!).

YEEEEIIIIIKES! You're bringing me down, man! What I'm getting at is our lovely
extended second summer has faded away, not to be seen again until March, when it
will be early first summer.



Ever since that second week of September, we've seen MOSTLY warmer than normal
weather here in Oklahoma, bumped downward here and there by wayward cold fronts.
But the cold weather was always pushed back to the north and east, allowing us
to bask in 80s (and even a few 90s).

'Twas glorious, no? Well, that's probably over, and our first somewhat widespread
frost/freeze is staring us in the face. Now oviously (sorry, I'm saving b's...but
not bs) we've already had some freezing weather in the last week in the Panhandle.



This one is gonna be a bit more serious and widespread, however, with a hard
freeze in the Panhandle both Wednesday AND Thursday, and of course getting
down to at least 32 appears likely for the western fifth or so of the state.
Areas to the east will see a chance of frost, of maybe even a wayward freeze
in those low-lying areas.

So if you have friends in low places, let 'em know (but tell them to lay off
the whiskey and beer...Garth says so).

Here's what our NWS friends have to say about the upcoming cold weather.







The cold front that brought this weather change of scenery also brought some
much-promised rain. In some cases...too much rain, and in other cases not
nearly enough.



We did manage to *mostly* reset this map, however.



We will see rain chances over the next few days as well, with a strong cold
front scheduled for tomorrow.





Not enough, however, and nothing for those harder-hit areas in western OK.



There are more freezes coming. REAL freezes. So we'll just laugh at this one,
because I'll be crying frozen tears when the real ones get here.

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

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