Mesonet Ticker for October 5, 2026

                
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Well...we're waiting!




Hey, I'm not going to complain about the inch of rain we got at my house over
the last week or so, because that would be wrong.

BUT SO IS ONLY GETTING AN INCH OF RAIN OVER THE LAST WEEK OR SO!

Okay, I was wrong. Here in Norman we received 1.02 inches.



Look at all that rain across south-central OK! Holy floodwaters Batman!

And when you look at the past 30 days, well, the winners and losers become a bit
more apparent.







Not here in Norman though...we parlayed that 1.02 inches into a whopping 1.04
inches going out to 30 days. But seriously, that's just 29% of normal over that
period, for crying out loud! And there's not a lot of rain showing up for the
next 7-10 days. Again. Stop me if you've heard this before. We definitely
dinged the drought in many places. Heck, we knocked the crap out of it in
the Panhandle and south-central OK, but we need reinforcing rainfalls before
the current rain gets evaporated out of the soils in the face of prolonged
above-normal temperatures yet again. Not September above normal temperatures
in the face of record heat for the month, but above normal nevertheless (isn't
English awesome where you can just take three words and mush them together and
say "that's a word, too!"?).

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We need more fronts AND rain. Not just fronts.

We may get nothing and NOT like it.

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

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