MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022
Dirty Twenties
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You can sugarcoat just about anything, I reckon, including rainfall stats. For instance, we COULD have led with the ~ 1-inch of rain that fell last night in Boise City overnight.
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Are you kidding me, Boise City? You think you're Broken Bow? You think you're Idabel??
Want to hear something crazy?
Okay..."dfkoeamf ofcoaf oea foogo ldcmn cmweurwr!!"
Now how about something REALLY crazy?
Okay, over the length of this flash drought (that's now just a drought), since June 11, Boise City has the 9th highest rainfall total of our 120 Mesonet sites. Now Sallisaw leads the way with 10.24 inches (5.92" which came on July 21), but here's something even more MORE crazy...Kenton is 6th with 8.82 inches!
Are you kidding me, Kenton? You think you're Mt. Herman? You think you're Boise City...errrr, Talihina??
Here are some of the ranking of highest and lowest over this here flash drought.
-***- Highest Lowest Sallisaw 10.24" Ada 2.45" Waurika 9.97" Okemah 2.43" Jay 9.72" Stuart 2.35" Tahlequah 9.07" El Reno 2.26" Pryor 8.95" Holdenville 2.15" Kenton 8.82" Foraker 2.02" Woodward 8.29" Sulphur 1.77" Ringling 8.09" Seminole 1.57" Boise City 7.88" Tishomingo 1.48" Westville 7.77" Centrahoma 1.40" -****-
1.4 inches, Centrahoma? Are you kidding me? You think you're Slapout? You think you're Eva?
See for yourself.
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What is this Bizarro Oklahoma where the Panhandle and SE OK have switched places? And who is it gonna shock the most? What will the Panhandle do with all those trees?
Have you seen the Panhandle's tree, by the way? It's right outside of Beaver on the west side of town. Lovely.
Wait, does this mean that Lake Optima will finally fill up? Somebody better go mow it real quick.
Now for SE OK, are you really ready for daily winds running from 40-70 mph, and even worse on non-calm days?
Now what does all this mean? Well, it means I need help. Serious help. But it also means...we need rain, and lots of it. Over the course of 120 days or so, we've seen dryness the likes of which haven't existed in our state over that particular time frame, like, ever! Or in at least the last 100 years or so.
Maybe our luck is changing?
There is rain starting to show up on the 7-day even more so than we've seen over the last couple. Heaviest rains in the Bizarro Panhandle, of course.
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Things get a bit iffy from there, as they always do, with a cutoff low over the Desert Southwest giving forecasters fits. It does appear like we'll see our first wetter-than-normal weather regime in place next week for the first time in over a month, as indicated yesterday.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20221005/oct10-14-outlooks.png
With "cutoff low, forecaster's woe" in mind, let's take the hope and not the pessimism going forward. One thing we do know?
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20221005/saturday-forecast-highs.png
REAL fall is coming this weekend. And it might stick around for awhile.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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