Mesonet Ticker for January 16, 2025

                
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I want you...to freeze




I'm back from my conference where I presented my experiences tracking drought in
Oklahoma, but the truth is I wasn't teaching them about drought.

They were teaching me.

(OSCAR MOMENT COMPLETE)

Thank you, honestly it's just an honor to be nominated.

Now what we have to worry about is Gary Busey. Well, Gary Busey AND the massive
invasion of Arctic air from the north. Well it would be pretty darned weird if
it came from the south, wouldn't it?!?

Sometime about Friday evening or so, the first arctic front is gonna come
blasting through the state with strong winds and a sudden 20-30 degree drop in
temperatures. Then we'll get a good reinforcing shot of air later in the weekend
until nearly the entire country is below freezing right around 6am Monday morning.

If you're out in it, for whatever reason...maybe you are herding rabbits, or
changing the blinker fluid in your car...obviously the wind chills are gonna
be down in ZERO territory and should be taken seriously. Here's a bit more info
on this cold blast from our local NWS friends.







Yep, maybe a bit of snow here and there, especially across NW OK and the
Oklahoma Panhandle. Yeah, you may think that sounds weird, but YOU got to the
Panhandle and tell them they're in NW OK...see what happens! Some of that info
was above, but here's a bit more from the Amarillo NWS office.





Still 5 days out, so this will change a bit, so it bears watching. The ovious
(sorry, we can't afford all these b's) advice is enjoy the "warm weather the
next two days before winter hits the fan again.





Be afraid...I mean WARM. Be very warm.

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

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