MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... September 10, 2018 September 10, 2018 September 10, 2018 September 10, 2018
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun (and summer), and I say it's all right.
Well, we've broken out of our semi-tropical start to September, with the dreary skies and rain, which then became dreary skies and drizzle. Just a look back at the rain over the last 10 days tells us how wet that first bit of September was.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180910/10day-rain-totals.png
As for the dreary, the statewide departure from average (2003-2017) percent possible sunshine as calculated by the OK Mesonet shows a deep, dark hole to start the month (filled by rainwater, of course...start the pumps!). We started the graph on January 1 so you could see our roller coaster year as far as clouds vs. sun thus far.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180910/Jan1-Sept9-pct-sunshine.png
A statewide map of the individual station data is pretty telling as well, with a statewide average of 39% possible sunshine over the month's first 9 days.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180910/Sept1-9-pct-sunshine.png
In fact, that's easily the "darkest" first 9 days of September since the Mesonet's inception back in 1994. It's only 9 days, but that's a long time for Okies to go without decent sunshine in early September!
Now that we've had all that muggy-but-mild weather, we can use some sun to start greening things up and drying some of that moisture out. The mosquitoes are on their way as we speak! We'll now see lots of sun which will help with that, and temperatures are on the rise. We should see a lot of upper 80s and low 90s by the end of the week, which is very seasonable for this time of year, if not a bit above normal.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20180910/friday-forecast-highs.png
Mother Nature pulled a fast one on us, literally, by having the wet stuff come the week BEFORE the State Fair. So what's in store for State Fair weather?
Fair to partly fried.
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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