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MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... October 12, 2023 October 12, 2023 October 12, 2023 October 12, 2023 Hold the beans https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/2023-statewide-avg-wind.png Hey, you didn't even know you were missing it, did ya? NO, no hemorrhoids. The Oklahoma wind! I remember back in May one of my neighbors (one that will still talk to me...like having a full-size statue of Ernest Borgnine in your yard should be considered offensive!) asked me "where's all the wind??" Darned if he wasn't right. We have had a distinct lack of wind since mid-spring. Take a look at another graph that shows it a bit better. Here we see the departure from the long-term average windspeed for 2023 thus far. Look at all the color BELOW the long-term average line. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/depart-statewide-avg-wind.png That's a really below-average windy spring we had there, and that carried through much of the summer. Then, as if the entire state ate Taco Bell for lunch, the wind came blasting back yesterday. And it will be here again today, with widespread gusts of 25-35 mph, but up to 50 mph in northern OK. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/latest.oklahoma.winds.gif Okay, it might not be a toot-factor...we normally see our winds kick back up in the fall as the jet stream starts meandering back our way and we start to see more cold fronts and storm systems, as shown by the black line on that top graph. Unfortunately, today's storm system is mostly dry, given the lack of available moisture for it to work with. That means fire danger will be up across western OK, especially those areas that are still plagued by drought (experts will tell ya that a drought of plague is much better). https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/latest.oklahoma.fire.gif https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/nws-amarillo-fire.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/nws-norman-fire.png Rains in the last 10 days have provided improvements across southern OK, but drought is starting to try and spread in northern OK once again. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/20231010_ok_trd.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/1week-change.png Very low chance of rain today with maybe a few marginally severe storms, so don't get your hopes up (it's easy...same thing I remind myself every morning when I look in the mirror). https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/2day-rain-forecast.gif https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/OK_swody1.png Hey, how about one last burst (and we all know just how painful that can be) of summer? We could see record highs today across western OK ahead of that cold front in the dry air behind a dryline. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/todays-forecast-highs.png https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/oct12-record-highs.png Back to fall, though. https://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20231012/nws-norman-7day-temps.png Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey gmcmanus@mesonet.org ================================================== The OCS/Mesonet Ticker https://ticker.mesonet.org/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from the Ticker or for questions about the Ticker or its content Phone or Email the Ticker Manager at OCS Phone: 405-325-2253 Email: ticker@mesonet.org --------------------------------------------------- -C- Copyright 2024 Oklahoma Climatological Survey ===================================================