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Do miracles happen? Heck no they don't, and I have the scalp to prove it! Okay,
maybe no miracles for the follicularly-challenged, but REAL miracles, like Arby's
bringing back the Arby-Q (the best BBQ sandwich ever made...fight me!). So I
*guess* there's still a chance for a White Christmas. We're getting close to
Fantasy-Cast territory but seeing little evidence of a winter storm in 14 days.

So what else is new? It's not like we EVER have much of a chance here in Oklahoma,
as we've detailed before.



Like I said, even our good friend the American forecast model, the GFS, can't
give us one of it's crazy post-10 day 3-feet snows.



However, I think it was Yoda, or perhaps Martin Short, that said "There is
another." The European model...the ECMWF.



WOW, REALLY! No, not really. We have two tricks here:

1) The snow will disappear from the forecast map on its next run, and
B) That imaginary snow falls BEFORE Christmas Day.

So there. It'll take a miracle, and not of the Arby's variety.

Other than that, still looking at some rain across eastern OK coming up for
Friday and again early next week. The Restovus will just have to complain about
it on Festivus.



In fact, western Oklahoma is likely to see more fires than raindrops. Yes,
fire danger is back. Ya see, doesn't matter how wet you were previously when
it comes to winter fire danger. The vegetation is all dead or dormant, the air
is really dry, and sparks will, uhhhhhhh, spark a fire. Day-to-day weather
conditions are more important during this part of the year, vs. drought in the
warm season, for example.



Other than that, it's just really boring. The weather, that is...THE ARBY-Q IS
BACK!

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


                

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