Mesonet Ticker for December 5, 2024

                
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Remember




The weather is so boring that we're still doing repeats.

(Cue Johnny Carson)

HOW BORING IS IT?

Well, it's so boring that I'm predicting a 100% of yawns.

BOOOOO!!!!

How about: well, it's so boring that the Drought Monitor begged for something,
anything, to monitor.

HISSSS!!!

So I decided to update our Christmas Day weather graphic and show that, yes,
Christmas Day 2021 was still the warmest in the Mesonet record with a statewide
average HIGH temperature of 73 degrees. 73 DEGREES? Remember, we're talking
Christmas Day here, as in "daytime." Not Christmas mornings.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? For Christmas Day? Yes, 73 degrees. Remember, that came
during the warmest December on record for Oklahoma BY 5.3F!!! Yes, three
exclamation points because that's absolutely unheard of to beat a previous
monthly record by that amount, at 10.3F above normal.





Now the coldest Christmas Day (daytime highs) came back in 2000, with a statewide
average high of 27 degrees. Yuck.



Of course, even that cold Christmas Day looks downright balmy compared to
1983's ice box!



That whole month was cold, and I'm cold right now, so I'm not gonna recount it!

I do remember that 2000 period, however, and I know I've told this story before,
but that was the time my future wife and I went to go see "Miss Congeniality"
(another classic!) at the theater there at Crossroads Mall (google, kids) and
somes lady slipped in the snow and fell on her behind (she was
fine and came up laughing) and I laughed out loud...LOL'ed if you will. Well,
my future wife DIDN'T laugh, and so later on I WASN'T laughing anymore either.

The statewide average high temperature on that day was 11 degrees, though, so
that was when winters were still winter!

Okay, let's zoom to current time. Wow, you got really old! And all my hair fell
out...let's go back! To summer, too...I'm tired of winter already. Another
cold front last night has dropped us from being cold to being COLD (relatively
speaking). Look at those wind chills.



And how much we've cooled down since yesterday at this time. Well, this time as
in that time, when I wrote this. Because this time is no longer this time, it's
that time which is different from this time. It's time to move on.



At least it finally rained in the state. It might have been confined to far
southeastern Oklahoma, but it interrupted that consecutive rainless day map.





There's not a lot left on the plate there, except again for southeastern OK.



So drought stays in limbo for areas outside the SE corner of the state, which
I guess is better than at least one of the alternatives...intensifying.



Boring weather continues, other than a few ups and downs in our temperatures.



HOW BORING IS IT?

So boring I'm not even gonna give the punchline.

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

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