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ZING!




Hey, speaking of Zingers (well we were last Ticker!), those of an age (i.e., old
people...you know who you/we are) remember when TV ads used to threaten you, like
the Zingers ad where peep's Zingers kept getting pilfered. Finally, a man of a
certain disposition (violent) told us "zap my Zinger and I'll move your nose to
another part of your face. Gotcha!"

And then there was the Godfather's Pizza, where an obvious underworld Don would
tell us buying a large pizza for the price of a medium was "an offer you can't
refuse. Get off your duff and buy it. NOW!"

Well of course I went and bought one...would YOU want one of those horse heads
in your bed?

What's the point of all that? Well, not a lot, but the fact of the matter is I
have been diagnosed with a near-fatal case of allergies...Ragweed as I understand
it, and I'm a bit wacky on antihistamines and lack of blood to my brain due to
coughing fits.

Now the good news is I'll live (I HEARD THAT!), but the gooder news (lack of
blood to brain, again) is that rain is coming for us all, and it should help
clear some of those allergens out of the air. The rain chances really pick up
today, and then extend through the middle of next week.

Take it, NWS friends!





That's awful sweet if you ask me, even for the "I'll believe it when I see it"
crowd. And we do need the rain, in some cases pretty desperately. We see you,
southwest Oklahoma. September (and beyond) has been a veritable dud in most
of the state, save for NW OK, and one of the 15th-driest in at least the last
100 years.







So hopefully we can reset these maps after yet another extended dry spell,
resulting in another "yet another" expansion of drought in the state.







So we definitely need the rain.

Rain? Heck, do you know what it's doing in the state right now, for crying out
loud?

It's raining, for crying out loud!



Now let's spread it across the state or I'll move your nose to another part of
your face.

Gotcha.

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

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