Mesonet Ticker for August 10, 2026

                
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I got you heat




The heat goes on.
Thermometers keep climbing all day long.
La-da-da-da-dee…
La-da-da-da-dah…

And the heat goes on…
The heat goes on.
Triple digits singing the same old song.
La-da-da-da-dee…
La-da-da-da-dah…

Before there was Tom and Zendaya, before Swift and Kelce, before...uhhhh, Lively
and Reynolds (I'm running out of couples...how about Cherry Pop-Tarts and Milk),
there was Sonny and Cher. Google it kids, it's true.

Aaaaaaand, now I can't get that song out of my head, which is fitting because
none of us can get this heat out of our head, either. That was a pretty clunky
transition, but the point remains the same: prepare for another week of this
heat wave, and MAYBE a week after that as well.







Sun comes up, it’s ninety-two,
By lunchtime asphalt melts your shoe.
Mesonet says one-oh-five,
Heat index says, “Nice try — one-fifteen.”

And the heat goes on…
The heat goes on.

And what a heat wave it is. Did you know that there it's been 44-46 days in
parts of NW OK with a high temperature of less than 90 degrees? That's like
June 25, for crying out loud!! And it's been 16 since Grandfield saw a high of
less than 100!







Lawns turn brown and ponds get low,
Rain clouds see us and yell, “Nope, gotta go!”
Drought Monitor waits for Thursday morn,
While every cornfield looks forlorn.

And the heat goes on…
The heat goes on.

We did have that nice rain and brief cooldown on Friday, which was somewhat
unexpected, but it was very scattered (but still helpful).



But the dry spell goes on largely uninterrupted as well.



And hopes for rain this week? Not bloody likely. But after that, maybe...just
maybe, the heat dome will shift east enough that we can see some rain sneak
into our northern reaches (and we all know just how painful that can be!).





But there just isn't a lot of rainfall showing up through parts of that last
full week of August.

Ya see, it doesn't rain during droughts. That's how droughts work.

So drink your water, find some shade,
And question every life choice you have made.
Fall is coming — so they claim —
But Oklahoma summer knows no shame.

And the heat goes on…
The heat goes on.

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

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