MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... August 10, 2020 August 10, 2020 August 10, 2020 August 10, 2020
Winter's march
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/winter-march.png
To quote Hudson from "Aliens": "EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO (WINTER)...GOING DOWN!" Except he didn't say "winter." And just like with Hudson in the movie, things end poorly for us (i.e., we end up in winter). But that Mesonet long-term avg. graph isn't how it actually works around here. Generally we stay about 106 until October 3, then we hit 28 on October 4, go back up to 93 until sometime in November, then we have 2 days of winter in December, and then tornadoes.
Now coincidentally, we've scheduled our day with low humidity for Sept. 23 this year, so put that on your calendar. I'll try to get you the 3 days left this year when the winds will be below 30 mph as well.
In other words, climate is the script, but the actual day-to-day weather is Mother Nature's ad libs. This is what ACTUALLY happened with high temps so far this summer.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/summer2020-actual.vs.avg.png
I'm not gonna annotate these, but here you can see how our humidity starts to plummet along with the temperatures through the rest of the year (this portion of the Ticker brought to you by ChapStick), and as the jet stream starts to dip back down to our neck of the woods and we start to get those marauding cold fronts, the avg. wind speeds start to pick back up. Just in time for wind chill madness!
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/statewide-avg-max-windspeed.png
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/statewide-avg-max-dewpoint.png But for us, for now, for awhile, for posterity, for your weather pleasure, just plain old hot and humid summer weather, give or take a severe storm or two. Not much variation, at least not yet. Maybe getting a tad cooler, but still seasonably hot.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/todays-forecast-highs.png
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/latest.oklahoma.heat.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/day1otlk_1300.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/day1probotlk_1300_wind.gif
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/day1probotlk_1300_hail.gif
Not much rain on tap, but that will change eventually.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20200810/7day-rain-forecast.gif
Ticker over, man. TICKER OVER!
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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