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MUSH!
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Neighbor, how long's it been since you've had a big, thick, steaming bowl of Wolf Brand Chili? Really? Well how about you make your own, then, if you don't like Wolf Brand Chili? You know you could have turned the AC down to 68 and had some, right? Enough excuses. It does appear we're going to get our first really good COLD cold front of the fall sometime next week in the Wednesday-Thursday time frame. The above selected model output gives us an idea. I made it a wind chill forecast because WE MIGHT HAVE WIND CHILLS! You have to have a temperature of 50 degrees at the most to have wind chills. Correct me if I'm wrong, check my math, but that would mean we'd be seeing temps in the 40s. And the wind chills there are depicted in the 30s in the NW.
Lest you think this is just a NW OK thing, check out the wind chill forecast model output for 1pm next Wednesday.
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Darn, let me be the first to say it: I'm preemptively tired of the cold weather! Might (not) won't last long, but it will be a good (bad) change of pace I guess (know). And we could be in for more rain as well. A reinforcing shot of rain in the southwest would start to chip away at that drought in that area, after being mired in horrible conditions for the entire summer.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200903/sept8-12-temp-outlook.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200903/sept8-12-precip-outlook.gif
Speaking of drought, check out the latest Drought Monitor. You might have expected some more improvements across the southwest, where 1-2 inches fell.
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The real question is this...can you improve situations like this, which is considered "extreme" drought, with 1-2 inches of rain? At least enough to bump it down a notch in severity?
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I say no. We will see if they get reinforcing rainfall in the next week where we can continue improvements to the west. I know one thing, though...western Oklahoma isn't supposed to look like it's winter in late August!
This would definitely help.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200903/7day-rain-forecast.gif
By the way, I hear that chili is made in New York City.
NEW YORK CITY?
Well, sure, they just import everything in and make it there. Big deal. Get over it.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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