MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... MESONET TICKER ... December 12, 2016 December 12, 2016 December 12, 2016 December 12, 2016
The Arctic is open for bidness
Had enough? I know I know, most of you won't throw up the white flag and yearn for spring until we've had a good snow. HAHA!!
Good snow. Jumbo shrimp. Open secret. Controlled chaos.
Yes, I'm the king of oxymorons, whith emphasis on "moron." We've now suffered through a couple of weeks of winter after a non-existent autumn, and now I'm ready to go see that autumn! The Tulsa NWS office gives us a great display of what we're in store for this week (and the same sort of scenario that we've seen over the last 2 weeks) with this graphic:
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/nws-tulsa-arctic-setup.gif
There will be a cold front tomorrow, Wednesday and then again sometime this weekend that could have a bit of wintry weather with it (that forecast with flesh out a bit better as we get closer...but it doesn't look like a major storm system at this time).
As noted about this coming weekend when a lot of you will no doubt be cramming the malls and stores for a bit of shopping:
"Clearly there remains a good deal of uncertainty in how all of this will evolve and it is worth noting that precip type forecasting many days in advance is an inexact science. The important thing to take from this is that we should be prepared for a strong cold front this weekend and there is at least some potential for winter weather with this front. No matter which model you believe, a more direct punch of arctic air will filter into our area in the wake of the ejecting large scale trough. The latter part of the weekend and early next week will probably feel like we've been inserted into an ice box."
Hey, the weather is nothing to joke about! Oh, wait. Well, to translate their translation, it's going to be cold, colder, colder still, then get warmer, then get REALLY cold. I mean, does this wind chill forecast for Sunday morning look cold to you?
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/sunday-morning-windchill.forecast.png
I would expect highs next Sunday and Monday at the least could have trouble getting out of the 20s.
On the warm side, Newport and Burneyville had the month's highest temperature thus far at 73 degrees yesterday.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/yesterdays-highs.png
Unfortunately, all that autumnal good will was long gone this morning.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/todays-lows.png
The consecutive days with lows below 32 degrees is 14 and growing in the Panhandle, down to 6-8 days in the NW. We might wipe this map clean come Friday only to see a new streak start on Saturday.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/tmin.le32_streak.png
The other streak we're worried about might continue until March. Let's hope not.
http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/mesonet.rainfall.quarterinch.png http://ticker.mesonet.org/archive/20161212/7day-precip-forecast.gif
Gary McManus State Climatologist Oklahoma Mesonet Oklahoma Climatological Survey (405) 325-2253 gmcmanus@mesonet.org
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