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MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... October 4, 2023 October 4, 2023 October 4, 2023 October 4, 2023 Ruh Roh! https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/todays-severe-threat.png Yes, ladies and gentlemen (and most of the rest of you heathens, scoundrels, and ne'er-do-wells), it's one of THOSE days in Oklahoma. One of those days where you wake up in the morning and ask Mother Nature for some eggs (rain) and toast (cooler weather) and she gives you yak snout (large hail) and gator toenails (75+ mph winds), with a small side of granulated buzzard saliva (tornadoes) thrown in. Still hungry? Yeah, me either. The rain will be welcome, of course, although the flooding threat isn't too appetizing either. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/48hour-rain-forecast.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/nws-norman-flood-threat.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/nws-tulsa-flood-threat.png We've gotten SOME rain with storms overnight, but not that great thus far. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/rainrfc.24hr.png Those totals should continue to creep up because heck, it's raining right now for crying out loud! https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/Oklahoma.MosaicBREF.png Now here's the secret to today's forecast that NOBODY else will talk about, except every other meteorologist in the area...but NOBODY else besides everybody else. What? Never mind. The secret is the ongoing showers and storms have a chance to foul things up, with "foul things up" making things either better or worse, and "better or worse" can mean lots of things too, and I'll bet I can unnecessarily continue to lengthen this sentence, but the weird thing is you are still reading it, but okay you can stop now, no I said stop now, fine, don't then. So this is a day you'll have to pay close attention to the updates to the forecast from your local NWS forecast office and your favorite local media source. One thing far from uncertain is the cold front that has already entered the state and now lays...lies...lay (pick one that is grammatically correct) across NW OK, as you can see in the temperature and wind fields. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/current.TAIR.grad.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/current.WMAX.grad.png And you can see from the larger view what's in store for us with lots of cold fall air moving in behind it. The coldest air will hold back until the weekend with a reinforcing cold front moving in Friday. Of course it will, because why stop with yak snout and gator toenails, Mother Nature? How about some mole-rat kebobs as well?? Here's a helping of winter for Saturday morning. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231004/sat-morning-lows.png Check please! Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org ================================================== The OCS/Mesonet Ticker https://ticker.mesonet.org/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from the Ticker or for questions about the Ticker or its content Phone or Email the Ticker Manager at OCS Phone: 405-325-2253 Email: ticker@mesonet.org --------------------------------------------------- -C- Copyright 2024 Oklahoma Climatological Survey ===================================================