Mesonet Ticker for November 17, 2025

                
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I don't have all the answers. Why do people stare at each other at a 4-way stop
instead of just going in order? Why would somebody rather have cigarette smoke in
their lungs than have it on their car upholstery? Why do people get to the counter
to order at McDonalds and suddenly forget what McDonalds has served for decades?

Why are we having mid-90s in Oklahoma in mid-November?



How mid is that?

Not only were a lot of those temperatures record-breakers for the day, they were
record-breakers for the month as well, per station. And that 94 at Tipton
tied for the second-highest temperature ever recorded during November in
Oklahoma! Tops are the 95s recorded by the Hollis Mesonet site back on Nov. 7,
2023, and also at Coalgate on Nov. 1, 1937, although I suspect that Coalgate
temperature was probably from Oct. 31, given the time-shift of COOP data from
that time.

Heck, we set some record high minimum temperatures again this morning!





And maybe do it again this afternoon.





And probably again tomorrow. Why? I don't know why. Because it's still summer?

Why have we gone from from 3-8 weeks without at least a quarter-inch of rain in
a single day?



Heck, why have we gone 3 weeks without at least a tenth of an inch?



Well the good news is SOME of these problems can be solved this week with
drought's worst enemy--a cut-off upper-level low pressure system--visiting the
state this week.

*Notice I said "SOME"...the 4-way stop conundrum in Oklahoma will NEVER be
solved.

You can see the hopeful rainfall amounts in the top image. Now as we have
learned the hard way over the years, those forecast amounts are not gonna be
uniform the way they look on that map. Some folks are liable to get 3.6 inches
and somebody a county away might get 0.6 inches.

Just the way it works...I don't make the rules, nor do I have the answer why.

And that's just the first in a series of systems that could bring us rainfall.
If you look through early next week. we could add to those amounts.



And even farther out than that!





And if you're tired of this record-setting warm weather, there *MIGHT* (and
that's a big MIGHT, which is why it's all capitals) be some wintry weather
around the corner right after Thanksgiving.



That's definitely getting into fantasy-cast territory, but what the folks at
the CPC are recognizing is a change in the pattern being signaled by some of
the larger-scale planetary signals showing up, which they talk about in their
message.

Now I know you're gonna focus in on that "heavy snow" part, but that segment
is definitely in fantasy-cast territory. In case it isn't evident yet, it's
been kind of tough for us to get storm system in here lately, and despite what's
coming over the next 7-10 days, that part of the pattern could persist.

In the short-term, however, we will definitely get out of this warm pattern,
at least for a few days as it rains and clouds up (no, not "clouds up and
rains"...that's just what they'd be expecting!).





At any rate, summer's about to be over. AGAIN!

We'll see it again soon, if not in December then February.

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

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