MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... August 11, 2023 August 11, 2023 August 11, 2023 August 11, 2023
Fryday
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230811/latest.oklahoma.heat.png
What can I say...no, seriously, what can I say? Ummmm, how about today is going to "be very bad, disagreeable, or disgusting." That's the dictionary.com definition of "suck." I didn't want to be that informal or crude, ya know. But as Samuel L. Jackson (or Samuel L. Jackson to his friends) once said about an Oklahoma summmer..."I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE 115-DEGREE HEAT INDEXES IN THIS STATE!" Hey, you can insert any expletives you want in that quote!
Heck, we might even approach some record high (actual) temps, for crying out loud! (Sorry, rainfall...I had to use that phrase).
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230811/fri-forecast-highs.png
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230811/aug11-record-highs.png
Dry heat I can handle. In fact, there's something very comforting in walking out of a highly air conditioned building into the blast furnace heat...at least for a few minutes. I *DO NOT* get that same pleasure from walking out of a highly heated building in mid-winter into the bracing cold air. That problem doesn't appear likely for Oklahoma until maybe Halloween, which is almost guaranteed to be cold. But we do have a cooldown coming Monday after a pressure cooker of a weekend.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230811/nws-norman-7day-temps.png
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230811/monday-forecast-highs.png
We will have occasional cooldowns when a front can slip through here, but the outlook for the next couple of weeks is HOT! Hopefully that heat dome will weaken and shift west a bit more and allow a few MORE of those fronts.
https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20230811/aug18-24-outlooks.png
Now it doesn't say HOW hot (or dry) that period will be, but that the odds are significantly increased for warmer than normal weather (and similar-but-lesser odds of drier than normal). But warmer than normal in August is HOT!
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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