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The Drought Exchange




Much like Joe Klecko's turn as a race car (van) driver in "The Cannonball Run,"
some things just don't belong (now Joe Klecko as a truck driver in "Smokey and
the Bandit"...now you're talking!).

Take the new drought area in SW OK. Please.

Heck, take ALL the drought areas in Oklahoma, along with the abnormally dry
conditions that surround them (remember, D0-Abnormally Dry Conditions is NOT a
drought intensity, that starts with D1-Moderate Drought). How can we have drought
in the state with all this rain that has fallen? I mean, if you look at at at at
(stop me before I at again!) least the last 100 years, the Panhandle, N Central,
and W Central Oklahoma are seeing the 16th, 19th, and 24th wettest such periods
in that span. And SE OK has had it's 39th wettest.

Ahhh, but those other areas of the state...a different story.



The actual rainfall maps tell the story.









Which has wrought these changes over the last 5 weeks.



Okie word of the day: "wrought," as in "Bring me my chicken fried steak wrought
now, I'm hungry!"

And guess who is forecast to get the best rainfall over the next 7 days? No,
not Bugtussle...the Panhandle, NW, and NC Oklahoma.



And past that? No, not Hominy...come on, you know.



And Joe Klecko in "Smokey and the Bandit II"?

Meh.

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

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