Mesonet Ticker for June 5, 2025

                
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Woody Guthrie approves




5 years, 10 months, and 11 days. That's how long I once waited at a 4-way stop
sign intersection in Oklahoma as all everybody stared at each other and tried to
wave each other along. But it's also how long it's been since we've been drought
free in Oklahoma.

Now here are a few important caveats to this here proclomation:

* There is still D0, or Abnormally Dry Conditions, in Oklahoma...9.83% of the
state, to be exact. That's not drought according to the Drought Monitor intensity
scale, but signifies areas either entering or exiting drought. In this case:
exiting.

* This is drought according to the U.S. Drought Monitor's "convergence of the
evidence" method. So there are probably still some drought impacts out there,
either long-term (like low farm ponds, or even lakes), or short-term (maybe
some dry soils still). But combining both the long-term and short-term impacts
of the rain in some of those suspect areas, the convergence of the evidence
according to the U.S. Drought Monitor says no drought.

* Scott Baio was a much better Chachi than he was a Charles. FIGHT ME!

So here's the rainfall that acted as the coup de grace (French to Okie
translation: the kill shot). We start back 7 months ago with the wettest
November on record, then we go through the wettest April on record, and finish
it off with an unusually wet May and first 4 days of June. For some, at least.
We're gonna start in October, though, to encompass what's known as the "Water
Year (October-September). In this case, Oct. 1, 2024, through June 4, 2025.







Nary a deficit to be found, and remember those maps include a really dry
October 2024, so whack that dry month off the posterior end and it looks
even wetter.

Okay, that's enough talk about something that no longer exists, which is the
same stance I take on my hair.

Hey, you'll be there too someday!

The prospects for keeping that drought at bay are pretty good, considering the
rains we've had this week already, AND the amount of moisture expected for the
next week as well.





Of course it's gonna come with severe weather. It's spring in Oklahoma! Why
I myself was under a tornado warning a couple of days ago, and like any
self-respecting Okie, I sent my family to the shelter whilst I watched the
mesocyclone go by to my south from my garage.

So the severe risk starts tonight out west, then we see the entire state under
the gun from west to east with the usual non-zero tornado risk.











Then we do it again Friday afternoon and evening, then again on Saturday.





As per usual this spring, flash flooding will be a major concern with the storms
overnight into tomorrow.



I don't know about you (I really don't...what's your deal, anyway?), but I'm
ready for some good old dry summer sunshine and heat!

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

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