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MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... September 5, 2024 September 5, 2024 September 5, 2024 September 5, 2024 Extremely Extreme https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/SW-OK-drought.png "Ravaged" is the word. No, this ain't no romance novel...there'll be no Fabio memes. That hair though!! Sigh. Wait, back to the topic at hand. Drought continues to intensify in the state, especially in SW OK where extreme drought (D3) now covers 47% of that climate division, the highest coverage since Oct. 24 of last year. Conditions have worsened over the last 2 months, and those changes aren't confined to just SW OK. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/20240903_ok_trd.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/8week-change-DM.png The improvements have been concentrated in those strips of heavier rainfall we've seen over the last month or so, but the 60-day rainfall maps show the story. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/60day-rain-totals.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/del60day_rain.current.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/pct60day_rain.current.png Heck (no, it's not raining right now...I wish!), Mangum has gone 94 consecutive days without at least a quarter-inch of rain in a single day! https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/mesonet.rainfall.quarterinch.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/mesonet.rainfall.tenthinch.png 94 days?!? Are you kidding me Private Pyle...errr, I mean Mangum?? That's 0.9 inches over the last 90 days, which looks worse than even those 60-day maps. Wait, Walters with 0.8 inches? ARE YOU KIDDING ME, WALTERS?!? https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/90day-rain-totals.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/del90day_rain.current.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/pct90day_rain.current.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/90day-stats.png We're on the cusp of seeing that Exceptional-D4 drought reintroduced to the state if'n we're not careful. And we're becoming a powder keg. Should we start getting those dry fall cold fronts with the low humidity and strong SW to NW winds...watch out. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/16inch-PAW-fire.danger.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/KBDI-fire.danger.png How about looking down from space? Easy to see from OK-FIRE's relative greenness map that our vegetation is going backwards a bit early this year, acting like it's fall already when the growing season is still going strong. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/relative-greenness.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/qdri_20240901_OK_text.png What about those rain prospects? Rain?? ARE YOU KIDD...never mind. Let's just look at the bad news and get it over with. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/7day-rain-forecast.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/sept10-14-precip-outlook.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240905/sept12-18-precip-outlook.png Yeah, that's not encouraging at all. With the late-to-the-party La Nina possibly still in the mix for later this fall and winter, that would not be good news either as that ocean-atmospheric coupling phenomenon from the Equatorial Pacific waters off the West Coast of South America tends to bring us drier than normal conditions during the cool season. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20240530/drought-concerns.png We should get the latest ENSO forecast next week, so we'll have a better idea on prospects for that La Nina possibility. Until we get rain, though, best to practice those conservation techniques and keep wildfire danger in mind as you go about your day. Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climate Survey gmcmanus@ou.edu ================================================== 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 ===================================================