Mesonet Ticker for March 30, 2026

                
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Biting of the dust




Are you ready, hey are you ready for this, are you hanging on the edge of your
seat? Well scoot back before you fall (and isn't Fall looking pretty good right
now?), because we've already bit the dust.

Too. Much. Wind.

Yesterday was a dirty, hazy day, with no shades of winter...just more near-record
heat. And fires. And smoke. Get ready, because we're doing it all over again
today.









If high fire danger and winds gusting to near 50 are your thing, then first
of all...seek help. And secondly and lastly, you're in (bad) luck for today.
And don't forget those record high temps.





Records...HA! Big deal. What else do we need to see after the Beaver Mesonet
site beat the record for highest temp ever recorded during March anywhere in
OK when it hit 106 last Thursday (never mind this graphic, it was posted when
Beaver hit 105 and broke the record).





Also happening as we Tick, central Oklahoma is experiencing its driest ever
period since about Thanksgiving.



I mean, who knew we'd be dealing with this already,



and this, and it ain't even April yet!



But the proverbial (or idiomal?) worm might be turning (or if you're a
Shakespeare fan: "Tread on a worm and it will turn"), giving us several days
with chances of rain, and maybe a few severe storms as well, starting Tuesday
and then into the weekend.





Is it to be believed? I won't belabor the point because I've talked about it so
much, but these storms are still out over the Pacific, so let's just say we
have hopeful optimism. Remember where we were a month ago, looking at the same
amount of rain?



And such a hopeful March drought forecast (thanks mainly to that generous (or
disingenerous) rainfall forecast?



So we'll see. Have I told you before that it tends to NOT rain during droughts,
and that's how droughts work?

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

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