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An absence of normalcy




If you want abnormal, you've come to the right place.

Whoa! Wait a minute...note to self, pitch a new slogan to Taco Bell executives:
"If you want abnormal, you've come to the right place."

That's gold, Jerry! GOLD!

But really, the abnormalcy (work with me here) comes AFTER you go to Taco Bell,
right? And remember, that top map is AFTER it actually rained again in the
Panhandle.



Which reset this nasty map.



But we still have a great disparity (hey, A Great Disparity was my band's name
when I was an astronaut) in rainfall roughly along the I44 corridor, but those
better rains bleed up into north-central OK. To the north and west of I44 in
general though...really bad (hey, all of my many bands have been really bad,
which is why I'm a climatologist now).





And speaking of great disparities, this is why we end up with the Panhandle
having it's 5th-driest March 1-May 6 in the last 106 years, but NE OK had its
35th-wettest.





And also why we have western OK looking like the moon right now, with lots of
fire danger.







So what are we gonna do about it? Well, we're gonna up the storm chances over
the next few days.





But with not much rainfall coming from those storms (but better than nothing!).



But the real hope comes later next week and early into the next when we see
those odds of above-normal rainfall increase.



At this point, we'd even take a bit of abnormally normal rainfall!

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

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