Mesonet Ticker for April 28, 2026

                
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Hey hey hey




The absurdity of life can come from just about any direction. Take Saturday
morning cartoons. No, not the ones you see now, the TRUE Saturday morning
cartoons from the 70s. Now amongst all their running around solving crimes and
irritating Old Man Withers, did you ever see Scooby Doo get his shots? I mean,
how many crimes is he gonna solve if he gets heartworm? And why didn't somebody
call child protective services on those kids in "Fat Albert" for playing in a
nasty old junkyard all day?

And what about the absurdest (absurditiest?) of the absurd...Oklahoma weather. Now
how are ya gonna reconcile more than 50 tornadoes during the first four months of
the year, including tying for the most in January and breaking the record for
March, then April going nuts...and when you hit the big month of May, the weather
just turns cool and tranquil?



Not that this is a bad thing, other than the cool weather (IT'S MAY, FIGHT ME!!),
but it's tough to get severe weather outbreaks when you're having below normal
temperatures. Not impossible, but come on. And we do have to get by today
first as things could get nasty later.









Heck, it's nasty right now for crying out loud!



When rain chances return later this week, they'll be in a cool environment, and
not packing much of a punch with us on the north side of this southerly-diving
storm. The real worry is, will the storm go too far south, leaving us high and
dry. Well, low (temps) and dry I guess.

Maybe no severe weather until the second week of May? Wouldn't that be nice?
Only if we still get rain...otherwise, bring on the storms.

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

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