MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016 December 8, 2016
Call another play
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/gundy.jpg
I agree with Coach Gundy. I'm cold. And for once, I'm glad I'm not in the Panhandle. You can't read the figures on that map, probably, so here it is again for your consumption...the minimum wind chills recorded by the Mesonet today.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/todays-min-windchills.png
Minus 15 in the Panhandle? Are you kidding me? That's the lowest windchill we've seen on the Mesonet since we hit -15 at Boise City back on Jan. 5, 2015! Heck, the windchills now are still in the single digits across much of the NW half of the state, and they're not much better over the rest.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/current-windchills.png
And if you're unlucky enough to be outside, but lucky enough to be out of the wind, well sorry, you're still freezing your tail end off. Actual air temperatures are down into the teens and 20s (we'll ignore far SE OK for now...they'll get theirs soon)
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/current-temps.png
after also dropping to below zero in the Panhandle earlier this morning, with teens and 20s to the SE of there. The -2 degrees recorded at Eva is the lowest reading recorded by the Mesonet since Kenton dropped to -3 degrees way back on Jan. 23, 2015.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/todays-lows.png
It could be worse...go a bit to the NW and you get windchills down into the minus teens and 20s.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/current-US-windchills.png
The Panhandle stations have been below freezing for over 40 hours now in some cases, and the rest of us for a good 12 hours or so.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/cumulative.freeze.consecutive.gif
It's a sad state of affairs considering the Panhandle was seeing temps in the 50s and 60s just three days ago. Take Eva, for instance, of -15 degrees windchill fame from this morning. You can obviously see where things (the cold front) went south for them on Monday.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/last7days-EVA.png
Also unfortunate (or fortunate, given the temperatures), this series of fronts were also dry for the most part, so this
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/last30dayspct.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/last60dayspct.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/last90dayspct.png
begets this.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/20161206_OK_trd.png
And unfortunately (again!), this
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/7day-precip-forecast.gif http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/dec13-17-precip-outlook.gif http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/dec15-21-precip-outlook.gif
begets us nowhere.
As far as temperatures go, never fear. By this weekend, we will (take it away, Coach Switzer)
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/half-a-hundred.jpg
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/saturday-forecast-highs.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161208/sunday-forecast-highs.png
Rah Rah Rah, Sis Boom Bah...GOOOOOOOOOOOO SPRING!
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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